The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Almost Out of the Woods

A quick update on the legal end of things... We've almost untangled this complicated web and expect to have announcements soon. Please watch this site in the coming week or so.

It's been a rough road to a lovely--if unexpected--destination, and I'm finally starting to return to my average 6 hours of sleep a night. Ok, maybe that's not so great, but it's a marked improvement at any rate.

Stay tuned and I'll soon regale you with the tales of derring-do from the legal realm.

Wolf Trap TTT Reviews

Here's my official call for Wolf Trap TTT reviews. Please send your considered words, and I'll post them for all to see!

Large Water Music

I presume that most have already seen this outdated news by now, so please forgive my tardiness. However if you've been under the same rock as me, then please rejoice in this new-to-you announcement: Fellowship Live will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Friday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. Please see the right sidebar's concert lineup for informational and ticketing links.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Sinking Its Teeth In

Staple of the carnage crowd, Fangoria Magazine did a short piece on the upcoming Radio City Fellowship concerts. They asked me a few questions as well, and I was only too happy to answer. See the full piece here. [Warning, occasional gooey background imagery ahead.)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Examiner on Wolftrap

Short and sweet version: click here. Additional updates from my end in the coming days. Thanks for your patience.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Told Ya!

UPDATE: More info available here.

I've repeated promised that there is more good stuff to come with regards to the upcoming Radio City Music Hall concerts. As I'm not at all a fan of being proven incorrect, may I humbly submit the following.

How's that, then? :)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Still Waiting...

I offer my apologies to those whom I owe phones calls, emails, texts, tweets, posts, and so on. It's been another incredibly long day.

The multi-lawyered meetings scheduled for this week have been moved to next week while more information is gathered. But as the time passes, the view gets clearer, and I get more hopeful. As Tom Petty says, the waiting is the hardest part. So I'll try to find some silliness here and there in the interim, just to keep our minds busy. I'm at the mercy of others' schedules right now, so we may as well make the best of the situation.

For the moment however, bed beckons!

Back soon!

-Doug

Friday, August 14, 2009

About Last Night...

Hi everyone,

The original purpose of this blog was to keep everyone involved and informed as The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films took shape. In that spirit, I figure it's only fair that I should report triumphs and frustrations alike.

As you know, we've been dealing with the legal end of publishing during the past couple of weeks. It's been difficult. Extremely difficult, in fact. And, with the clock ticking away, we're still having problems. We seemed to have worked everything to a good spot until we experienced another cave-in late yesterday afternoon.

I cannot go into specifics right now, and I ask that you please avoid predictions and presumptions in the comments. (Not to be dictatorial, I just want to avoid any potentially negative thoughts at the moment.) I simply ask that, should you be so inclined, please spare a positive thought or two for us as we head in to Monday. That will be a big day for us, and a silent smile or two spread across the globe would help us more than I can tell you.

Thanks, everyone.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Starlog

Sci-fi stalwart Starlog brings us another look at the upcoming Radio City concerts... and another mention of the book! Read here.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Magpie's Message

Any followers of this blog who are attending the LOTR: FOTR Live concert at RCMH in NYC are welcome to join an informal, unofficial, off-the-board discussion where we hope to arrange meet ups and handle other matters of importance and nonsense. For more information, email Magpie at a.magpies.nest@gmail.com

EW

Entertainment Weekly has a brief piece on the Radio City concerts in their August 11 PopWatch section. Read here. I'm voting NO on the shenanigans, for what it's worth. :)

Special thanks to whoever mentioned the book/blog in the comments section!

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Pentatonic Posting

I'm very close to being able to come up for air now... I think! I'm hoping I'm about to enjoy my decent night's sleep in over a week. I've even been allowed to introduce a bit of recreational web browsing into tonight's schedule, and was lead to the following website/video. Those of you with musical inclinations already know that the Shire theme is based around a five-note, or pentatonic scale. Bobby McFerrin's experiment below would seem to suggest that our brains are either hardwired or sociologically conditioned to be attracted to such scales.

Interesting stuff, this! And if you find it flying over your head a bit, don't worry, the book will help explain things. There I got my plug in as well!

Back soon, I promise. The stressful legalities of the past few days will, I sincerely hope, soon be a thing of the past. I, for one, am very ready to put this time behind me, and to refocus on more musical concerns!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Double, Double...

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the lack of updates. We're still toiling away here making sure "i"s are dotted and "t"s crossed.

I'm promise to tend to blogging and emailing very soon!

Monday, August 3, 2009

ROTK Live Now On Sale

Tickets for Lucerne's world premiere performance of The Return of the King: Live to Projection have recently gone on sale on Art Production's site. Order away!

Once again, I'm planning to attend -- book in tow, finally! And who knows, with my newly relaxed schedule (relatively speaking) I may actually stay healthy enough to make it this time... knock on wood!

Penultimate Magnet

Here it is, the next-to-last time you'll see a single magnet for sale. FILMS will debut in September, and the whole set will be up for sale in October to celebrate the book's release.

Where does the time go!?

Click here to acquire.