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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in concert was in fact amazing. I hadn't realized it before, but there's never more than a minute or two that the orchestra is not playing.
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ivy03's choir was really fantastic (although I'm afraid all their obsessing over vowel sounds and subtle pronunciation questions in Elvish and Rohirric were completely lost when there was an orchestra in front of them and I was in the third mezzanine). I do have to concur with airspaniel's assessment that the boy soprano just wasn't standing close enough to the microphone and that the female soloist was kind of awful on her big solo over the credits. (Seriously - that song is supposed to be ethereal and haunting. Not behind the beat and over-sexualized until you start sounding like a bad Bond theme.) But besides that, totally awesome. Will seriously consider going to Return of the King next year.
ivy03's choir was really fantastic (although I'm afraid all their obsessing over vowel sounds and subtle pronunciation questions in Elvish and Rohirric were completely lost when there was an orchestra in front of them and I was in the third mezzanine). I do have to concur with airspaniel's assessment that the boy soprano just wasn't standing close enough to the microphone and that the female soloist was kind of awful on her big solo over the credits. (Seriously - that song is supposed to be ethereal and haunting. Not behind the beat and over-sexualized until you start sounding like a bad Bond theme.) But besides that, totally awesome. Will seriously consider going to Return of the King next year.
