PLEASE NOTE: All Kitchener dates are sold-out

The Guild of Canadian Film Composers will present a fascinating discussion on Howard Shore’s Academy Award winning music with three distinguished panelists: Genie award-winning composer and President of the Guild of Canadian Film Composers, Christopher Dedrick; Howard Dyck, CBC host of Choral Concert, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera, and Artistic Director of the Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic Choir’s presentation of The Lord of the Rings Symphony and Doug Adams, author of The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films. The “trialogue” will take place at 5:30 p.m. prior to the evening performance of The Lord of the Rings Symphony in the South Lobby of Roy Thomson Hall, Sunday, June 5, Toronto.

“Music is responsible for over 30% of an audience’s response to a film. There is no more exciting example of the profound support music gives to film than Howard Shore’s score for The Lord of the Rings films,” said Christopher Dedrick. “This will be a rare opportunity to look beneath the surface and see how such a score is created and performed.”

The Lord of the Rings Symphony is Howard Shore’s compilation in six movements of his two-time Academy-award winning score for the popular and epic movie trilogy based on Tolkien’s internationally beloved fantasy novels.

Panelist Christopher Dedrick received a 2004 Genie Award for his score for Guy Maddin’s film The Saddest Music In The World starring Isabella Rossellini. He received critical acclaim for the score for the CBC Television miniseries, Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion; and a new Rhombus Media feature, Childstar, directed by Don McKellar. He is the arranger and composer for the world-renowned Canadian Brass. Howard Dyck, CBC host of Choral Concert is the conductor of the Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic Choir and has prepared the Choir for these performances of Howard Shore’s music. Author Doug Adams is a Chicago-based musician and writer. His new book, The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films will be published in the fall of 2005. He has regularly appeared on panels with Howard Shore.

Admission to A Trialogue On The Trilogy – The Music of The Lord of the Rings films is free with tickets to either concerts at Centre in the Square or Roy Thomson Hall and for GCFC members.

The Guild of Canadian Film Composers is a national association of professional composers and music producers for film, television, and new media. The Guild’s purpose is to further the interests of its members with respect to Canada’s cultural industries and agencies, film producers and music publishers.

Toronto: Roy Thomson Hall
Sunday, June 5, 2005
2 pm and 7 pm
Ticket prices: $45 – $85
Roy Thomson Hall Box office: 416-872-4255
http://www.roythomson.com/boxoffice.cfm
or through Ticketmaster 416-870-8000
http://www.ticketmaster.ca or at all Ticketmaster outlets

Trialogue on the Trilogy — The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films
Sunday, June 5 – 5:30 Roy Thomson Hall Admission free with tickets to either Toronto/Kitchener performances

Principal Sponsor Kitchener: DALSA Corporation
With support from Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund and Ontario Trillium Foundation.

The Lord of the Rings Symphony concerts in Kitchener and Toronto are produced by John Cripton and Linda Sword, Great World Artists.