The full Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring Radio City Music Hall website is now live! Visitors are now welcomed to the website with the booming voice of Gandalf himself, Sir Ian McKellen, and are encouraged to sign up for newsletter updates!
Andrea and Robert from www.badtaste.it send this in: Hi, just wanted to tell you we met Howard Shore during a public speech yesterday in Rome, before a Lord of the Rings Symphony performance at Auditorium Parco della Musica.
He answered a few questions about The Hobbit: he’s composing music for the movies, and he said that as we all know, there’s a new director, but Guillermo Del Toro wants people feel these movies are part of the trilogy. So, especially when you’ll see the second Hobbit movie, you are going to feel a strong continuity with the Fellowship of the Ring – even musically. Obviously, there will be new compositions and a lot of different things, but they are going to establish a strong connection between the movies, thanks to characters like Bilbo and the Dwarves.
During my association with TheOneRing.net I have often felt very fortunate to know great people and be in great places. Sometimes I have been lucky enough to have my camera along.
Out of that vast TORn photo library that includes digital images, and old scratched negitives, I put a few images together with some music from Arjan Kiel, (with thanks to fan film ‘Born of Hope,’) to pay tribute to the whole community of TheOneRing.net.
Click on the small triangle to play and to see the best fullscreen version, click on the box at the far right.
Doug Adams sends along word that The Official Radio City Music Hall LOTR Concert website is now live! Take a look at some stunning images from the recent concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, news updates and more! www.TheRadioCityLOTRConcert.com
Jazmine writes: It is two days since I saw the London Philharmonic Orchestra perform the soundtrack live to the movie, and I’m still pretty awestruck by the whole experience. I spend a lot of time at various live music events, and every so often one I find something that moves me more than most. This was one of those occasions. Continue reading “Howard Shore LOTR Concert in London Report”
The producers of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Live to Projection are pleased to announce that two free Pre-concert Discussions will precede the London premieres of this epic work. Composer Howard Shore and Doug Adams (author of the upcoming book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films) will discuss Shore’s work on The Lord of the Rings, in an engaging look at the project’s history and its myriad of compositional details.
Free Pre-concert Discussions with Howard Shore and Doug Adams The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Royal Albert Hall Tuesday, April 14 & Wednesday, April 15 6:15 to 6:45 p.m.
Lord of the Rings Radio City Music Hall Website Now Live! FOTR Weekend in New York City: October 9–11, 2009