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Originally posted by Strider1002:
There's a review of the concert up on theonering.net, sounds like it was pretty good. I'm jealous, I've only had the experience of hearing live LotR music once, and then it wasn't a great orchestra

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Originally posted by BigT1981:
Chances are it will be released in either November or December in time for the Christmas holidays.

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Too true...just extreme wishful thinking on my part. Also ROTK as we all know is going to be a lot longer than the others, so it might take the longest to complete of the three.

And think positive people. At least now we have 2 CR sets to keep us company and we can sate our insatiable hunger on that music. I remember the time before FotR CR when I was literally going nuts before its release. Now there is over 6 hours of fantastic music to listen to while I wait for the grand finale of the musical journey.

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Originally posted by BigT1981:
Chances are it will be released in either November or December in time for the Christmas holidays.

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...can we then expect ROTK another 11 months after TT...which would be in October? If so, then we have little over two months to go...[/B]

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In the kingdom of hope there is no winter

Did anyone else here know about the copy of the TTT CR that popped up on the internet, for bit torrent download, on the evening of the day it was released? That's what held me over until my set arrived a couple days later

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But it is something worth picking up for a fan of Shore's music.

anybody up for a challenge?

Please post a video of you air-conducting your favorite piece/part of LotR so far. I'll go first and make a complete fool outta myself. I look as if I'm under a lot of pain, I know...and I have no idea where that click-track sound is coming from!
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=14782653

I daresay I'll remain the only nut to post a video of myself. Therefore, I'm the winner of this contest by default.

Enjoy nonetheless!

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Originally posted by NeoVoyager:
I thought "The Last Mimzy" was surprisingly insipid for Maestro Shore, to be honest. It's one of my very few regretted purchases in the last few years.

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Really??
I like it!
Not as much as LotR, but still...

That was just delightful. It made me laugh and smile in all the best ways. I have followed conductors but know nothing about the art of conducting. Would all conductors sing along? I liked how you looked around at your imaginary orchestra sections. And then I liked that final smile at the camera.

I'm sure this will tide me over until until the release!

You're so sweet, guys! Thanks a lot!

I have to be honest and say, that the last mimzy didn't really impress me. First of all I think the album is a bit too long. Normally I don't complain about album lenght at all, but here it just starts to be too repetitive. Then I also found that there is too much similarity with Shores History of Violence and especially the calmer passages of The Aviator. Both, The Avaitor and A History of Violence, are far supiriore scores, in my opinion. Get them, if you haven't already!

About the air-conducting-video. Amazing how much time some people seems to have... ;-) No, sorry. Just kidding! Actually it would be a dream of mine to be able to stand in front of an orchestra and conducting it. The sheer power would blow me away... tja,... who knows! ;-)
Some thoughts so far.
Cheers

Ha, can't beleve it. How is it called... speaking of the devil or something... today the news is spreading that James Horner will score "In Bloom". Fantastic!
Good Luck, James.

Sorry for the off-topic post. Shall not happen again...

I think you should do Glamdring next - it'll really test your ability to keep all those players and singers under control

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Originally posted by Horner:

I have to be honest and say, that the last mimzy didn't really impress me.

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I wrote a negative review of LAST MIMZY for soundtrack.net, and received an email that revoked my right to review music from someone at Shore's alma mater, the Berklee College of Music. Despite the fact that the review was not terribly well-written, I hold to the view that Shore managed to write a score that was both boring and vaguely annoying for this film.

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Originally posted by franz_conrad:
I wrote a negative review of LAST MIMZY for soundtrack.net, and received an email that revoked my right to review music from someone at Shore's alma mater, the Berklee College of Music. Despite the fact that the review was not terribly well-written, I hold to the view that Shore managed to write a score that was both boring and vaguely annoying for this film.
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I have to admit I went to the official website and listened to samples and it did nothing for me. I never investigated further than that.<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes, it's true, the mimzy score is so-so, but the movie itself is not that inspiring, I can't blame Shore for not forging an epic score for every lame story.
P.S. I believe though that the unreleased King Kong score is much more exciting!

I agree btw with whomever feels LAST MIMZY was not promising material for a good score. True as that may be, the best film composers can usually strike something more worthwhile out of the exercise. After something strong like THE DEPARTED and HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, MIMZY's score just didn't try to tell that story in an interesting way.

I'd be very disappointed if it got binned...

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Originally posted by Ge0rge:

P.S. I believe though that the unreleased King Kong score is much more exciting!

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It's a torment to hear about unreleased scores from composers I love. There's always the niggling thought in the back of my mind that tells me I'm truly missing out on a quality musical experience.

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P.S. I believe though that the unreleased King Kong score is much more exciting!

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It's a torment to hear about unreleased scores from composers I love. There's always the niggling thought in the back of my mind that tells me I'm truly missing out on a quality musical experience.

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Well I believe Doug dropped hints a while back that King Kong may surface at some point...does anyone else remember exactly what he said/hinted at?

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All I remember is, that Maestro Shore said during the Q&A in Lucerne in March that he'd 'like to release it at some point'

And Doug said 'So HS is talking about Kong, eh? There’s some staggeringly beautiful and heartfelt writing in there.'

Christian, your second try is even better than the first one! But why is 'Glamdring' followed by 'Evenstar'? 'Evenstar' is part of the OST-CD, not the CR, so I think you were conducting 'Foundations of Stone' and not 'Glamdring'...

Sabsi (who still likes the Last Mimzy score!!)