Nobuo Uematsu's Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy concert tour will reportedly be arriving in San Francisco on March 7th for the 2005 Game Developers Conference. In addition to the concert taking place in Nob Hill's Masonic Auditorium, where conductor for the North American Dear Friends tour Arnie Roth will conduct the Symphony Silicon Valley, the legend Uematsu himself will be available for a VIP Meet & Greet after the performance. This concert will be the third in the North American series, following the May 10, 2004 Los Angeles performance and the upcoming February 19 Chicago event.
I eagerly await the next report of some orchestra member dissing Uematsu's clich?d tunes and making the games industry music development and growth out for "immature" and "amateuristic". Woo!