Nice few days of family bonding. Went and saw Shrek 2 with my brother on Thursday night. Great movie, for mine, as funny as the first, as many cultural references as the first, and maintaining the orginailty of the first one too.
The last night I went to the Opera House with my parents, and heard Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings Symphony. Brilliant! The athmosphere was great, and the music was fantastic. Even though you didn't hear all of the pieces, and some of the pieces that I liked were not performed, May it Be (FotR), The King of the Golden Hall (TTT), and Billy Boyd's terfficially moving song (RotK). Though they did play the accompanying piece The Steward of Gondor. But I guess that was always going to happen considering for the performance 12 hours of music was condensed into just over 2 hours.
Katie Noonan, and David Bruce, were brilliant soloists. I have heard a little of george, but she sang Gollum's Song, and Into the West beautifully. David likewise sang In Dreams (featured in The Breaking of the Fellowship).
Above the Orchestra and the choir they projected images, including sketches of the Characters, maps of Middle Earth, and the Balrog. Yeah, it was well worth the ticket price. (And nice to spend some time with my parents :))
I've bought a series of String Quartet tribute CD's, one of U2's songs, and another two of Radiohead, one features just the songs from OK Computer, and the other has both earlier, and later music. Also found another interesting Tribute CD too for Radiohead, Christopher O'Riley's True Love Waits, which features beautiful interpretations of a variety of Radiohead songs for the Piano. Brilliant!!
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