Video game music has evolved dramatically over the past thirty-some years to the point where it’s become a completely legitimate musical art. It’s also become a viable way to encourage and teach music education.
Remember the guy from the previous video? This week, he’s off the piano bench and onto the conductor’s podium to conduct the concert band arrangement of “Video Games Live – Part I” with a high school wind symphony. He’s just a student teacher in this video, and apparently that’s the real band director making a surprise cameo in the Halo movement (composed by Marty O’Donnell and Mike Salvatori). Other movements include music from Civilization IV (“Coronation” and “Baba Yetu” composed by Christopher Tin) and Kingdom Hearts (by Yoko Shimomura).
