Eminence Speaks!

What a hectic two weeks it has been, and i have barely had the time to be able to write about the whole concert preparation period. So we had the 2 Sydney concerts last weekend and they seem to have gone pretty smoothly. I have only just returned from Melbourne (back to Sydney), and I have to say this Melbourne concert has been the best concert Eminence has ever put on in its entire history. I can safely say this because i have been with Eminence since the day it was formed. From both an audience perspective and especially an operational perspective, this has been one hell of a great concert. Sometimes even the simple change of MC (master of ceremonies) can make a world of difference to a concert.

There's still a great deal of work to be done post show, especially with media people, video editing, clean up, and not to mention working on our next Eminence concert. I can't give any details as to what it is right now. Perhaps it is the Anime Edition. I can not confirm this as of yet, but obviously its a safe guess considering we just had a gaming concert. As far as smaller concerts go, i have no current details as to when or where it will be at this time.

I cant wait to see the photos that the Eminence photographers have taken, and not to mention an edited recording of the concert.

Having met the 7 guest composers has been a most interesting experience. Each one is so unique and different, and each one brings a different personality to the table. Hopefully some of my associates will send in their photographs of the social times we had with the guests. Unfortunately i lost my digital camera for the past 2 weeks, so i couldnt take any myself.

Hmm, i think im going to play a little WoW (haven't played in like 3 weeks now). I'll have something more interesting for you soon.

LATE EDIT: I also have to announce that the Passion CD album was also released at this years ANIF07. This is our highest quality recording to date featuring the songs performed at last years Passion concert. I have been told that the Passion CDs have been a total sellout, so do what you can to try and grab a copy today.

Shiina san, one of ANIF 07's guests arrived in Sydney on Sunday. I had the pleasure of meeting him on Sunday night as me, Hiroaki, Bing (Eminence's PR and marketing person) Shiina san and Kameoka san (another guest, and also performing organist for the concert) went to Max Brenner on Oxford St, Paddington for some chocolately dessert. Shiina san is one hell of a funny and great guy. Despite our inability to communicate (his broken English and my non-existant Japanese) with each other, we both see eye to eye on the important things in life, like girls for example. Only good things of course. Naturally.

So today, Shiina san and Kameoka san went to the Easter Show. I am very impressed that they managed to get out to Homebush by themselves considering English is virtually non-existant between the two of them, aside from their electronic translator. From what i gathered having dinner with them tonight, they really enjoyed it, checked everything out including the smelly animals and prize-redeeming games. No show bags though. Oh well.

Well, it's almost concert time, 3 days to go. Unbelievable, it's really upon us, and we're all so stressed out with the work we all have to do to prepare for it. I've visited some of the management team in the past few days, and they are just flat out exhausted but they continue on like machines because there is no choice but to get the work done.

As you know, the Eminence Symphony Orchestra was contracted to perform the music for the Studio GONZO anime Romeo X Juliet. There is now a promotional video on the Romeo X Juliet website that features the music of the Eminence Symphony Orchestra. I've watched it, and I am impressed at the both the quality of the anime art and the music performance. This anime has recently begun airing on network television in Japan.

You can check out this trailer at: http://www.romejuli.jp/g_move640_2.html


Also, on our own A Night in Fantasia 2007: Symphonic Games Edition flash website, you will find that there is now some background music. We have been fortunate to have Mr Hitoshi Sakimoto compose an exclusive mini-piece for use on our concert website.

You can find this here: https://www.eminenceonline.com/anif07/

It's not a huge move, but i've been forced to disable comments and the shoutbox because of the annoying spammers. I am thinking if there needs to be comments, we can have a dedicated thread in the forum, and there can be a direct link at the end of each post. Hopefully there will be more news that will ellicit more comments.

In actual relevant Eminence news, we are a little over 2 weeks to concert time, and many of us are hard at work preparing for it. Currently we're rushing ourselves in finalising the concert program booklet, which we hope should be an interesting read.

We are also trying to negotiate some international tours some time later this year as well. These details can't be disclosed but we're hoping for positive results.