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Howard Leslie Shore OC is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is a consistent collaborator with ...
Sep 8, 2020 · Howard Shore ’s Lord of the Rings score is packed with enough memorable, heart-wrenching melodies, epic brass sequences and tense, crunchy string build-ups to make it any music-lover’s favourite. The Lord of the Rings has garnered Shore no less than four Grammys, three Oscars, two Golden Globes, and a raft of other awards.
Aug 25, 2014 · Shore says he has to be in a "place of beauty" to compose. "The world that I write in is very 19th Century and very green. I live in a forest. The connection to nature is very important to me. And I think that was also the connection to Tolkien’s work. I know how important that was to Tolkien and his writing: everything that was green and good."
Feb 12, 2021 · Howard Shore, the prolific film composer behind the music heard in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (for which he earned three Academy Awards), Se7en, The Departed, comedies Big and Mrs. Doubtfire along with many other projects (to date he’s scored over 90 films since 1979’s The Brood for David Cronenberg) is one of the industry’s most respected, inventive and admired music writers.
Composer Howard Shore’s epic score for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is a monumental effort that expresses J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s films as an immense symphonic work. The result is a uniquely all-encompassing vision created from centuries of stylistic tendencies, each treated with the utmost respect.
Howard Shore’s film scoring résumé, containing everything from The Lord of the Rings cycle to the 2016 Academy Award winner for best picture, Spotlight, is so impressive that it might seem intimidating to music students. And yet, Shore, who studied composition at Berklee College of Music long before there was a Film Scoring Department, credits his time at Berklee with helping him get his start.
Howard Shore's scores for The Lord of the Rings contain, perhaps, some of the greatest music ever written for film. This music acts as a reflection of the cu...
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