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Symphonies for the devil: are video game theme tunes the new classics?

Royal Scottish National Orchestra to perform Super Mario Brothers soundtrack By Jasper Hamill

FEW could have predicted that the bleeps and bloops of early video game music would become classics for a nostalgic generation reared on Nintendo or Sega - even fewer that they would one day be performed by symphony orchestras to audiences of 20,000 people.