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Old 04-17-2004, 10:09 AM   #1
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Well, yesterday was the premiere of the lotr symphony on the European mainland, and I was there!
It was absolutely wonderful, very moving, and the ovation Howard Shore got afterwards was overwelming.
Apparently Tolkien's great grand son was invited as a special guest, which was surprising, according to the newsbulletin here, because Tolkien's familiy wasn't too happy with the movies.

I would suggest anyone to go, if the show is near your place.
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Old 04-17-2004, 11:59 AM   #2
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Mariska, do you know anything about further European performances? Is there perhaps an internet site with information? I'd love to know if it will be near here...
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Old 04-18-2004, 07:15 PM   #3
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Well Estelyn, you can go on www.howardshore.com

They currently have a list of all the upcoming performances (European and North American), and links to where you will be able to get tickets. The one that I assume Mariska attended is the one that was just in Belgium on the 16th.

I hope this helps
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Old 05-22-2004, 05:53 PM   #4
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Question Chicago?

Does anybody know whether the Symphony has come to Chicago yet? I'm hoping it hasn't because I think it's fairly likely that it would come there, considering the city's size. I live around 3 hours away from Chicage and my dad has promised to take me and my brother to see the symphony if and when it comes there. Does anybody know anything about how expensive it might be?
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Old 05-24-2004, 02:35 AM   #5
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To all those Brits who are thinking of seeing Howard Shore and the LPO perform the LOTR Symphony, grab a ticket for the royal albert hall performance on Bilbo and Frodo's birthday. I got the news from Ian Smith's website.

The symphony is amazing. Saw it yesterday at the royal festival hall. too many high points to list here (and the only low point was that they didn't play the piece where fordo and sam are climbing up mount doom) but it has now given me even MORE of an appreciation of the music. It's stunning to watch Howard and the LPO perform. You can see they are working their socks off.

The singers were very good, (although the missus didn't like aragorn's replacement, and I admit he was a bit too baritone but still good), but the thing that held us all was the atmosphere. There was clever use of alan and john's drawings that we've seen on the EE DVDs. And it's intersting that the pictures they have used do not give the plot away of what happened in the book. (as if anyone there had not read the book or seen the film.....!). The symphony does not go over repeated ground (accept for the main 'theme tune'), I was at first dissapointed not to hear Evenstar in the LOTR part, but of course it cropped up in the TT part. The final last 'tracks' were extremly well performed, from 'The End of all things' down to the last part after 'Into the West'. The standing ovations were well earned.

To add to all this, I managed to collar Brian Sibley in the interval for a few seconds to thank him for his BBC radio adaptation that I've grown up with.

Beg, borrow (but don't steal!) to get a ticket to september 22nd. I'm trying to talk the missus into letting me go to the albert hall too.

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Old 05-29-2004, 07:23 AM   #6
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I am going to see the concert in Sydney on the 18th June. I have heard nothing but excellent reports and I am so excited about seeing it. I actually went and picked up my tickets today

Any other Aussies going?
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Thalionkrisiel,

I hope you'll share your response to the music here. I have tickets for the Houston concert on July 1. Shore himself will not be coming, but I am looking forward to hearing the music and seeing the images on the large screens.

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