Addendum to Column #1

Now that I am finally up and posting on the blog, I will try to start adding the extra information that wouldn't fit on each column I've written so far.

This is the addendum for my first column on Nobuo Uematsu - I think some School of Music students rightly thought I didn't substantiate my claim that his works are similar to compositions by Verdi and Mussourgsky. What I originally wrote was that the opera "Draco and Maria" from Final Fantasy VI seemed highly reminiscent of the style and tone of a Verdi opera, and that Sephiroth's theme, "One-Winged Angel," from Final Fantasy VII, could almost be a note-for-note recasting of Mussourgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" - I am referring especially to slurred tritones in the French Horn part on both pieces. Since I perceived those pieces to be among Uematsu's most popular works, I think I was justified in saying what I did. I'm sorry I couldn't be more specific, but apparently space is limited in the newspaper business. I will be adding more information for other columns shortly.