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The Fellowship of the Ring – Live to Projection

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LOTR_Fellowship_webTHE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
COMPLETE SCORE PERFORMED LIVE

Howard Shore’s Academy Award®-winning Score
Performed Live to the Epic Motion Picture
By Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists

Composer Howard Shore brings J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Shore’s music expresses Peter Jackson’s film as an immense symphonic work—a uniquely developed vision drawn from centuries of stylistic tendencies.

The music of The Lord of the Rings is counted among film music’s most complex and comprehensive works. This unique performance sets the score to the film, but allows the music to bear the narrative weight, creating a wholly new and dramatic live concert experience.

Shore’s score not only captures Fellowship’s sweeping emotion, thrilling vistas and grand journeys, but also echoes the very construction of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Styles, instruments and performers collected from around the world provide each of Tolkien’s cultures with a unique musical imprint. The rural and simple hobbits are rooted in a dulcet weave of Celtic tones. The mystical Elves merit ethereal Eastern colors. The Dwarves, Tolkien’s abrasive stonecutters, receive columns of parallel harmonies and a rough, guttural male chorus. The industrialized hordes of Orcs claim Shore’s most violent and percussive sounds, including Japanese taiko drums, metal bell plates and chains beaten upon piano wires, while the world of Men, flawed yet noble heirs of Middle-earth, is introduced with stern and searching brass figures. In operatic fashion, these musical worlds commingle, sometimes combining forces for a culminated power, other times violently clashing…and always bending to the will of the One Ring and its own ominous family of themes.

The music’s vast scope calls for symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, boys chorus and instrumental and vocal soloists singing in the Tolkien-crafted languages Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzdul, Adûnaic, Black Speech, as well as English. Original folk songs stand alongside diatonic hymns, knots of polyphony, complex tone clusters and seething, dissonant aleatoric passages. It is purposeful, knowing writing, as contained in execution as it is far-reaching in influence; for within this broad framework resides a remarkably concise musical vision. Shore’s writing assumes an earthy, grounded tone built on sturdy orchestral structures and a sense of line that is at once fluid yet stripped of frivolous ornamentation.

-Doug Adams

Doug Adams is a Chicago-based musician and writer. He is the author of the book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films.

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Upcoming Concerts:

The Two Towers
Live to Projection

San Francisco, CA
May 8 - 10, 2025


Bangkok, Thailand
May 17 - 18, 2025


Quebec, Canada
Sept 5 - 6, 2025


Montreal, Canada
Jan 9 - 11, 2026

The Fellowship of the Ring
Live to Projection


Denver, CO
May 23 - 25, 2025


Pittsburgh, PA
June 27 - 29, 2025


Grand Rapids, MI
Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2025

The Return of the King
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Orlando, Florida
June 13 - 14, 2025


Antwerp, Belgium
Sept 18 - 21, 2025


Munich, Germany
March 14, 2026

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