Do you remember the days when the word spread quickly that the Battle For Middle-Earth II video game had ROTK music that was easy to extract, and some of us, including myself, did some edits?
Well, today I was surfing aimlessly through *insert filesharing machine*, and stumbled over my Return Of The King edit that I did back then.
Apparently someone downloaded it from my hard drive and spread it.

I'm going to gamble and wait it out and save my plane ticket for Return of the King and, if we're really lucky, the entire trilogy over a three night engagement (oh please oh please oh please), no matter where in the world it is. If I have to choose and I'm going to spend a year's savings on a trip to see a performance, I'd rather listen to ROTK then the other parts.

Where'd you get this info Horner? I'm so happy Shore is up for this monumental task. It can't be easy to keep the right tempo and the orchestra on cue through an entire 3.5 hour film, even if you wrote and performed the music before. I wonder if they're playing cut cues, like the passage when Frodo is stabbed. It better be the Extended cut too, I hope. Any info or input, Doug?

Oh, I reread the post, I guess Howard Shore is present at the performance but not conducting it personally. That's kind of strange.

*scrambles back to read Horner's post again to find out how on earth I missed that*

Edit: Yes, Shore is not conducting, and details in that post are quite scant anyhow.

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Oh, I reread the post, I guess Howard Shore is present at the performance but not conducting it personally. That's kind of strange.

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Yes, You've read right. Howard Shore will not conduct the orchestra. He was very pleased with Ludwig Wicki doing the conducting back in March during the "Music of Howard Shore"-Concert but he definitly will be attending the concert. Evtl. there will again be a Q&A about his score for "Fellowship". I'm very much hoping for such a Q&A.

Where do I got this infos from? I'm involved in this projects and concerts with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra. I'm resposible for the press work and stuff like this.

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Originally posted by Horner:
Something about Howard Shores "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring".

I'm very excited to announce that Howard Shore is once more honoring the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland, Lucerne, for two exclusive Concerts in February 2008:

„The Fellowship of the Ring “; Saturday 23th of February 2008, 19:30 (local time) and Sunday 24th of February 2008, 17:00 (local time), KKL Lucerne, Switzerland
Live Soundtrack performed by the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Ludwig Wicki
With Oscar®-Winner Howard Shore

For further details, stay tuned!

Cheers

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ooooh...fortunaly I come from Switzerland I love this orchestra... GREAT NEWS!!!

-Sabsi, feeling like Gollum after he finally got his precious back (before he was devoured by the lava...)

PS: @Ruckus: LOL, you got me - for a few seconds I really believed you had access to the unpublished draft of the AS, but the 'aleatoric vocals by Renee Fleming, the London Voices, and a Maori rugby team choir' were too much
The AS is great, btw (never had any doubts about that).

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Originally posted by Magpie:
Re: Bilbo's Song. I will, of course, reserve final judgment till after I've listened to the flow but I'm a little concerned. (although 'concerned' is too strong a word) As I said before, there's an emotional arc. The music ends and one either feels satisfied at the end or not. If one feels satisfied, why break in with a new thought?

But, it's a small thing. If I truly dislike it I can hit stop.

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Since it seems I have to wait until 2008 to get my precious, I could not resist, listened to Erik's TROTK:CR-special on his radio show and had to remember Magpie's posting afterwards...

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Originally posted by Gorbag:
So given its mention in the AS does anyone think we might get the Theatrical version of Aragorn and the Dead's arrival at the Pelennor Fields on the Rarities disc?

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Originally posted by orbital:
Since it seems I have to wait until 2008 to Actually I think the way it's done works brilliantly - to me DAYS OF THE RING is so unbearable beautiful that I was really glad there was something afterwards to calm or chill down and reminisce about this whole unique listening experience. Simply ingenious - my two cents...

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ah... I can't wait.

I gave a few examples, it's your turn

So, this tells us quite explicitly that the written score has been compiled into a performance-ready state. I remember Doug mentioning some time back that compiling the written score into a chronological and full form was a project as vast as the CR. This bodes well for a future release of the written score.

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Originally posted by gkgyver:
I think Doug forgot to mention the "All Shall Come To Darkness" theme in "The Fellowship Reunited".
It foreshadowed the death of Boromir, the death of Theoden, and now it foreshadows the passing of Frodo in Bag End.

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G.K., it sounds suspiciously as though you already have the CR. Hmmm.

Speaking of noticing: as Theoden speaks to Grima "You were once a man of Rohan", you can hear the musical pattern of "fall from grace and subsequent redemption".

Podcast posted!
http://fsmpodcast.libsyn.com/

(iTunes is being slow tonight, so you may wish to direct download.)

Spread the word, I'm going to bed!

And folks ... there are some surprises!

Definetely loved the alternate Argonoth scene from Fellowship as well. An obviously perfect theme for that scene. I'm guessing that will be on the rarities, can't wait for that. I think its very fitting to include that with your book, which I'm sure will be a very interesting read.

Sign me up!

That alternate Argonath music (I loved the Gondor theme there although the film makers went for a more foreboding of the History of the Ring with that in the end) was a mouth watering hint of what wonders the Rarities will hold. And I hope to see you here during next year as well Doug keeping us informed and anticipating for the book!

Thanks so much Doug for a great podcast (and for letting me hear me)

And WOW... I never dreamed that the Argonath featured that bit of music. Guess it again goes to prove how Shore conceived his ideas for musical ROTK even at the time of FOTR. Simply amazing.

I'm sorry. At the moment I'm not able to give you any more fixed informations on this "Live-Soundtrack"-Concert. I think, the Score will be conducted an played exactly the way you can hear it in the Cinema-Version. If there is more information coming along, you can be sure that I'm going to post it here first! ;-)

Glad the Podcast seems to be hitting the spot. My deepest apologies to those whose recorded questions I wasn’t able to include. It’s really hard to pace these things. I did, however, try to address the questions without using the recordings.

Magpie, if you listen very, very closely, I think you’ll find that I actually addressed your question, nonverbally. Dig deep, folks… the Argonath music is not the only hidden gem here!

ROTK should hit shelves in just a week now. International orders should arrive without too much delay… I hope… but, don’t ask me specifics, because I really don’t know… Anyway, after a year of teasing, taunting and dropping hints, I hope you’ll find the destination to be worthy of the journey.

And remember, we ain’t done yet!

…And Horner, if you find a way to convince your Press Department that they need to fly me out for a Q&A session, consider me there!

Talk soon everyone,