Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience
WARNING: GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS
Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi is touring with an orchestra, bringing the music from show to cities around the country. Since the show is taking a year off before the final season in 2019, I figured this would be the perfect way to hold me over until then.
I was wrong about that.
The performance was absolutely amazing. I was blown away. But all the footage they showed just reminded me how many feels this show gives me, and made me want to go home and immediately start over from the beginning again. Which is a serious commitment. Rewatching Game of Thrones is something I would need a full week with no other plans to do.
Djawadi announced after the initial performance of the theme song that he had just found out THAT NIGHT that he had received an Emmy. That’s amazing. And he definitely deserves it.
Orchestras are really cool. I don’t think I give them enough credit/appreciate them enough, but it was such a cool experience watching all these different musicians come together to make something pretty monumental.
Leading different songs were a violinist (I loved her), a cellist, a vocalist, a pianist, guitarist, and one guy who played some strange instruments I had never seen or heard of before in my life. I know an Armenian dudek flute was one of them, but there were a bunch more that I could not tell you what they’re called. One instrument just sounded like someone screaming. It was… well, strange, but also really cool.
They played the themes for different characters while scenes from the show played on a big screen behind them.
They played the entire Jon+Ygritte storyline, which just made me sad, and the entire Red Wedding, which made me REALLY sad. I honestly kinda forgot about some of these characters because they’ve been so long dead in the show already. Daenarys yelling “Dracarys” was accompanied by fire shooting onstage, which was AMAZING.
A lot of cool things happened onstage. There was a rising section of the stage that lifted some of the soloists, and there was a choir that followed the lead vocalist at one point and circled around her. During a battle scene, there was smoke rising out of the stage.
The second half of the show was mostly scenes and music from season 7. We saw Hodor becoming Hodor, Cersei blowing everyone up, and the Battle of the Bastards.
SO GOOD. Jeez I forgot how much I miss this show. And obviously, the music is killer too.
The last song was yet again the main theme song, but the musicians were featured on the big screen, and Djawadi told us to sing along this time.
Before the lights turned on at the end of the night, they played an “In Memorium” video which was kinda hilarious. It just kept going and going and going. So many characters have died. They even named a bunch I didn’t really recognize because they weren’t that important. It went on for at least three or four minutes if not longer.
