Ian writes: I thought you might find this interesting as I am sure that there are many New York University students who are fans of this site. Flight of the Conchords (Jemaine Clement and Brett McKenzie aka Figwit) will be performing in a FREE taping of HBO One NIght Stand at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. IT IS ONLY OPEN TO NYU STUDENTS. They will be performing on Friday April 22nd. [More]
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Celebrating their 100th anniversary, Hydro invites the people of Oslo to Hydro’s Centennial Festival in Frognerparken on Saturday, August 27. This is a big event, and a-ha will be the main attraction. This is the only a-ha concert in Norway before their European Tour, and the first time people will have a chance to hear new material from the forthcoming album. Other features at the festival include the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra playing Howard Shore’s music from the film Lord of the Rings , with Sissel Kyrkjebx as soloist. [More]
Lord of the Rings producer and scriptwriter Fran Walsh is to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Victoria University at its May graduation ceremonies. The Academy Award-winner graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the university in 1981 and has supported the university’s scriptwriting programme by making scripts from her movies available to students, the university said in a statement. [More]
TORONTO – When it’s your full-time job to do impressions of characters in Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings, it’s hard to find appropriate places to hone your noisy craft. So it was that for Charles Ross — whose One-Man Star Wars Trilogy and One-Man Lord Of The Rings play the Harbourfront Centre World Stage: Flying Solo fest next week — Gollum was born in a truck in Chicago. [More]
Johnny Depp isn’t the only swashbuckling adventurer coming our way this year as Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen has left Middle Earth in favour of a life on the high seas. And King Aragorn had no trouble finding his sea legs when he got to work on the historical epic Alatriste in which he plays a heroic Spanish soldier. With a long moustache and a bandana wrapped around his head, the handsome actor bore more than a passing resemblance to Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates Of The Caribbean. [More]
Concert ticket prices are $21-$56. Tickets are available at the Houston Symphony Customer Service Center, 615 Louisiana, by phone at (713) 224-7575 and online at www.houstonsymphony.org [More]