Eric Latzky Culture Communications NY ELCCNY NEWS UPDATE FOR RELEASE: December 18, 2014 Contact: Eric Latzky eric@elccny.com, +1 212.358.0223 LOTRLincolnCenter.com/newsroom.html ADDITIONAL SHOW ADDED TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015 THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING THE LORD OF THE RINGS at LINCOLN CENTER 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Ludwig Wicki, Conductor HOWARD SHORE S Academy Award-Winning Scores Performed Live 250 Musicians Beneath a Giant Screen BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS and SOLOIST KAITLYN LUSK JOIN PRODUCTION PREMIUM TRILOGY PACKAGES NOW AVAILABLE Opportunities to Meet Howard Shore and Ludwig Wicki David H. Koch Theater LINCOLN CENTER, NEW YORK APRIL 7-12, 2015 #LOTRinConcert NEW YORK, NY By popular demand, an additional performance of The Fellowship of the Ring has been added to The Lord of the Rings trilogies, In Concert at Lincoln Center, Tuesday, April 7, 2015. The celebrated Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and soloist Kaitlyn Lusk, have joined the production for all performances, April 7-12, 2015, completing the grand artistic collaboration 250 musicians onstage beneath a giant screen to bring Howard Shore s epic composition to life. Premium Trilogy packages are now available, and include opportunities to meet Howard Shore and conductor Ludwig Wicki. For the first time in North America, the complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings will be presented live, in concert, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, April 8-12, 2015. Two full trilogies will be performed, Wednesday-Friday, April 8-10, and Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12. The production is created by CAMI Music, and follows acclaimed concert presentations of the first
two films of The Lord of the Rings trilogy at Radio City Music Hall (2009 and 2010). The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, at Lincoln Center, features the 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of Lucerne, Switzerland, conducted by Ludwig Wicki, which performs an annual program of film concerts at the KKL Luzern. The epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), The Return of the King (2003) directed by Peter Jackson and based on the beloved J. R. R. Tolkien novel became an international phenomenon. Released by New Line Cinema, the trilogy is among the highest earning films of all time, and won a total of 17 Academy Awards. Howard Shore was honored with Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score for The Fellowship of the Ring (2002) and The Return of the King (2004), and for Best Music, Original Song for Into the West, featured in The Return of the King (2004). Since 2008, more than 200 presentations of individual films of The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, have taken place in cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The complete film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, was presented in Lucerne and Munich in 2011. Howard Shore commented on the meaning of this North American premiere presentation of the trilogy, in concert: It was fascinating to watch the performances of individual films of The Lord of the Rings, In Concert, at Radio City in 2009 and 2010. For those events, people came from all over the world: Scandinavia, Europe, the Far East. The book has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted a global fan-base. But the fan community doesn t often have the opportunity to come together in person and coalesce around a performance like this at the highest level. The trilogy at Lincoln Center is unique and something powerful happens a synergy is created in bringing together the music, live on a massive scale, with the films, in a magnificent house, and not only for one night, but presented over the course of a week. To bring the trilogy to New York is meaningful as it s a center of the cultural world, and Lincoln Center is at the heart of New York. It s the perfect place to play the Trilogy in its entirety. We hope that everyone who travels from near or far will feel they ve arrived at a kind of contemporary, cultural Middle-earth. HOWARD SHORE, COMPOSER Howard Shore is among today s most respected, honored, and active composers and music conductors. His work with Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings trilogy stands as his most towering achievement to date, earning him three Academy Awards. He has also been honored with four Grammy and three Golden Globe awards. Shore was one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live. He served as the music director on the show from 1975 to 1980. At the same time, he began collaborating with David Cronenberg and has scored 15 of the director s films, including the forthcoming Maps to the Stars, The Fly, Crash, and Naked Lunch. His original scores to A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises and Dead Ringers were each honoured with a Genie Award and Cosmopolis was awarded for score and song Long to Live with Canadian Screen Awards. Shore continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from Martin Scorsese s Hugo, The Departed, The Aviator and Gangs of New York to Ed Wood, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Mrs. Doubtfire, and Se7en. Shore s music has been performed in concerts throughout the world. In 2003, Shore conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings Symphony in Wellington. Since then, the Symphony and The Lord of the Rings Live to Projection concerts have had over 340 performances by the world s most prestigious orchestras. In 2008, Howard Shore s opera The Fly premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera and just completed a successful run at Theatre Trier in Germany. Other recent works include the piano concerto Ruin and Memory for Lang Lang which premiered in Beijing with the 2
