Shore shares insights on ‘Rings’ trilogy
When director Peter Jackson asked Howard Shore to compose the score for “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy, Shore studied J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world before beginning four years of writing music.
At a Master’s Tea Tuesday afternoon, Shore shared insights about composing, orchestrating, conducting and producing more than ten hours of music to accompany “The Lord of the Rings” films in front of more than 100 students in the Branford College common room. The Academy Award-winning composer, who also wrote the scores for “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Doubt,” among others, also told stories...
I'm loving all the movie teas at Yale lately. Knew i should have missed class to see this one!
"Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Doubt"? I can see this was an attempt at a joke, but it wasn't a good enough joke to justify leaving out all of Shore's work with Cronenberg, recent Scorsese films ("The Aviator"/"The Departed"/"Gangs of New York"), not to mention "Philadelphia," "Ed Wood," "Dogma," "High Fidelity," "Panic Room," etc., etc.
Where is any mention of his work with Cronenberg? It came up a lot and it is an enormous part of his career.