News for Aug. 02, 2005

LOTR Symphony: Nashville

8/02/05, 7:04 pm EST - Xoanon

The Lord of the Rings Symphony is a musical journey into the realm of Middle Earth that calls to the stage more than 200 musicians and vocalists. Of the work, one writer for The New Yorker said, “[Composer Howard] Shore manages the admirable feat of summoning up a Wagnerian atmosphere without copying the original…Shore’s musical opus is every bit as impressive as Tolkien’s literary one, standing on its own as a sweeping, operatic experience.” [More]