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LOTR Symphony Report
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Fellowship of the Ring I
The Prophecy – Concerning Hobbits – The Shadow of the
Past – A Short Cut to Mushrooms – The Old Forest – A Knife in the Dark
The lights go down and the music starts. The music, The
Prophecy, is heard on the regular CD but not in the movie. I actually like
this music very much. The choir is heavily utilized in this piece. The
crescendo of the voices with the orchestra was stunning. A great start to
the evening. The Taiko drum and gong were played. You might know that images
are shown during the movie. I was expecting something very much along the
lines of the ROTK credits. That parchment paper look for Alan Lee's
drawings. For part of this section, they showed a pencil sketch of the Ring.
The camera kind of zoomed in and the Ring rotated... as if we were reading
the text inside. Then it dissolved to Gollum's eye and face. hmmm.
interesting. I'll speak more about these images later.
I notice the accordion in the Happy Hobbit music of
Concerning Hobbits. (more properly called the Rural Setting of the Shire
Theme... but that's geeky soundtrack information!) It's actually a
musette in the
movie score and maybe this one was a musette as well. I don't know if I'd
know the difference.
The Boys and Women stand up to deliver the Seduction Theme.
This would be when Gandalf says goodbye to Sam and Frodo as they leave the
Shire. The Seduction Theme in the movie is not sung in this scene but I
think the symphony tries to provide samples and examples of the music. Not
only is it condensed greatly but instances of themes were probably chosen
and/or rewritten to give a good quick example of the numerous times that
theme is used. The music goes into the happy Hobbit cornfield music and then
into the foreboding oh-oh Ringwraiths' music. The Ringwraith music is fully
developed and will represent all the Ringwraith music from the movie. That
goes into the Wizards' fight at Orthanc. (I'm just writing up what I
wrote... there was more music, I'm sure... but this is what I noticed.)
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