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Vinyl In Motion

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:37:00 +0000

TORN Chat!

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:50:00 +0000

Return of the Symphony

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:49:00 +0000

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

June 14, 15 & 16, 2018

https://www.winspearcentre.com/tickets/events/eso/2018/the-lord-of-the-rings-symphony/

Featuring the ESO and 150 voices from the Kokopelli Choirs, The Lord of the Rings Symphony takes you on a musical journey across Middle-earth. Academy and Grammy Award-winning Canadian Composer, Howard Shore’s masterpiece echoes the influence of Strauss, Liszt, Smetana and Sibelius.

Alex Prior, conductor
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Kaitlyn Lusk, soprano
Members of the Kokopelli Choirs

Five LPs to Rule Them All ...

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 22:57:00 +0000

Get yours here:
5LP: https://rh-ino.co/lotr5lp
3CD+BluRay: https://rh-ino.co/lotr3cd

The Music of Howard Shore: October 7 at Salle Pleyel

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:50:00 +0000

October offers a stunning assortment of Howard Shore's classic scores (including music from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit!) live in concert in Paris, France. Click HERE for more information.

Chicago Symphony at Ravinia

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 18:23:00 +0000

Tap, tap, tap ... is this thing on?

Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings scores are coming to Ravinia on August 18, 19, and 20. I'll be there each night signing The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films in the gift shop. Come on by, if you please!

https://csosoundsandstories.org/one-orchestra-to-lead-them-all-the-cso-takes-on-lotr-trilogy/

Pittsburgh Symphony: The Film Music of Howard Shore

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 28 May 2016 13:33:00 +0000

The Film Music of Howard Shore Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra World Premiere:
THE HOBBIT FOUR MOVEMENTS FOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

June 24, 2016 – June 26, 2016 at Heinz Hall Special Guest Howard Shore

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concludes another spectacular Pops season with a one of a kind evening: an audience with the Academy Award-winning composer Howard Shore. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra celebrates the outstanding career and achievements of a true icon, with performances of his best known scores and live interviews by acclaimed film music writer Jon Burlingame, with the composer from the stage. Audiences will thrill to the music from his legendary scores to The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the world premiere of music from The Hobbit with scores from his films: The Aviator, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Silence of the Lambs, Hugo, and many more.

This is an epic evening filled with amazing music and the composer’s own insights. A unique experience not to be missed!

June 24 at 8:00 pm
June 25 at 8:00 pm
June 26 at 2:30 pm

Buy Tickets: 412-392-4900

http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/Shore

FOTR in Moscow

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:00:00 +0000

20 April Wednesday - 19:00

For the first time on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace - Lord of the Rings. Concert. 250 people on the stage, symphonic orchestra and 2 choirs! The famous composer and conductor Howard Shore together with the director Peter Jackson have created a truly unique show – Lord of the Rings Concert, based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. The soundtrack to the movie brought the composer three Oscars, four Grammies and three Gold Globes.

The Tales of the Middle-earth is a chronicle of the Great war for the Ring, the war that lasted for thousands of years. The one who owned the Ring, received the power over all live creatures, but was obliged to serve the evil. The quiet village where hobbits live. The wizard Gandalf, having come to the 111th birthday of his old friend Bilbo Baggins, starts conversation about a ring that Bilbo found many years ago. This ring belonged once to the dark master of the Middle-earth Sauron, and it gives great power to its owner. Now Sauron wants to return the power over the Middle-earth. Bilbo gives the found ring to his nephew Frodo who tries to learn to cope with that terrible power, which the ring gives …

Every action is followed by music! The charming, loud, quiet, nervous, intense melody accompanies every character. The large-scale show with all the unexpected turns is developing on the stage and the main character is music. It takes the spectator on the tracks of the mysterious world, it reveals secrets, it acquaints us with characters of the trilogy. Thanks to virtuosity of the composer, the listener will plunge into another world, the world of adventures, friendship, danger and even of darkness and evil. 250 people on the stage – the Symphonic orchestra and 2 choirs help to immerse into the world of fantastic travel and to wander the footpaths of other worlds.

