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Dan Brecher · 01-31-2004, 07:04 AM

The downside to the London performance is its venue. I attend a lot of classical music concerts and the Royal Festival Hall remains one of my least favourite venues due to the rather dated acoustics. He could have sold out the Albert Hall with this one, though the Festival Hall is the Philharmonic's home it must be said. The Barbican remains one of my favourite venues, which is home to the LSO.

We've got good seats in the stalls to make the best of it, and we were to the side of the stalls a year ago when he came to conduct the two Fellowship movements, and things were not so bad then, but it is an auditorium so very dependant on one having the best seats in the house. Hopefully some of the choir members will not be as nervous this year though (the young lad really needs to belt out ‘In Dreams’ this time).

The six movements are broken down as follows:

Movement One
The Prophecy / Concerning Hobbits / The Shadow of the Past / A Short Cut 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

-- interval --

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

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

It is possible that all performances after the London one in May will see the last two movements expanded slightly to include motifs from the extended edition of The Return of the King (as the London performance is taking place shortly after the schedule of recording the extended edition score in Watford). This is not to say any of the cue segments noted above are certain to be renamed to denote any possible extension of course, as for example the two Fellowship movements included some of the extended edition score motifs when it was performed in 2003 (much to the delight of Rob and myself).

Matthew may be able to confirm if Shore weaved any extended edition score into the Two Towers movements.

For those scattered about the US interested, here is some information about the venues and dates you can now book for (there is also one for Montreal):

Montreal (23rd of Feb 2004):
http://www.montrealenlumiere.ca/engl...en.NoTitre=715

Ohio (26th of March 2004)
http://www.columbussymphony.com/news...lordfriday.htm

Atlanta (4th & 5th of June 2004)
http://www.atlantasymphony.org/calen...info/rings.htm

Seattle (16th & 17th of July 2004)
http://www.seattlesymphony.org/seaso...anceDateID=545

Dan (UK)

01-31-2004, 07:04 AM	#8 of 34
Dan Brecher *Daniel* Member Join Date: Jan 1999 Local Time: 03:01 AM Local Date: 11-23-2008 Posts: 11,152	The downside to the London performance is its venue. I attend a lot of classical music concerts and the Royal Festival Hall remains one of my least favourite venues due to the rather dated acoustics. He could have sold out the Albert Hall with this one, though the Festival Hall is the Philharmonic's home it must be said. The Barbican remains one of my favourite venues, which is home to the LSO. We've got good seats in the stalls to make the best of it, and we were to the side of the stalls a year ago when he came to conduct the two Fellowship movements, and things were not so bad then, but it is an auditorium so very dependant on one having the best seats in the house. Hopefully some of the choir members will not be as nervous this year though (the young lad really needs to belt out ‘In Dreams’ this time). The six movements are broken down as follows: Movement One The Prophecy / Concerning Hobbits / The Shadow of the Past / A Short Cut 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 -- interval -- 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 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 It is possible that all performances after the London one in May will see the last two movements expanded slightly to include motifs from the extended edition of The Return of the King (as the London performance is taking place shortly after the schedule of recording the extended edition score in Watford). This is not to say any of the cue segments noted above are certain to be renamed to denote any possible extension of course, as for example the two Fellowship movements included some of the extended edition score motifs when it was performed in 2003 (much to the delight of Rob and myself). Matthew may be able to confirm if Shore weaved any extended edition score into the Two Towers movements. For those scattered about the US interested, here is some information about the venues and dates you can now book for (there is also one for Montreal): Montreal (23rd of Feb 2004): http://www.montrealenlumiere.ca/engl...en.NoTitre=715 Ohio (26th of March 2004) http://www.columbussymphony.com/news...lordfriday.htm Atlanta (4th & 5th of June 2004) http://www.atlantasymphony.org/calen...info/rings.htm Seattle (16th & 17th of July 2004) http://www.seattlesymphony.org/seaso...anceDateID=545 Dan (UK)