04/16/2012

Howard Shore’s Mythic Gardens Debuts with Sophie Shao and American Symphony Orchestra

Howard Shore’s new cello concerto Mythic Gardens sees its world premiere performances with the American Symphony Orchestra led by Leon Botstein and featuring cellist Sophia Shao at Bard College’s Richard B. Fisher Center on April 27 and 28. Shore first worked with Shao when she performed solo cello ...

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02/23/2012

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Hymns and their close relations odes and dithyrambs provide artistic expression for mankind’s desire to celebrate and sublimate existence, liberating us from the limitations of everyday existence and lifting us towards universal and even transcendental principles. In ancient times, the hymn ...

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10/07/2011

Music of Howard Shore Featured On Kentucky Symphony’s Of Myths and Rings Program; Shore Honored at Ghent Film Festival

On October 8 the Kentucky Symphony opens its 20th season with selections from Howard Shore’s Grammy and Academy Award-winning scores to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Featured on the symphony’s Of Myth and Rings program, Shore’s music is paired with selections from Richard Wagner’s iconic ...

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08/24/2011

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Stage Animals Scientists estimate that there are 1,367,555 animal species currently known on earth. Insects and spiders constitute the largest group by far with a total exceeding a million different species. The figure is somewhat more modest in the world of theatre, or to be more precise, ...

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10/14/2010

Howard Shore’s Ruin and Memory Premiered by Lang Lang at the Beijing Music Festival

Howard Shore enjoyed two noteworthy performances earlier this month in the US and abroad. On October 8 and 9 the ever popular The Lord of The Rings-The Two Towers Live to Projection had its Radio City Music Hall debut in New York City. Following on the heels of that event, Shore’s Ruin and Memory ...

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08/23/2010

schott aktuell - the journal 5/2010 online

Dance! p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-9: World Premières: Tobias Picker: Awakenings · Benjamin Schweitzer: nach Hause · Toshio Hosokawa: Sternlose Nacht · Gustav Mahler / Yoel Gamzou: Symphonie Nr. 10 · Fazil Say: Trompetenkonzert · Howard Shore: Ruin and Memory ...

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06/22/2010

Munich Film Festival Honors Howard Shore

Howard Shore will be honored with the Munich Film Festival’s first ever "Film Music Prize" on June 24. The award, to be presented at Munich's Circus Krone, includes a cash prize of 10,000€ donated by Bavarian Broadcasting and Telepool and the ceremony features a performance of Shore's ...

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06/21/2010

Work of the Week - Enjott Schneider: Movie Themes Made in Germany

On 24 July Enjott Schneider’s film suite Movie Themes made in Germany will be premiered during the grand opening gala event of the Munich Film Festival 2010 in the huge permanent tent of Circus Krone. With the theme "Cinema in Concert", the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra will ...

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06/17/2010

Munich Film Festival Honors Howard Shore

Howard Shore will be honored with the Munich Film Festival’s first ever "Film Music Prize" on June 24. The award, to be presented at Munich's Circus Krone, includes a cash prize of 10,000€ donated by Bavarian Broadcasting (BR) and Telepool and the ceremony features a performance of Shore's ...

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09/21/2009

The Fellowship of the Ring: Live to Projection Comes to Radio City Music Hall

Next month a rare concert experience graces the stage of New York City's Radio City Music Hall as Howard Shore's Academy Award-and Grammy-winning score to the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is performed live to projection of the film on October 9 and 10. The first part of ...

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