❌Monthly Song Challenge: Archived🎵

Day 9: A song with a choir
Who's the biggest nerd in Sweden, you ask? Why, that'd be Orvar Säfström, of course!

When I was a kid, still in Stockholm, we had a soccer field at our school. We'd spend our afternoons there, playing ball, chatting about everything and nothing. Those are the places where friends are made. It just so happened that this field was on the path home of Orvar, a decade-and-some our senior and a budding journalist at the time with his own show on Z-TV (the cool channel on TV) where he reviewed nerdy stuff. Comics, games, movies, that sort of stuff. We loved his show.

Every day we'd see him walk by. Every day we'd shout hello. "Tjena Orvar! / Tjena ungar!" He never ignored us kids, some times he stopped to play ball with us, some times he chatted with us about the stuff on his show. He always took the time for his tiny fans. He's just a really awesome dude.

Fast forward quite a bit, and he started making one of his dreams come true; he wanted to put on a symphonic live show featuring his favorite music from nerd culture. It took a metric fuckload of work and stringpulling, and some not insignificant personal cash investment, but he did it. And it was a huge success. SCORE/SAGAS was born, and it's been going strong for 10 years now.

Featuring soprano Sabina Zweiacker, the Royal Swedish Philharmonics and their choir, Orvar Säfström presents game music, fantasy music, nerd music. I've caught a few of these concerts, and they are always epic!

Orvar Säfström presents
The Rains of Castamere


Unfortunately, licensing this music is a bit iffy, so not all shows have official recordings.
Thankfully, amateur footage is very high quality these days!
 
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