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The Video Games Live music event will be making its way to Yale University at the end of this month. On Saturday, March 31st at 8:00pm at Yale's Woolsey Hall, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by a full choir, will perform the music of Video Games Live with synchronized video footage, a light show, special solo performers, electronic percussion, and more. This performance will mark the first time a university has performed the show, or any other symphonic video game music for that matter.

The show will also include special events on Friday, March 30th, including a free video game industry education panel, which will be open to the public. Entitled “Video Games – Past, Present and Future”, the panel will be held from 3:00pm to 5:00pm in Sudler Hall and will consist of industry veterans Seamus Blackley (XBOX creator, game designer, CAA), Lorne Lanning (OddWorld Inhabitants), Hal Halpin (IEMA, ECA) as well as Video Games Live creators and industry composers Tommy Tallarico (Earthworm Jim, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Metroid Prime) and Jack Wall (Myst III, Myst IV, Jade Empire, Mass Effect). There will also be a pre-show festival in Yale's Commons Dining Hall from 6:00pm until just before the show starts. The pre-show festival will include a costume contest, playable games, interactive music demos by Cakewalk, Intel computers, an Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) info booth and a variety of game competitions, including Guitar Hero II and Halo 2 being hosted by Connecticon.