Nintendo fansite N-Sider has a nice thick article about the Play! video game symphony, with interviews with Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, and Chrono Trigger/Cross composer Yasunori Mitsuda. While the drooling fanboy style of the article is a trifle irritating, the attention to detail and commentary on the audience enthusiasm are good stuff.

At or around this point, whenever Roth would approach the microphone after each song to introduce the next piece, fans from the audience would yell "ZELDA!" Roth had to meet it with "nope, not Zelda," and "not yet!" This time, after Silent Hill, Roth approached the mic and said something to the effect of "our next song is from a game that has been played and enjoyed by millions worldwide, and developed an extreme following," and one crazy fan off in the upper balcony yelled "TETRIS!" and sent most of the theater into a fit of applause and laughter.

The interviews address the basic who-knows-who stuff, and touches on current and future projects (Uematsu is busy with Mistwalker Studio's "Blue Dragon"; Mitsuda has a new CD on the way). The interviewer also asks about Uematsu's rock band The Black Mages, which has a new album out soon. Eliza Gauger

Review and interviews here [N-Sider.com]

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