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Music for Video Games – The Japan Connection
Paul Chihara
Paul Chihara is Professor of Music Theory and Composition and Chair of the Composition Area at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also an accomplished composer for both the concert hall and for films, who studied with Nadia Boulanger, Ernst Pepping, and Gunther Schuller. His compositions have won numerous awards and have been played by notable ensembles around the world, and he has also written several groundbreaking ballets including Shin-ju and The Tempest. In addition, he has composed scores for nearly 100 feature films, including films by Sidney Lumet, Louis Malle, and Hayao Miyazaki.
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Description: Paul Chihara, Professor of Composition at UCLA, discusses the new respect for video game composers that has arisen in the past few years, and the roots of video game music in the music written for Japanese animated features such as the films of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).
Shoot Date: November 2007 |
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