Excellent news for our Windy City readers. Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer behind the soundtracks to Chrono Trigger and Xenosaga is going to be performing some of his works for the national PLAY! concert series in Chicago on May 27th.

As usual when Japanese men are held in deific awe by Westerners, the producer of the event uses the painful Miyage-like "Mitsuda-san" honorific to identify the accomplished game composer. That's okay, we've all made jerks of ourselves when gushing about artists we love. Quoth PLAY!'s producer: "To have Mitsuda-san come to the US for our premiere in Chicago is a dream come true. My hope is that the fans will come out and show their appreciation for the distance he has traveled to celebrate with us."

We hope so too... game composers are all too often overlooked as accomplished musicians. Any venue that allows their works to be appreciated by a larger audience thrills us. Go buy a ticket and show Matsuda he's appreciated if you're in Chicago in late May.

Yasunori Mitsuda's Music Joining PLAY! [1UP]

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