I'm actually checking in today to respond to a coupld of questions that keep popping up:ġ) The LOTR: Complete Recordings seem to be very hard to find right now. I love it, but you really feel your mind straining at the seams. The whole affair feels freeing, self-indulgent, satisfying beyond compare, and unnerving beyond recognition. You're back in the foothills all by yourself-and oh, you're not allowed to take the same route in your attempt to return to the summit. But after that, one has to hop off the mountain and tackle the whole thing again. One dedicates years of hard, solitary effort to creating something, then finally gets to come into the sunlight and celebrate. True, there hasn't been much to report on lately, but I do feel bad that I haven't been able to connect with everyone.Ĭreative work is so odd. The upshot of that, of course, is that I've been a pretty negligent blogger as of late. I'm hoping to be done with that by the end of summer, and with luck, will have more to share at that time. You can read the NZSO's press release right HERE.Īs you know, I've spent the majority of 2013 on a non-Tolkien project. The Desolation of Smaug will put Shore and company back in the same room in which the 2001 Cannes preview was recorded, which is actually pretty cool! It's a wonderful way to take advantage of another of New Zealand's natural resources. (They also recorded the Breaking of the Fellowship, though when that portion of the film was re-edited, the London Philharmonic re-recorded the score the NZSO's performance can still be heard during the FOTR: EE fan scroll.) That performance is still in the finished film today. When Fellowship's Mines of Moria sequence premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, New Zealand's leading orchestra-and a male chorus full of trained vocalists and footballers-recorded the score. The NZSO was actually the first orchestra to ever perform Shore's Middle-earth music. Yes, this is a slight break with tradition-only it's not. (It is generally easier for me to post things quickly on Twitter, so please consider following!) Yesterday's big news was that the fantastic New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is going to be recording Howard Shore's score to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug! I put this on Twitter yesterday, but am just now adding it to the blog.
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