Wow, that's a lot of percussion

[jethrien]

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.

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.

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[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Was "Evenstar" part of that concert? I kinda want to pitch a music-from-film concert to my choir director, with that and maybe the Harry Potter choral pieces, and so on...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

They literally played the film on a giant screen with the orchestra in front of it, playing the music. They played every single note of the score, from the music over the logos at the beginning through the last of the closing credits, seamlessly. You could easily forget that it was a live orchestra, except that the balance was slightly different. Also, watching the percussion section was awesome.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

NICE.