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Indigo 7 quest of love3/16/2023 ![]() More: Off Hours: Celebrate the perfect birthday with cookies, cakes, shakes - and a few banned books, too It's an enthusiasm shared by his own children who immediately recommended the music of "Hollow Knight," a video game that takes cues from the "Castlevania" games Wedgeworth watched her own kids play back in the day. “I poll them for suggestions of video game music and my inbox is flooded." "I poll (my students) on repertoire they want to perform and I get one or two notes in my inbox," he said. That's part of the reason he planned to organize a video game-centric concert even before Barker reached out to him. The importance of this music for Govias comes not only from community interest in the music but because he knows it's music his students are passionate about. I own an Xbox One and I just finished the legendary edition of 'Mass Effect.'" "I have not engaged with this repertoire so far. “This has been an education for me as well," Govias said. It was only just a few years ago that he returned to the hobby. Govias played computer games like "Kings Quest" and "Quest for Glory" when he was younger. Over the course of watching her kids play she came to know the music of games like "Super Mario Bros." and "Castlevania," the latter of which has a song called "Riddle" that she's still a fan of. More: 35 Des Moines area events for fall of 2022, from 'Book of Mormon' to the Indigo Girls I would sit there and watch them play for hours.” "Both my boys love video games and it was our quality time when they were kids. ![]() On that day, me and my brother tried to play and we couldn’t get past the first screen,” said Wedgeworth, a central Iowan who started playing flute 54 years ago and has been with the Gamer Symphony since 2019. ![]() “On Christmas Day of 1990, the boys got their first Nintendo. I could just never hold still when I heard it," Baker reminisced.įor Valarie Wedgeworth, video game music also has a nostalgic quality, despite the fact that she hasn't done much more than dabble in the medium. “I have a distinct memory of taking the soundtrack from 'Super Smash Brothers Melee' and putting it in my mom’s boom box and running back and forth. For Baker, video game music has been a love of his since age five. ![]()
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