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]
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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]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS SYMPHONY
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Tickets to go on sale at 10:00 a.m. May 16th
The Houston Symphony performs Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings
Symphony.
Friday, July 8, 2005 7:30 PM Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
Saturday, July 9, 2005 7:30 PM
Alastair Willis, conductor
Houston Symphony Chorus Charles Hausmann, director
Houston Children’s Chorus Stephen Roddy, founder and director
Kaitlyn Lusk, lyric soprano
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 houstonsymphony.org
Join the Houston Symphony for a musical journey into the realm of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, featuring more than 200 musicians and singers, with large original illustrations projected above the Jones Hall stage. The images will be projected on a gigantic screen hung above the orchestra and will chronologically align with the music as the story of the Hobbits’ journey from the peaceful Shire to the dreaded land of Mordor unfolds.
“This Lord of the Rings Symphony is a two-hour piece based on the 12 hours of music I wrote for the three films,” says Howard Shore. “Each film was a four-hour composition. And this new symphony takes a concert audience through the story of the Lord of the Rings in a narrative way, using the choirs, using the singing.” The choruses will sing in “Elvish,” and musicians will play such instruments as Norwegian fiddles, Japanese drums, African flutes and Tibetan gongs.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Houston Symphony are offering a family package that includes four rear orchestra level tickets to the symphony concert and four passes to the The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy: The Exhibition ? all for $189. To purchase this package you must call the Houston Symphony Customer Service Center at (713)224-7575.
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Scott in Toronto writes: I wanted to report that the Harbourfront Centre’s Premiere Dance Theatre in Toronto, Canada is presenting Charles Ross in his “One Man Lord of the Rings” show on April 28, 9 pm and April 30, 4 pm. The address and phone number of the Premiere Dance theatre is as follows. [More]