Daniel “Frodo” writes:
Yesterday’s concert of Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony was a resounding success and M. Shore was greeted with much applause prior to the performance. Despite a weak rendition of Gollum’s Song and Into the West the concert was a wonderful experience of a lifetime. Of particular note was the Bridge of Khazad-dum, The Breaking of the Fellowship, The White Tree, and The End of All Things. The 200 musicians and chorists performance was exceptional. Also heart wrenching was the performance by Soprano Ying Huang. The crowd showed its appreciation with a standing ovation and 3 curtain calls and Howard Shore was presented with flowers.
The concert was recorded for later broadcast on the Canadian cable networks Bravo! and ARTV by Montreal director Pierre Siguin, without question one of the best in Canada. Rumours are that this recording will end up in the DVD boxed set of the trilogy to be released in 2005.
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Neyuki writes: Sunday at seven was the start of the Orpheus ball. The parade didn’t end up getting there until about 8:30 or 9:00, though. When Elijah’s float came in, it was pretty obvious he was having a blast. He was grinning and throwing stuff. When the parade was about halfway over, he came walking down the parade isle and was giving people hugs before going up into the VIP stage area. When the parade was done, I saw a couple friends who said he had been talking to Dominic Monaghan and asking where he was.
When Dominic got there, my friends and I were the first ones he saw, and he gave us one of his smiles that I think anyone would die for. We all snuck up into the VIP area, which wasn’t very hard, and got hugs and pictures. I also got an autograph from Dominic. Elijah was very busy, so we didn’t get to see much of him, but Dominic was being really sweet and talking to everyone. Elijah’s sister Hannah was there too, and she was lovely. While up there, I got the promise of a dance from Dominic. We got found out and kicked off by the security guard, but after a while Dominic came down. We stopped him and and asked him to bring up our medallions for Elijah to sign, and got more pictures. He went up with them. We waited for a while and he finally came back, but said they were still on the table, then went to bug Elijah to sign them for us. A minute later he was back, up on the VIP stage, and dangling the medallions over my head. He also promised then that I could have my slow dance the next day at Orpheus. When they were leaving I got a hug from Elijah and said bye to Dominic.
The next day was the Orpheus ball. My little sister came with me to that, and we were in the first level of VIP, but there were two. Once the parade came by, I yelled at him, and he saw me. He recognized me and grinned, then threw some beads at me, which the person next to me caught. I introduced him to my sister when he came up. Later, when Better Than Ezra was playing, he went up and sang while they played for one song. It was wonderful and I got some pictures of it, cause I knew a short bit beforehand about it. My dad’s cousin runs the ball, so when he got back from stage, now in street clothes, we got wristbands and got to go up to the second VIP level. I got my dance from him. We had to leave pretty soon after that, but he gave us both hugs and kisses. I must say that Dominic Monaghan has to be one of the sweetest people I have ever in my life met.
I’ll try to get you the pictures in a bit. I’m going to pick them up in about twenty minutes from being developed, then I’ll see about scanning some, and try to take some digital pictures of the medallions with autographs. Oh, and from what I saw, Sean Astin was not in fact in Bacchus, and if he was, I somehow completely missed him for the entirety of the ball, which I doubt.
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Didi writes: I just thought you might want to post the program schedule for the “The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Choirs” for those who were lucky enough to get tickets.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Movement One
The Prophecy – Concerning Hobbits
The Shadow of the Past – A Shortcut to Mushrooms
The Old Forest – A Knife In The Dark
Movement Two
Many Meetings – The Ring Goes South – A Journey in the Dark
The Bridge of Khazad-dum – Lothlorien – Gandalf’s Lament
Farewell to Lorien – The Great River – The Breaking of the Fellowship
INTERMISSION (about 10 to 15 minutes)
THE TWO TOWERS
Movement Three
Foundations of Stone – The Taming of Smeagol
The Riders of Rohan – The Black Gate is Closed – Evenstar
The White Rider – Treebeard – The Forbidden Pool
Movement Four
The Hornburg – Forth Eorlingas
Isengard Unleashed – Gollum’s Song
THE RETURN OF THE KING
Movement Five
Hope and Memory – The White Tree – The Steward of Gondor
Cirith Ungol – Anduril
Movement Six
The End of All Things – The Return of the King
The Grey Havens – Into the West
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Those Ringers that will be in the LA-area this weekend and still have a hole in their schedule on Saturdaynight: here’s what Q-Beam from the highly entertaining hip hop crew The Lord of the Rhymes wrote in to tell us:
For anyone traveling to LA from out of town or just looking for a way to get psyched up for Sunday’s Return of the One Party, come join fellow Tolkien lovers this Saturday night at The Echo in Echo Park.
The Lords of the Rhymes will be performing their first ever west coast show for all those who are not able to attend the Sunday night extravaganza hosted by TheOneRing.net. The evening begins at 8pm and features a DJ set by LA’s own DJ Gothmog the Troublemaker (from the Hollyrock Crew of Angband), live video projections of Bakshi’s LOTR animation and scenes from the Lords’ own behind-the-music mocumentary, as well as a coronation of the King of Orange County, Gondor, a gollum ring toss game, a special guest appearance by the Witchking of Angmar, the Grey Pilgrim on the turntables and of course a set by the Lords of the Rhymes.
Following the Return of the One Party, the Lords will head up to San Francisco for a Monday night show.
Saturday, February 28th
Los Angeles
Live at the Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd., Echo Park
phone: 213-413-8200
Doors : 8pm
Tickets: $7 – on sale at www.ticketweb.com
Monday, March 1st
San Francisco
Live at the Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, The Mission
phone: 415-552-7788
Doors: 9pm
Tickets: $7 – on sale now at www.sunsettickets.com
Don’t miss it!
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Georgia band Emerald Rose, headline musical act at the “Return of the One Party” at the American Legion Hall in Hollywood on Oscars night, will release a new Enhanced CD: “Songs for the Night Sky” produced especially for this event. The CD will include five brand-new recordings, three previously released tracks, original artwork by fantasy artists (and party sponsors) Lindsay Archer (www.lindsay.archer.name) and Monte Michael Moore (www.mavarts.com), and the band’s first music video, “Urania Sings.”
Party attendees will receive a free copy of this CD as part of their souvenir bag. The CD is a limited edition run, and will only be available at the party, directly from the band, and for a limited time through the band’s website at http://www.emeraldrose.com/. A more complete CD with additional tracks, intended for commercial distribution, will be available in late spring.
Emerald Rose now has tracks from their album “Bending Tradition” available through Apple’s iTunes store! The direct link is:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=4284784!
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Hi,
Have you heard about a DVD soon to be released called “Bogans?” It’s made in New Zealand… the story line is about 3 Bogans who want to be in the film of Lord of the Rings.
It runs just over 20 minutes long. The director was Grant La Hood. The writer was Peter Tait… who got to play Shagrat in the film. Several other actors… Ian Hughes and Stephen Ure… made it into the film as well.
There’s a website that’ll soon be up and running that’ll tell more about the project. It’ll be sold through Real Groovy out of New Zealand. Even P.J. makes an appearance himself.
Cheers!
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