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 Shores musical opus is every bit as impressive as Tolkiens literary one, standing on its own as a sweeping, operatic experience. [More]