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Nin
Post subject: Music in the Hobbit
Posted: Sun 01 Feb , 2009 2:09 pm
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Friday evening I went to a concert given by the sister of M's ex and her students. She teaches ancient music (pre-baroque). One of her students is named Dana Howe - his parents came to the concert and bingo: his father was John Howe.

After recovering from the heart attack about dining after the concert in the company of the musicians and their family, I was for most of the diner too shy to abord Mr. Howe. After all, he had come to listen to his son and to be in family... and just imagine how terrible it must to meet people all the time who tell you: "Aren't you John Howe?"... etc. etc.

However, when saying good bye, I admitted my LOTR passion and he told me (he is a very quiet, very shy person, not very out-going by himself) I should have talked to him before. Well....

But then, he told me that he used the passion of his son for drawings about historical instruments and that he had drawn several for the Hobbit and talked to Howard Shore about the possibility of putting more ancient music played on original instruments in the sound-track.

Sorry, I just wanted to share that bit of information and show-off....

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ToshoftheWuffingas
Post subject: Re: Music in the Hobbit
Posted: Sun 01 Feb , 2009 3:27 pm
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Cool!

(Can't think of saying anything more intelligent but envy you that evening. Doesn't shyness get in the way of rewarding experiences? :blackeye: )

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Jude
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Posted: Sun 01 Feb , 2009 4:30 pm
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I love ancient music. :love: I do hope we get some in The Hobbit.

(are we talking Renaissance, Medieval, or truly ancient?)

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Ara-anna
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Posted: Sun 01 Feb , 2009 11:23 pm
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Wow.

It's cool that he said he talked about using ancient music on The Hobbit.



Nin,
Can you adopt all of us next time so we can come as family. ;)

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Posted: Mon 02 Feb , 2009 12:17 am
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The earlier the better. :)

John Howe is such a legend! I am in total envy, Nin.

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LalaithUrwen
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Posted: Wed 11 Feb , 2009 4:38 am
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Wow! That's so awesome! You are lucky! :)

And that's neat info about the music. That would be so cool!

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