Those were the days...
Shire and Rivendell wallpapers and screensavers ruled my desktop; Legolas was the cover of my school file*cough*; finished reading LOTR in 7 days; unearth tonnes of literature research on LOTR in the NUS library and National library (and read them all, of course); watched the VCDs for Nth times; surfed the official site and The One Ring Net regularly for updates; visited Middle Earth in my dreams...
All of that had past away. Looking back, I must be quite free in the undergrad days. Wahahahaha.
Went to the The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists yesterday at the Esplanade with J and YW. Performed by the Singapore Festival Orchestra (SFO), the Chorus of the Slovene National Theatres Maribor and Ljubljana , the Singapore Lyric Opera Children’s Choir – more than 200 musicians in all, the concert was indeed worthwhile. The live projection of Tolkien art in storyboard drawings by artists John Howe and Alan Lee complimented Howard Shore’s score perfectly, transporting me back to the fantasy realms...
Though not performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus (who did the movie soundtrack), SFO was quite up to the mark. The choir, as well as the soprano, was especially impressive. Perhaps it was the effect of listening "live", I did not realise that the score captured the underlying theological themes before, until yesterday. The battle of good versus evil, the triumph of humility over pride, the activity of grace and a sense of peace and hope exuberates through the sound of music.
Music of such stays in the mind more vividly than physical objects, really. =)
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