China Philharmonic Orchestra in 2010, the cello concerto Mythic Gardens for Sophie Shao which premiered with the American Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia. He has recently finished the score for the third film of The Hobbit trilogy. Shore received the Career Achievement for Music Composition Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, New York Chapter's Recording Academy Honors, ASCAP s Henry Mancini Award, the Frederick Loewe Award and the Max Steiner Award from the city of Vienna. He holds honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and York University, he is an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and the recipient of the Governor General s Performing Arts Award in Canada. 21 st CENTURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS LUDWIG WICKI, CONDUCTOR Magnificent film music is the credo and passion of the 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, based in Lucerne, Switzerland, and it s artistic director, Maestro Ludwig Wicki. The orchestra presents about 45 concerts of symphonic film music annually in the world renowned Concert Hall at the KKL Luzern and on tour. Because the voice is frequently a key element of film music, the Chorus has become an integral part of the concert activities of the 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra, participating in almost all concerts in Lucerne, and also on tour. In 2007, the 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra initiated a rich collaboration with composer and triple Academy Award-winner Howard Shore. The pinnacle of this work, the highly acclaimed soundtrack from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, was performed in 2008 as a world premiere by the orchestra, live in synchronization to the epic motion picture. In the following years, this project continued with world premieres of The Two Towers (2009), and The Return of the King (2010). In addition to other performances, the first two films of the trilogy were subsequently presented, in concert, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus has presented a wide range of epic films as live world premieres, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiators, and Disney s Fantasia. Concert tours have led the orchestra to renowned concert venues such as the Auditorium Stravinsky in Montreux, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, and the Palais de Congrès in Paris. Renowned film composers such as Academy Award-winners Howard Shore and Michael Giacchino, singer-songwriter Randy Newman, or Bafta Award-winners George Fenton and Patrick Doyle, have taken great pride in working with the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. In spring 2014, the 21 st Century Symphony Orchestra presented Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness as live in concert premieres in Lucerne, and also in the legendary Royal Albert Hall in London. BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS DIANNE BERKUN-MENAKER, DIRECTOR Now in its 23rd season, the Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, under the direction of Founder & Artistic Director Dianne Berkun-Menaker, is one of the country s leading youth choruses and the ensemble of choice for internationally renowned orchestras and recording artists, including the New York Philharmonic, London and Atlanta symphonies, Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Grizzly Bear, and Glen Hansard. The Chorus won a Grammy Award for the world premiere live recording of John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls with the New York Philharmonic in 2005. The New York Times has hailed the Chorus as "remarkable young singers," who perform "with confidence, energy, and tenderness... The sheer beauty of their singing [is] captivating." Called, by The New York Times, a "consistently bold organization that regularly commissions works from 3
