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# The Orchestra Lamoureux takes a break from Debussy to do Uematsu
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/orchestra-lamoureux-takes-break-debussy-do-uematsu/
- Published: 2013-01-15T16:44:12.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:43:05.000Z
- Description: The Orchestre Lamoureux was founded in 1881, and as Simon Parkin points out, premiered Debussy’s Nocturnes, as well as his seminal La mer. The French orchestra also does a damned fine version of Nobuo Uematsu’s “One Winged Angel” (From Final Fantasy 7), as Parkin describes in his wonderful piece abo
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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The Orchestre Lamoureux was founded in 1881, and as [Simon Parkin points out](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/jan/15/final-fantasy-classical-music-paris?ref=killscreen.com), premiered Debussy’s *Nocturnes*, as well as his seminal *La mer*. The French orchestra also does a damned fine version of Nobuo Uematsu’s “One Winged Angel” (From *Final Fantasy 7*), as [Parkin describes in his wonderful piece](http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/tickets?ref=killscreen.com) about a performance of the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert series in Paris:

> In here \[conductor Arnie\] Roth has found the Final Fantasy series’ spiritual centrepoint, one that the games have moved away in recent years, much to the angst of fans. “Sephiroth!” is a reminder of the passion that brought the crowd here tonight, transporting them en masse to a younger place, where the games did the things they wanted to, where Sakaguchi, like a father, would never leave them, where everything would stay the same and be just as exciting within and despite its constancy.