You snooze, you lose
From RPGamer:
On Friday, March 5, tickets for Nobuo Uematsu's concert "Dear Friends," the first Final Fantasy symphonic concert to be performed in the US, went on sale. The event, scheduled to be held on May 10th, sold all 2,200 seats of the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Monday, March 8, and not unexpectedly - the concert coincides with E3, so there will be an abundance of gamers in the Los Angeles area at the time.
Er, guess I should have mentioned that a bit earlier. . .
Well, I imagine they'll record it. Possibly. Maybe.
Square has to make the money back from the Final Fantasy film somehow, after all. Can't see their cut for their sequence on The Animatrix being that much. . .
Update: Well, think you can still RSVP for the East Current performance here, though:
East Current, a duo featuring koto player Mieko Miyazaki and shakuhachi player Dozan Fujiwara, performs in the Claudia Cassidy Theater of the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St., on Monday, March 15 at 6pm. East Current brings traditional Asian music into the twenty-first century by fusing classical Japanese instruments with modern and Western musical styles. Together, Miyazaki and Fujiwara create a new interpretation of classical, traditional, folk, and even tango music.Mieko Miyazaki graduated from Tokyo University of Fine Arts in 1992. She composes pieces for popular TV programs and commercials in Japan and is also an "imaging" artist for various anime productions. Miyazaki tours extensively throughout the world, playing with a variety of diverse musicians. She continues to create new music and is now considered to be one of Japanese music’s most innovative performers.
Dozan Fujiwara studied shakuhachi under Yamamoto Hozan. A graduate of Tokyo University of Fine Arts in 1995, Fujiwara participated in the International Shakuhachi Festival held in Boulder, CO in 1998, and regularly collaborates with Western musicians to record modern pieces.
Link to Mieko Miyazaki's site added; quick Google didn't bring up one for Dozan Fujiwara.
Er, your browser/OS may try to install Japanese fonts when you hit that link.
Oh, go for it. Couldn't hurt, might help.