The show participants: Symphonic orchestra of Moscow "Russkaya Philormoniya", the Mixed choir of the Academy of choral art of V. S. Popov, the State chorus of the Moscow regional philharmonic hall, Chorus of boys of the choral school of A.V. Sveshnikov.

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FOTR in Istanbul

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:15:00 +0000

2 April, 2016 - 3 April, 2016

Main Theatre / Classical

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

Composer Howard Shore brings J.R.R. Tolkien's literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Shore's music expresses Peter Jackson's film as an immense symphonic work—a uniquely developed vision drawn from centuries of stylistic tendencies.

The music of The Lord of the Rings is counted among film music's most complex and comprehensive works. This unique performance sets the score to the film, but allows the music to bear the narrative weight, creating a wholly new and dramatic live concert experience.

Shore's score not only captures Fellowship's sweeping emotion, thrilling vistas and grand journeys, but also echoes the very construction of Tolkien's Middle-earth. Styles, instruments and performers collected from around the world provide each of Tolkien's cultures with a unique musical imprint. The rural and simple hobbits are rooted in a dulcet weave of Celtic tones. The mystical Elves merit ethereal Eastern colors. The Dwarves, Tolkien's abrasive stonecutters, receive columns of parallel harmonies and a rough, guttural male chorus. The industrialized hordes of Orcs claim Shore's most violent and percussive sounds, including Japanese taiko drums, metal bell plates and chains beaten upon piano wires, while the world of Men, flawed yet noble heirs of Middle-earth, is introduced with stern and searching brass figures. In operatic fashion, these musical worlds commingle, sometimes combining forces for a culminated power, other times violently clashing…and always bending to the will of the One Ring and its own ominous family of themes.

The music's vast scope calls for symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, boys chorus and instrumental and vocal soloists singing in the Tolkien-crafted languages Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzdul, Adûnaic, Black Speech, as well as English. Original folk songs stand alongside diatonic hymns, knots of polyphony, complex tone clusters and seething, dissonant aleatoric passages. It is purposeful, knowing writing, as contained in execution as it is far-reaching in influence; for within this broad framework resides a remarkably concise musical vision. Shore's writing assumes an earthy, grounded tone built on sturdy orchestral structures and a sense of line that is at once fluid yet stripped of frivolous ornamentation.

Orchestra: Filarmonia İstanbul
Conductor: Ludwig Wicki
Soprano: Kaitlyn Lusk
Boys Choir: İstanbul Senfoni Çocuk Korosu
Boys Choir Masters: Gökçen Koray & Seval Irmak
Adult Choir: Rezonans Senfonik Koro
Adult Choir Master: Burak Onur Erdem

Click HERE for info and tickets.

Locarno

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:30:00 +0000

Howard Shore
The composer of images

From the soundworlds that shaped almost every one of David Cronenberg’s films to the fantasy thundering of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, ranging through the musical punctuation of thrillers like The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) and Seven (David Fincher), the pursuit of sparks of rock music in High Fidelity (Steven Frears) or the accompaniment to the hypnoses and bizarre hiccups of Ed Wood (Tim Burton), without forgetting all those incursions into genres that arose out of the collaboration with Martin Scorsese, from the mechanical tick-tock of black comedy (After Hours) to the epic score of The Aviator to the fantastical sighs of Hugo… These are just some of the greatest examples – among the many available – of how a soundtrack can never be reduced to a secondary filmic element, to a side dish, when it has been scored with the creative touch of a composer like Howard Shore. He has the rare gift of being able to insert the music directly into that process of world-building that lies at the base of a film. And it is because of this gift, put to the service of a long series of great directors, that the Festival del film Locarno is paying tribute to the great Canadian composer and conductor.

