silentdescant | lotr concert

OH YEAH, i remembered what i wanted to say earlier while my brain was making my head hurt.

LORD OF THE RINGS SYMPHONY CONCERT AT A VINEYARD HERE ON SEPTEMBER 9TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tickets for seats: like $90. tickets for peripheral areas: either $30 or $50, i can't remember.

now, why is it so expensive? does that mean that someone special is either conducting or singing or going to be there? i wanna gooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

ETA: $40 for general admission, $100 for reserved seating. the chateau ste. michelle website doesnt have a whole lot about it except for a press release on how great the music is which I ALREADY KNOW. link to the site here. lotr stuff is at the bottom of the page. i will continue to research whats going on.....

ETA 2: i found a better website here. the part where it says "...a program entitled “The Rings: Myth and Music,”" i read it as "The Rings: Mirth and Magic..." ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also, i liked this bit:

Shore achieves this enormous feat by the ingenious use and juxtaposition of a plethora of recurring motifs – close to 80 in all – associated with the various characters and places in the books. Shore’s employment of some instruments foreign to the traditional Western symphony orchestra – and of choral settings in Tolkien’s languages – helps conjure up the ancient beauty of Middle-earth, its diverse inhabitants, and the harrowing struggle between the forces of good and evil.

Shore likens the daunting experience of writing the music for the three The Lord of the Rings films to that of the humble hobbit asked to carry the ring. “When I started,” he told the Chicago Tribune, “I was the hobbit with the ring saying, ‘I will do this. I will take the ring to Mordor, although I do not know the way.’” Shore considers his work on The Lord of the Rings to be the culmination of everything he has done in his first 40 years of writing music.