Gondowyn writes: Christopher Lee will make an appearance in Amsterdam on September 9th at the music theater “Concertgebouw”. Lee will join conductor Jules van Hessen and the Dutch Theater Orchestra in a LOTR concert. The concert will feature parts from the LOTR score, but also LOTR music composed in 1978 by Leonard Rosenman and musical adaptations of Tolkien poems. He will be performing as ‘storyteller’ in Johan de Meij’s “LOTR symphony”, and will recite “Treebeard’s song” which he recorded earlier with the Tolkien ensemble. [concertgebouw.nl]
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aragornwriter writes: This is taken from a Belgian newspaper: Howard Shore prefers Belgian Radio Orchestra for score “The Aviator”. After eight executive days of hard work, the Flemish Radio Orchestra has finished taping the score for “The Aviator”, the new movie of the renowned director Martin Scorsese with Leonardo diCaprio. The music is from multiple Oscar winner Howard Shore, who also composed the music for “The Lord of the Rings”. Shore personally directed the recordings that took place in Leuven, Belgium. [More]
WllmWhtng writes: The American TV show The Amazing Race just went to New Zealand in the last episode, and contestants went Zorbing (a New Zealand adventure sport) down the hills of the Shire at Matamata Farms. Unfortunately the US Open will keep the show from repeating on Saturday evening.
Peter Jackson’s special effects shop Weta Digital has teamed up with Telecom subsidiary Gen-i to establish a world-class supercomputing facility in Wellington which will be rented out to clients worldwide. The New Zealand Supercomputing Centre, which launches today, ranks 80th on the list of the world’s 500 most powerful computers and is the largest supercomputing cluster available for commercial hire in the southern hemisphere, according to the firms. [More]
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Starz Encore Group LLC (Starz) and DIRECTV, Inc. are offering an exclusive free movie weekend to all DIRECTV customers from 9:00 p.m. ET on September 17 to midnight ET September 19. Actor Billy Boyd, who starred as Pippin in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, will be hosting the event. Starz is the exclusive pay television home of all three “The Lord of the Rings” movies. [More]
A lost letter from Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has turned up in the North East. The hand-written note explains some of his thinking behind the novels which have won a new generation of fans after their film successes. The letter turned up on TV’s Antiques Roadshow when it was recorded in Haltwhistle and the hand writing was recognised by expert Liz Merryis. [More]