This is the latest continuation of a journey that Locarno is dedicating to those figures who have shaped the history of cinema with their insight and skill. After the tributes to the special effects of Douglas Trumbull (2013), Mr Steadicam® Garrett Brown (2014) and sound designer and editor Walter Murch, the upcoming 69th edition will turn the spotlight on Howard Shore. Born in Toronto in 1946, his musical career has not been limited to the movies, though it is at the cinema that it has found its maximum resonance. This is clear not just from the welcome recognition represented by a total of three Oscars (Best Original Score in 2002 for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and in 2004 for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when he also won the award for Best Original Song for Into the West, performed by Annie Lennox). What should be noted most of all is the significance and impact his compositions have had on the invention of the most diverse auteurial universes, with that versatility that can move musical horizons in order to combine them with the image in a way that is always stimulating and never unambiguous. And if there was ever need of more examples, we can go back to where we started from: the substantial filmography of David Cronenberg, with whom Shore began working back in 1979, with the science-fiction horror The Brood. The dystopian future ruled by television violence in Videodrome (1983) would never have found its anguished density without the sinister and metallic reverberations that infect its soundtrack. The same can be said for the horror-like suspense that musically accompanies the bodily transformations of a scientist into an insect in The Fly (1986). Cinematographic voyages that merge with Ornette Coleman’s saxophone as they delve into the hallucinated mental explorations of Naked Lunch (1991), or veer towards the disturbing electric cords of a guitar that creates the sound landscape of the erotic collisions between cars and bodies in Crash (1996). And so on, up to the more noir and dramatic styles of Cronenberg’s most recent productions (Eastern Promises, Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars), also characterized by Shore’s music, because the ear can also lead us to the edges of other types of mental abyss. As always for Shore, he discards any kind of didactic shortcut, instead setting himself the task of sculpting, note by note, the invisible heart of the world in which everything takes place.

Lorenzo Buccella

Hail, Columbia

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:16:00 +0000

Happy Halloween!

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 12:22:00 +0000

51st Chicago International Film Festival: An Evening with Howard Shore

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:11:00 +0000

51st Chicago International Film Festival: An Evening with
Howard Shore from Cinema/Chicago on Vimeo.

Chicago International Film Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:21:00 +0000

Chicago Film Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:59:00 +0000

I may be present at this ... ;)

#HowardShore to appear following a screening of HUGO at the @chifilmfest! Full sched here: http://t.co/A8yY0w5Lb8 pic.twitter.com/Wn2wcHUOBs
— Doug Adams (@DougAdamsMusic) September 21, 2015

Future Tense

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:29:00 +0000

A recent appearance on the Modern Musician podcast, and a tiny glimpse of things to come. Listen in right HERE.

Gratitude

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:49:00 +0000

Telling Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:46:00 +0000

Another podcast appearance. This time, Tom Racine's Tall Tale Radio. Enjoy!

Tracksounding

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:23:00 +0000

I'm happy to have been invited to sit in on the Tracksounds Podcast again this year to talk about Howard Shore's work on The Hobbit. Enjoy!

The Movie Bit

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:49:00 +0000

Great interview with Howard Shore on The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Maps To The Stars, Rosewater, his new Guitar Concerto, and much more!

Just Wait Until the Music's in Place ...

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:10:00 +0000

Deluxe in Teal

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:29:00 +0000

I really should have posted this soon, but it's been one of those months. Here's the cover for the Deluxe Edition of Howard Shore's remarkable score to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The color scheme is teal this time out ... or blue-green. Aquamarine? I'm not sure what the official name is, but I am sure that you're going to love it!

