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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Live It Out , Canada The union of popular music with a symphony orchestra is neither new nor particularly shocking. Bands have been exploiting this juxtaposition for years with results that usually manage to both intrigue and alienate -- film director and San Francisco Symphony benefactor Francis Ford Coppola famously walked out on the orchestra's overwhelmed performance with Metallica. But the combination of Canadian musical wunderkind Final Fantasy (AKA Owen Pallett ) and Symphony Nova Scotia [...]