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Mark writes: I just got my weekly newsletter from XM radio and Howard Shore will be featured on this week’s “Reel Time Weekly” on CInemagic, their film score channel. I know he’s no longer with Kong, but it may get mentioned during interview.

Reel Time Weekly: Howard Shore
Cinemagic – XM 27 – 11AM – 5PM Midnight ET
Chris Panico talks to Academy Award Winning composer Howard Shore about working with long time friend David Cronenberg, the start of his musical career with the band Lighthouse, and the 4 year journey he took in creating the music for Middle Earth.

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David scoops me in that a recent online chat with Alan Lee at houghtonmifflinbooks.com had him saying that the issue of the Hobbit movie is “when” and not “if”. Read the entire thing here! [ Posted in:

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HIGHLAND HILLS — On Thursday, November 17 at Cuyahoga Community College’s Eastern Campus, Tri-C professors Laura Blunk and Marueen Morley will deliver a lecture titled “Storytellers for Our Times: J.R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.” The presentation, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King and the forthcoming film of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, will take Place in the President’s Plaza of the E-3 Building at 4250 Richmond Road in Highland Hills from 6 to 7:15 p.m. [More]

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Bob writes: My family and I went to the Spokane Symphony’s LOTR concert last night ( Nov. 12th), and came away with a (for the most part) very enjoyable experience. While not exactly matching the scope and depth of the original score for the movie, the Spokane Symphony made up for it in feeling and expressing the music — it still had all of its glory and majesty intact. The Spokane Symphony Chorale and Spokane Area Children’s Chorus were excellent, Kaitlyn Lusk outstanding, under the heart-felt control of conductor Alastair Willis. [More]

UPDATE: Another report was submitted by gloryliberty, thanks!

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The Collegiate Chorale and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s perform excerpts from Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle (and the Flying Dutchman) and Movements I and II – “The Fellowship of the Ring” – from the Lord of the Rings Symphony under the direction of Robert Bass. [More]

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Sure, Peter Jackson directed the fellowship of the Ring and has a shot at three Oscars this year — for directing, producing, and adapting the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. You could say the guy’s arrived. But you probably couldn’t say much about the rest of his oeuvre, as the 40-year-old Kiwi’s previous work wasn’t exactly mainstream. Here, Jackson talks about his oddball early efforts. [More]

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