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Concert on Tolkien's epic trilogy thrills Abu Dhabi
Show-goers relive epic adventures of characters in 'The Lord of the Rings' musical performance.
- Staff Report
- Published: 21:43 February 14, 2009
Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Palace Auditorium, for just a few enthralling hours, became J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.
The audience re-lived the epic adventures of Frodo, Sam, Gandalf and their friends as the breathtaking score from the Oscar-winning film trilogy soared, swooped, and swept them along on a magnificent musical journey that few will easily forget.
The triumphs, heartaches, sacrifices, love and ultimate peace were all vividly re-constructed for a widely diverse audience.
Young and old, students, families and friends revelled in the magnificent music and voices before them.
The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus was composed by the Oscar and Grammy-winning Howard Shore.
This glorious music was brought to Abu Dhabi under the masterful baton of the hugely successful Markus Huber, conducting the world-renowned German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has already thrilled audiences in Canada, Greece, Singapore, Germany and the United States with this enchanting symphony and the audience in Abu Dhabi was no exception.
The work's vast scope required a symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, boys' chorus and instrumental and vocal soloists singing in the Tolkien-created languages of Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzul, Adunaic, Black Speech and Old and Modern English.
The German Philharmonic Orchestra was joined by a plethora of talent from both East and West, including the youthful and talented United Abu Dhabi Children's Chorus and well-known Abu Dhabi Chamber Choir.
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