Radio City Music Hall Audience & Arches
1260 Avenue of the Americas & 50th Street, NYC
by navema
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Howard Shore’s original award-winning score performed live to the motion picture by the 21st Century Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale, Brooklyn Youth Choir, and Kaitlyn Lusk, conducted by Ludwig Wicki at Radio City Music Hall at 7:30p.m on October 9th & 10th 2009. Howard Shore and Billy Boyd in attendance.
The concerts at Radio City Music Hall on October 9th and 10th will be the first time that Maestro Ludwig Wicki and The 21st Century Orchestra will join forces with the Collegiate Chorale and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Ludwig and his orchestra are based in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland where the complete score to the theatrical version of the film was first performed. Ludwig is the foremost conductor of this score-to-film concert. His precision, detail and supreme musicianship will be on display at Radio City. He personally selected the musicians who comprise The 21st Century Orchestra. Over the years he has worked with them in Lucerne perfecting this music.
The Collegiate Chorale performed two movements from The Fellowship of the Ring at Carnegie Hall in 2005 under the direction of their founder, the late Robert Bass. The Boys Choir hails from Brooklyn, New York and is a new enormously talented choral group under the direction of Dianne Berkun. Soloist Kaitlyn Lusk is currently the premiere interpreter of the vocal music and an incredible presence, having performed in The Lord of the Rings Symphony with orchestras around the world.
This new presentation of cinematic image and music came about as the process of releasing The Complete Recordings was coming to an end.
How is the music synchronized? Maestro Wicki will conduct with a laptop computer running Auricle, a color-coded system that indicates the music’s starting and stopping points, as well as tempo:
* White Circle: Flashes on the downbeat of every bar. Numbers beneath the circle indicate measure numbers.
* Green Stripe: Passes from left to right across the screen to prepare the conductor for the music’s starting point.
* Purple Stripe: Alerts the conductor to an upcoming change.
* Orange Stripe: Marks a pause in the music.
* Red Stripe: Marks the end of a scene.
www.theradiocitylotrconcert.com
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city. Its interior was declared a city landmark in 1978.
The 12 acre complex in midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center was developed between 1929 and 1940 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on land leased from Columbia University. The Radio City Music Hall was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and interior designer Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. Rockefeller initially planned a new home for the Metropolitan Opera on the site, but after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the plans changed and the opera company withdrew from the project.
Radio City has 5,933 seats for spectators; it became the largest movie theater in the world at the time of its opening. Designed by Edward Durell Stone, the interior of the theater, with decor by Donald Deskey, incorporates glass, aluminum, chrome, and geometric ornamentation. Deskey rejected the Rococo embellishment generally used for theaters at that time in favor of a contemporary Art Deco style, borrowed heavily from a European Modern aesthetic style, of which he was the foremost exponent at the time.
The Great Stage, measuring 66.5 feet deep and 144 feet wide, resembles a setting sun. Its system of elevators was so advanced that the U.S. Navy incorporated identical hydraulics in constructing World War II aircraft carriers; according to Radio City lore, during the war, government agents guarded the basement to assure the Navy's technological advantage.
By the 1970s, changes in film distribution made it difficult for Radio City to secure exclusive bookings of many films; furthermore, the theater preferred to show only G-rated movies, which became increasingly less common as the decade wore on. Regular film showings at Radio City ended in 1979. Plans were made to convert the theater into office space, but a combination of preservation and commercial interests resulted in the preservation of Radio City and in 1980, after a renovation, it reopened to the public. Radio City Music Hall is currently leased to and managed by Cablevision. Movie premieres and feature runs have occasionally taken place there but the focus of the theater is now on concerts and live stage shows.
Radio City Music Hall Audience & Arches
1260 Avenue of the Americas & 50th Street, NYC
by navema
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Howard Shore’s original award-winning score performed live to the motion picture by the 21st Century Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale, Brooklyn Youth Choir, and Kaitlyn Lusk, conducted by Ludwig Wicki at Radio City Music Hall at 7:30p.m on October 9th & 10th 2009. Howard Shore and Billy Boyd in attendance.
The concerts at Radio City Music Hall on October 9th and 10th will be the first time that Maestro Ludwig Wicki and The 21st Century Orchestra will join forces with the Collegiate Chorale and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Ludwig and his orchestra are based in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland where the complete score to the theatrical version of the film was first performed. Ludwig is the foremost conductor of this score-to-film concert. His precision, detail and supreme musicianship will be on display at Radio City. He personally selected the musicians who comprise The 21st Century Orchestra. Over the years he has worked with them in Lucerne perfecting this music.
The Collegiate Chorale performed two movements from The Fellowship of the Ring at Carnegie Hall in 2005 under the direction of their founder, the late Robert Bass. The Boys Choir hails from Brooklyn, New York and is a new enormously talented choral group under the direction of Dianne Berkun. Soloist Kaitlyn Lusk is currently the premiere interpreter of the vocal music and an incredible presence, having performed in The Lord of the Rings Symphony with orchestras around the world.
This new presentation of cinematic image and music came about as the process of releasing The Complete Recordings was coming to an end.
How is the music synchronized? Maestro Wicki will conduct with a laptop computer running Auricle, a color-coded system that indicates the music’s starting and stopping points, as well as tempo:
* White Circle: Flashes on the downbeat of every bar. Numbers beneath the circle indicate measure numbers.
* Green Stripe: Passes from left to right across the screen to prepare the conductor for the music’s starting point.
* Purple Stripe: Alerts the conductor to an upcoming change.
* Orange Stripe: Marks a pause in the music.
* Red Stripe: Marks the end of a scene.
www.theradiocitylotrconcert.com
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city. Its interior was declared a city landmark in 1978.
The 12 acre complex in midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center was developed between 1929 and 1940 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on land leased from Columbia University. The Radio City Music Hall was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and interior designer Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. Rockefeller initially planned a new home for the Metropolitan Opera on the site, but after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the plans changed and the opera company withdrew from the project.
Radio City has 5,933 seats for spectators; it became the largest movie theater in the world at the time of its opening. Designed by Edward Durell Stone, the interior of the theater, with decor by Donald Deskey, incorporates glass, aluminum, chrome, and geometric ornamentation. Deskey rejected the Rococo embellishment generally used for theaters at that time in favor of a contemporary Art Deco style, borrowed heavily from a European Modern aesthetic style, of which he was the foremost exponent at the time.
The Great Stage, measuring 66.5 feet deep and 144 feet wide, resembles a setting sun. Its system of elevators was so advanced that the U.S. Navy incorporated identical hydraulics in constructing World War II aircraft carriers; according to Radio City lore, during the war, government agents guarded the basement to assure the Navy's technological advantage.
By the 1970s, changes in film distribution made it difficult for Radio City to secure exclusive bookings of many films; furthermore, the theater preferred to show only G-rated movies, which became increasingly less common as the decade wore on. Regular film showings at Radio City ended in 1979. Plans were made to convert the theater into office space, but a combination of preservation and commercial interests resulted in the preservation of Radio City and in 1980, after a renovation, it reopened to the public. Radio City Music Hall is currently leased to and managed by Cablevision. Movie premieres and feature runs have occasionally taken place there but the focus of the theater is now on concerts and live stage shows.