SYMPHONY IN SEE.(composer Howard Shore's score for "The Return of the King")(Interview)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 20-OCT-03

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On a recent Tuesday, the composer Howard Shore left his hotel in London and climbed into a black Mercedes for the forty-five-minute drive to Watford, an unromantic suburb northwest of the city. There, in the Watford Colosseum, a municipal dance hall opposite a tanning salon, a sweetshop, and a pharmacy, Shore was working on the score for "The Return of the King," the last movie in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, a project that has occupied him for the past three years and will soon be completed. "I knew the acoustics of this Watford room," Shore explained. "It's been used on several classical records; the BBC uses it. Middle-earth is old. It's five to six...

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