Battle Front

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:21:00 +0000

LOTR Lincoln Center

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:14:00 +0000

THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Academy Award-Winning Scores By
HOWARD SHORE Performed Live to the Motion Pictures
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, SOLOISTS
21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Ludwig Wicki, Conductor
250 MUSICIANS ONSTAGE BENEATH A GIANT SCREEN
David H. Koch Theater
LINCOLN CENTER, NEW YORK TWO TRILOGIES – APRIL 8-12, 2015 Week to Include Forums and Additional Events
#LOTRinConcert

NEW YORK, NY — For the first time in North America, the complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings will be presented live, in concert, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, April 8-12, 2015. Beneath a giant screen, the Academy Award-winning scores by Howard Shore will be performed by 250 musicians, on stage, including symphony orchestra, chorus and soloists, in two trilogies, Wednesday-Friday, April 8-10, and Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12. The production is created by CAMI Music, and follows acclaimed concert presentations of the first two films of The Lord of the Rings trilogy at Radio City Music Hall (2009 and 2010).

The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, at Lincoln Center, features the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of Lucerne, Switzerland, conducted by Ludwig Wicki, which specializes in bringing films and their scores to life, and performs an annual program of film concerts at the KKL Luzern. Soloists and chorus for the 2015 trilogy performances at Lincoln Center, as well as related forums and other events, will be announced at a later date.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Trilogy In Concert LINCOLN CENTER – April 8-12, 2015

The epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), The Return of the King (2003) – directed by Peter Jackson and based on the beloved J. R. R. Tolkien novel became an international phenomenon. Released by New Line Cinema, the trilogy is among the highest earning films of all time, and won a total of 17 Academy Awards. Howard Shore was honored with Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score for The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) and The Return of the King (2004), and for Best Music, Original Song for Into the West, featured in The Return of the King (2004). Since 2008, more than 200 presentations of individual films of The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, have taken place in cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, was presented in Lucerne and Munich in 2011.

Howard Shore commented on the meaning of this North American premiere presentation of the trilogy, in concert: “It was fascinating to watch the performances of individual films of The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, at Radio City in 2009 and 2010. For those events, people came from all over the world: Scandinavia, Europe, the Far East. The book has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted a global fan-base. But the fan community doesn’t often have the opportunity to come together in person and coalesce around a performance like this at the highest level. The trilogy at Lincoln Center is unique and something powerful happens – a synergy is created – in bringing together the music, live on a massive scale, with the films, in a magnificent house, and not only for one night, but presented over the course of a week. To bring the trilogy to New York is meaningful as it’s a center of the cultural world, and Lincoln Center is at the heart of New York. It’s the perfect place to play the Trilogy in its entirety. We hope that everyone who travels from near or far will feel they’ve arrived at a kind of contemporary, cultural Middle-earth.”

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE TRILOGY I
Wednesday, April 8, 7:30pm Thursday, April 9, 7:30pm
Friday, April 10, 7:30pm
TRILOGY II
Saturday, April 11, 1:00pm Saturday, April 11, 7:30pm Sunday, April 12, 1:00pm

The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers
The Return of the King
- more -

THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Trilogy In Concert LINCOLN CENTER – April 8-12, 2015
TICKETS, PACKAGES AND PURCHASE INFORMATION
Individual tickets begin at $59. Trilogy packages are $240 for the Hobbit Package and $400 for the VIP Gondor Package, including:
VIP GONDOR PACKAGE
VIP Trilogy Ticket
Post-Concert Shire Reception*
Ticket to LOTR at Lincoln Center Symposium Event* Commemorative Program Book Signed by Howard Shore HOBBIT PACKAGE
Premium Trilogy Ticket
Post-Concert Shire Reception*
Commemorative Program Book Signed by Howard Shore * Locations and additional information to be announced
Tickets and packages are available online at davidhkochtheater.com, by telephone at (212) 496- 0600, or at the David H. Koch Theater Box Office. The David H. Koch Theater is located at the south side of the Lincoln Center Plaza at Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street.

LOTR2015

noreply@blogger.com (Doug Adams) — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:54:00 +0000