{"id":549187,"date":"2006-06-15T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549187-video-games-go-classical.html"},"modified":"2006-06-15T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T12:14:49","slug":"video-games-go-classical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549187-video-games-go-classical.html","title":{"rendered":"Video games go classical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Performed by a full orchestra and choir, &quot;Play!&quot; features music from well-known computer games such as &quot;Final Fantasy&quot;, &quot;Super Mario Brothers&quot; and &quot;Sonic the Hedgehog&quot;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Tickets sold out as rapidly as for performances of established classical scores,&quot; a spokesman for the Stockholm concert hall Konserthuset, Toni Lundman, said. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Play&quot; is conducted by Arnie Roth of the Chicagoland Pops Orchestra. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;This spectacular concert attracts people of all generations to some of the world&#8217;s greatest concert halls,&quot; according to a statement from Roth on the Konserthuset website. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Graphics on large screens suspended above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The &quot;Play&quot; tour began in Chicago on May 27 and is currently touring Europe, before moving on to Asia, South America, Australia and New Zealand. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games are not usually considered fine art, but the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was due to perform a symphony composed of music from blockbuster video games to a sell-out crowd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}