How do you get to Radio City Music Hall? Practicing isn't enough. You need to write the score to a film trilogy that gobbles up more Academy Awards than a Gollum eats fish.
Howard Shore's music for Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings trilogy won three Academy Awards, four Grammy, three Golden Globes and probably a free lunch or two at some Tolkien-themed convention somewhere. Now, the music for the first film in the set is coming to New York’s Radio City Music Hall with the breathy title of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring- Howard Shore’s Complete Score Live to Film." I suppose if Tolkien didn't care about how long his titles were, the producers of the concert event shouldn't either.
The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ludwig Wicki will welcome vocalist Kaitlyn Lusk with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and The Collegiate Chorale. The musicians and singers perform the film music live, set to the film's images projected on a massive high-def screen (above).
When you consider the Star Warsfolks are touring the nation with their own similar set-up, it looks like this is becoming a new concert genre onto itself.
Hobbits and Orcs will invade the realm of the Rockettes for two nights only -- Friday, October 9 and Saturday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Image courtesy Theradiocitylotrconcert.com
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