Thanks to Ringer Pesce who sent in a rather interesting find. We have not been able to verify the following statement from Pesce is correct, but we thought this might just be the smallest of hints who could be cast as Bilbo Baggins.
This Friday, fighting snow and train delay, I went to Luzern (Switzerland) for “The Return of the King - Live to Projection”. The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra and 21st Century Chorus conducted by Ludwig Wicki have performed the Howard Shore’s Complete score of RotK. The concert was a wonderful experience, even better than FotR concert.
This picture is from the FotR concert in Luzern that I attended last September.
KKL Luzern Music Hall is modern and has a perfect acoustics. The Swiss audience was fond of both the movie and Shore’s score (I was sit next a cute boy with a big tattoo on his arm with the Ring Elven characters). I saw many people tearing during the most powerful scenes and I was one of them. It continue to amaze me how, after many years and countless rerun, these movies have the same powerful impact. At the end of the concert there was an unexpected gift: Howard Shore himself make an exit along with the concert conductor to collect the never-ending ovation.
Conductor Ludwig Wicki is a real lover of Tolkien and LotR Trilogy movie. He conducted in Luzern the first TTT concert with live projection in spring 2009, from this experience followed the other worldwide LorR concerts. He will conduct again the TTT score at the Royal Albert Hall in London in (April 23 and 24) and at Radio City Music Hall in New York (Oct. 8 and 9).
In THIS PAGE there is a video (in German) about the preparation of the concert with a short interview with H. Shore.
Dear LotR fanatics, if you have the possibility to go to one of this concerts, you won’t regret it! There will the possibility to see again one of our beloved movie on the big screen, but also to lower oneself in a sea of music that will overdraw the emotions arriving from the screen.
I went to Rome for LotR Symphony: OGM, it was wonderful! But it was a bit tiring: I have any more the ‘physique’ for that. But it was completely worth the trip. First at all because I met at long last the wonderful melyanna_65 and also for the Symphony directed by the composer Himself.
I’m late in my reply to your lovely posts. During the weekend went at to beach of Pesaro for the first spring sun-bath with lot of froliching in the cold water. Here the spring is starting to spread the colors and the smell of the first flowers.
I wish you all were with me here for my birthday. Thank you again.
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