Francois Caron

Wow! It'll actually be in Ottawa on July 22nd and 23rd! That's just two hours away from Montreal by bus! And the bus stops just across the street from the NAC! Howard Shore (a former Canadian) will actually be in town for the event.

Kim D

Vickie,

I am envious that you didn't have to pay ticketmaster charges.

My husband and I are totally psyched.

See you there!

- kim

Kim D

Vickie,

I am envious that you didn't have to pay ticketmaster charges.

My husband and I are totally psyched.

See you there!

- kim

Kim D

It's tonight! I've had these tickets so long that I forgot about them until this morning. Much better than remembering tomorrow.

- kim

Haggai

Heh, good thing you remembered, Kim. It's a great experience.

By the way, where's Vickie been? I haven't seen her on here in months.

Holadem

I went to the Hartford show last month, I loved the first half (all FOTR). However, there were a couple of negatives:

Howard Shore bailed on us, he cancelled his appearance a couple of weeks before. Some other guy conducted.

I felt shortchanged by the second half, it had the sequels crammed into it the same time frame. I know some themes from FOTR are rehashed in the sequels, but should be enough new material to warrant a more even distribution.

The artwork featured none of the characters, except Gollum quite prominently, and perhaps the Witch King and Arwen.

Other than that, beautiful stuff

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Kim D

I totally expected Vickie to update this thread before I got to it.

I've never met Vickie (or anyone else from HTF) but I will definitely look for her tonight.

I honestly thought the concert was next weekend. Whew.

- kim

Seth Paxton

Yeah now that you mention it Vickie hasn't posted in a couple of months. I hope nothing is wrong. Maybe they are busy traveling, new job, etc which sometimes happens.

Kim D

"I saw Shore conduct this last Saturday night in Atlanta, and it was FANTASTIC!"

Howard Shore finally walked on the stage after the concert was over. Standing ovation. Highlight of the evening. Seriously.

"Do not pass this up if you are the least bit interested.. it was something truly special."

If Howard Shore is conducting, don't pass it up.

"But who the heck is the World Festival Orchestra - a pick-up group?????"

Yes. I'm convinced that it had to be. I almost felt as though I were attending a practice session two weeks before their first performance.

During intermission I turned to my husband and said that part of their practice should have included seeing the freaking movies at least one time. They played without heart They played without soul. Their playing was technically okay with a mechanical delivery. They were just playing the notes. And they made so many mistakes that _I_ noticed.

It was not all bad. Sometimes the music hit the right tone and it would make me smile and remember the movie.

"Our show lasted almost 2h30m including intermission..and we didn't want it to stop."

I wondered if I would go back in after the intermission. Then I remembered how much money I had spent on tickets. And my husband and I were meeting up with Vickie and Chris after the show.

- kim

P. S. Vickie has been busy but she's still seeing movies. She's almost convinced me to go see Sky Captain. She'll be back posting soon.

Haggai

Thanks for the report, Kim. Sorry to hear that it was disappointing, and that you didn't get to see Shore in action, as I did in Columbus, and others did elsewhere. Also good to hear that Vickie hasn't vanished!

Sean Laughter

This may not be the place to put this, but that Howard Shore DVD included with the gift set of ROTK . . . is it like a documentary thing about him doing the score or is it a recording of one of these concerts?