On 31 Dec 2004 at 20:39, David Woodcock wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David W. Fenton" > > So far as I can tell, *all* extras were Kiwis, as well as all the > > production crew with the exception of the management-level roles. All > > post-production was done in New Zealand with the exception of music > > recording, which was done in London because it was done by the > London > Philharmonic (easier to go to the orchestra than to bring the > > orchestra to NZ). > > Just as a matter of interest, some of the music for the Fellowship of > the Rings was done in Wellington, New Zealand with the New Zealand > Symphony Orchestra. The Mines of Moria sequence and the end part of > the movie was needed for a thirty minute showing at the Cannes Film > Festival and as the film was very much still in production at the time > it was decided to record the music in Wellington to make things > easier, and no doubt a lot cheaper. The rest of the movie is the LPO > as is the rest of the Trilogy. I was fortunate to be doing music > preparation on those sessions in the Wellington Town Hall.
I'm surprised that little bit of "home-town pride" didn't make it onto the commentaries somewhere! Or maybe I just missed it. Of course, I haven't listened to *all* the commentaries yet, most notably, the post-production commentary with Howard Shore. I have listened to that for the first half of Fellowship, so I'll listen closely when I get to Moria for that. But so far, Shore's comments have all been basically "leitmotiv naming," not extra-musical observations. And I must also observe that they haven't been terribly illuminating to *me* -- he seems to name the incredibly obvious themes or extremely obscure themes, and ignore the ones in between, the ones that are kind of prominent and memorable, but not as sharply defined as the main themes. I do intend to see if I can get a recording of his 2-hour suite created from the soundtracks for the 3 films -- I think there's much of great merit in what I've heard in the movie and look forward to hearing what he does with it as purely musical material. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
