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Video game composer and the man behind \u201cVideo Games Live,\u201d Tommy Tallarico is bringing his show to the Bold City with the Jacksonville Symphony<\/a> on September 19. The show features Tallarico and the Jacksonville Symphony playing iconic music from popular video game franchises. Tallarico sat down with WOKV\u2019s Chase Bunker ahead of the show to talk all things \u201cVideo Games Live,\u201d reviewing video games, and playing older video games today.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all of the greatest video game music, played by a full symphony and choir, but synchronized with video… and big video screen, rock and roll lighting, stage show productions. So I kind of describe it as having all of the power and emotion of a symphony orchestra, but combined with the energy and excitement of a rock concert. So it\u2019s a real kind of full celebration of the video game industry and the art and the music behind it,\u201d says Tallarico on describing \u201cVideo Games Live\u201d to those who are unfamiliar with it.<\/p>\n Tallarico says the show started 23 years ago with fellow video game composer Jack Wall. \u201cWe put it together initially, and everyone thought we were nuts. \u2018Who would go to see a video game concert?\u2019\u201d says Tallarico, reminiscing on the concert\u2019s origins. \u201c\u2019People who go to the symphony don\u2019t play video games, and people who play video games don\u2019t go to the symphony, so no one\u2019s going to show to your dumb thing.\u2019 But you know, we believed in it so much. We put everything we had into it. All of our time, energy, resources, money, whatever. We did our very first show ever at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic, […] and they\u2019re like \u2018you\u2019re lucky if you sell over 500 tickets,\u2019 and over 11,000 people showed up to that first show, and all of a sudden we\u2019re not that crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n Tickets for \u201cVideo Games Live\u201d are on sale now<\/a>. Check out the full interview<\/a> to see if Tallarico regrets giving a game a certain score when he was a critic and hear Tommy and Chase talk about their love for the 2003 game \u201cBeyond Good & Evil.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more local news from WOKV<\/a><\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Video game composer and the man behind \u201cVideo Games Live,\u201d Tommy Tallarico is bringing his show to the Bold City with the Jacksonville Symphony on September 19. The show features Tallarico and the Jacksonville Symphony playing iconic music from popular video game franchises. 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