Quote of the Day
May. 15th, 2003 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgylden...though not my usual "humorous" sort of quote.
From Film Score Monthly, March 2003 (I'm just getting a chance to read it), "Magnificent Movie Music Moments":
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore
Reprise 9 48110-2; track unreleased "Boromir and the White City"
Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings is a virtual encyclopedia of balanced, understated and nuanced cues. We single out another case of brilliant dialogue-scoring: the brass writing for Boromir talking to Aragorn about returning to the White City (this conversation takes place at Lothlorien). The short, arching brass phrases breathe life into Boromir's depiction of a place we haven't seen or even heard much about in the film. Shore's music for this scene paints a clearer portrait of Boromir and Gondor even than the restoration of several key Boromir sequences to the extended edition of the film.
Incidentally, that's one of my favorite cues from FotR. It's my fantasy that after Return of the King is released and we have no more LotR movies to look forward to, they'll release a gigantic CD boxed set of the complete score, with everything Mr. Shore composed for the trilogy. It'd be huge and expensive, but I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
From Film Score Monthly, March 2003 (I'm just getting a chance to read it), "Magnificent Movie Music Moments":
Howard Shore
Reprise 9 48110-2; track unreleased "Boromir and the White City"
Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings is a virtual encyclopedia of balanced, understated and nuanced cues. We single out another case of brilliant dialogue-scoring: the brass writing for Boromir talking to Aragorn about returning to the White City (this conversation takes place at Lothlorien). The short, arching brass phrases breathe life into Boromir's depiction of a place we haven't seen or even heard much about in the film. Shore's music for this scene paints a clearer portrait of Boromir and Gondor even than the restoration of several key Boromir sequences to the extended edition of the film.
Incidentally, that's one of my favorite cues from FotR. It's my fantasy that after Return of the King is released and we have no more LotR movies to look forward to, they'll release a gigantic CD boxed set of the complete score, with everything Mr. Shore composed for the trilogy. It'd be huge and expensive, but I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