composers representing an unusually broad stylistic range," the Chorus studies and performs a diverse repertoire and thrives on collaboration with composers and artists including Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Parry, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Kronos Quartet, and Rinde Eckert. Serving more than 500 singers annually at its headquarters in Cobble Hill, and locations in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Red Hook, choristers hail from 67 different zip codes throughout New York City. Dianne Berkun-Menaker is the Founder & Artistic Director of Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Under her visionary leadership, the Chorus has become one of the most highly regarded ensembles in the country and has stretched the artistic boundaries for the youth chorus. Hailed by The New York Times as "a remarkable choral conductor," Berkun-Menaker has prepared choruses for performances with acclaimed conductors, including Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Marin Alsop, James Levine, Charles Dutoit, and Robert Spano. Most notably, she prepared the Chorus for its 2002 debut with the New York Philharmonic in John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls, the recording for which the Chorus won a Grammy Award in 2005. Ms. BerkunMenaker is a regular choral clinician and teaching artist for such organizations as The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, and has also presented workshops and master classes for New York University, New York State School Music Association, American Choral Directors Association, and the New York City Department of Education. She is the creator of the Chorus's Cross-Choral Training program, a proven holistic and experiential approach to developing singers in a group setting encompassing both voice and musicianship pedagogy. KAITLYN LUSK, FEATURED SOLOIST Kaitlyn Lusk has legitimately gained international acclaim and won the praise of both media critics and concert audiences alike with her incredible voice and captivating presence. In 2003 she made her major orchestra debut with the Baltimore Symphony at the age of 14. The following year she delivered three show-stopping New Year s Eve showcase performances with the Boston Pops. She was promptly invited back and received standing ovations from SRO crowds in response to her performance of newly arranged renditions of songs made famous by Judy Garland. Soon after she was chosen by Howard Shore to perform as the Featured Soloist with the touring production of The Lord of the Rings. She has since performed with over 75 of the world s finest orchestras on such legendary stages such as Radio City Music Hall, Royal Albert Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and Het Concertgebouw. As an additional highlight, Kaitlyn was chosen by Howard Shore to perform the Academy Award winning song Into The West as part of the Grammy Honors in New York City. As a featured Special Guest Artist, she has continued to deepen her involvement in film music by joining the 21st Century Orchestra and Maestro Ludwig Wicki in several concerts featuring the music of Ennio Morricone and other classic cinematic songs. She is the Featured Soloist on the album Lord of the Rings Symphony which was recorded in Lucerne Switzerland with the 21st. Century Orchestra. Her existing solo studio album, No Looking Back, features some of the music industry s finest musicians/songwriters and was produced by the award-winning composer/arranger, Kim Scharnberg. Of further note, Kaitlyn has also developed an independent production titled FilmSong. This fully orchestrated and family oriented extravaganza features a 75-minute tour de force of songs from blockbuster movies that range from animated children's favorites to mainstream feature films. UPDATED PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE ADDED Tuesday, April 7, 7:30pm The Fellowship of the Ring TRILOGY I Wednesday, April 8, 7:30pm The Fellowship of the Ring Thursday, April 9, 7:30pm The Two Towers Friday, April 10, 7:30pm The Return of the King 4
TRILOGY II Saturday, April 11, 1:00pm Saturday, April 11, 7:30pm Sunday, April 12, 1:00pm The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King TICKETS, PACKAGES AND PURCHASE INFORMATION Individual tickets begin at $59 PREMIUM TRILOGY PACKAGE $1,000 Super-Premium Trilogy Ticket Exclusive Pre-Performance Reception with Howard Shore Intermission Champagne Exclusive Post-Performance Reception with Conductor Ludwig Wicki Post-Concert Shire Reception Ticket to LOTR at Lincoln Center Symposium Event Commemorative Program Book Signed by Howard Shore VIP GONDOR PACKAGE $400 VIP Trilogy Ticket Post-Concert Shire Reception Ticket to LOTR at Lincoln Center Symposium Event Commemorative Program Book Signed by Howard Shore HOBBIT PACKAGE $240 Premium Trilogy Ticket Post-Concert Shire Reception Commemorative Program Book Signed by Howard Shore Tickets and packages are available online at davidhkochtheater.com, by telephone at (212) 496-0600, or at the David H. Koch Theater Box Office. The David H. Koch Theater is located at the south side of the Lincoln Center Plaza at Columbus Avenue and 63 rd Street. THE LORD OF THE RINGS IN CONCERT 2015 COMMUNITY Connect with The Lord of the Rings In Concert 2015 community: Website: LOTRLincolnCenter.com Facebook: facebook.com/lotrinconcert Instagram: instagram.com/lotr2015 Twitter: twitter.com/lotr2015 Hashtag: #LOTRinConcert MEDIA RESOURCES For updates, high-resolution photographs, and video, visit: LOTRLincolnCenter.com/newsroom.html For additional inquiries and interview opportunities, contact: Eric Latzky Eric Latzky Culture Communications NY eric@elccny.com +1 212.358.0223 # # # 5
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