Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore , [ˈhaʊˌəd ˈlɛzlɪ ˈʃɔə] ( BrE ) or [ˈhaʊərd ˈɫezɫɪ ˈʃɔr] ( AmE ), (born October 18, 1946 in Toronto , Ontario ) is an award-winning Canadian conductor and composer of film , chamber and concert music . The three-time Oscar winner is best known today for his music for the film trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit .
Life
Shore studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston . Between 1969 and 1972 he made recordings with the group Lighthouse . Shore became known as the band's co-founder and musical director on the NBC show Saturday Night Live . From 1975 to 1980 he conducted the show's band.
Howard Shore has composed the score for a variety of feature films. His very different works include the settings of Das Schweigen der Lämmer , Philadelphia , Ed Wood , Sieben , Panic Room and The Aviator . The long-term collaboration with the Canadian director David Cronenberg , for whom he has underlayed numerous films with music , also plays an important role in his work . a. Die Fliege , Naked Lunch , Spider and A History of Violence .
His most famous work is the music for the Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson . According to Shore, he studied the opera Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner intensively for the leitmotif technique used in this piece . Shore arranged the compositions for the three films into a suite consisting of six movements for the concert hall.
In an interview with Emanuel Levy, he calls the almost four years that he has spent on The Lord of the Rings the most challenging and grateful task of his career and describes it as the summary of his artistic work.
In 2005 Howard Shore worked on the score for Peter Jackson's new film project, King Kong . Because of "different creative views", however, James Newton Howard was committed to Shore's place after a few weeks . However, Shore and Jackson have teamed up again for the filming of another Tolkien work and Shore composed the music for the trilogy The Hobbit , the first part of which was released in 2012.
In addition to his work as a film composer, Shore is also active in the field of chamber and concert music. The world premiere of his opera adaptation of the film Die Fliege (The Fly) took place on July 2, 2008 at the Théâtre du Châtelet . For the pianist Lang Lang he composed the piano concerto Ruin and Memory , which was premiered at the Beijing Music Festival 2010. He dedicated his cello concerto Mythic Gardens , which can be seen as a counterpart to it, to the cellist Sophie Shao , who premiered the piece on April 27, 2012 with the American Symphony Orchestra.
Howard Shore is the uncle of the Canadian composer Ryan Shore .
Awards
On February 18, 2016, the IMDb received 77 film awards and 98 further nominations.
Shore received his first Oscar and a Grammy for the score for The Companions (The Lord of the Rings) . In 2004 a Grammy, two Golden Globes and two Oscars were added. In 2005 he received two Grammys again, this time for the score for the third part of the trilogy and the song Into the West ( Annie Lennox ). In 2005 Howard Shore received the Golden Globe Award for the soundtrack to the film Aviator and in 2010 the first-ever film music award of the Bavarian Radio. As part of the film music gala “Hollywood in Vienna” at the Wiener Konzerthaus , Shore received the “Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award” from City Councilor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny on September 16, 2010 from the City of Vienna .
Filmography (selection)
- 1978: Under the Spell of Death (I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses)
- 1979: The Brood (The Brood)
- 1981: Scanners - Your Thoughts Can Kill (Scanners)
- 1983: Videodrome
- 1984: Nothing Lasts Forever
- 1985: The time after midnight (After Hours)
- 1986: The Fly (The Fly)
- 1986: Fire with Fire - Forbidden Passion (Fire with Fire)
- 1987: All About Heaven (Heaven)
- 1987: Nadine - A Bulletproof Love (Nadine)
- 1988: Moving - Backward into Chaos (Moving)
- 1988: Big
- 1988: Dead Ringers (Dead Ringers)
- 1989: The devil (She-Devil)
- 1989: Lemon Sisters (The Lemon Sisters)
- 1989: Put on the cross by cops (An Innocent Man)
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs (The Silence of the Lambs)
- 1991: Naked Lunch
- 1991: A Kiss Before Dying (A Kiss Before Dying)
- 1992: Female, single, young seeks ... (Single White Female)
- 1992: Magical Times (Prelude to a Kiss)
- 1993: Al Pacino's Looking for Richard (Looking for Richard)
- 1993: Beyond Innocence (Guilty as Sin)
- 1993: M. Butterfly
- 1993: Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny (Mrs. Doubtfire)
- 1993: Philadelphia
- 1993: Sliver
- 1994: Ed Wood
- 1994: The client (The Client)
- 1994: Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run (Nobody's Fool)
- 1995: Moonlight and Valentino
- 1995: Seven (Se7en)
- 1995: Street of Vengeance (White Man's Burden)
- 1996: crash
- 1996: Lies Have Long Legs (The Truth About Cats & Dogs)
- 1996: Before and After (Before and After)
- 1997: The Game
- 1997: Cop Land
- 1999: Gloria
- 1999: eXistenZ
- 1999: Dogma
- 1999: Just a matter of nerves (Analyze This)
- 2000: High Fidelity
- 2000: Camera
- 2000: The Cell
- 2000: The Yards - In the backyard of power (The Yards)
- 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- 2001: The Score
- 2002: Panic Room
- 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
- 2002: Gangs of New York
- 2002: Spider
- 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
- 2004: Aviator (The Aviator)
- 2005: A History of Violence
- 2006: Departed - The Departed (The Departed)
- 2007: Mimzy - My Friend from the Future (The Last Mimzy)
- 2007: Deadly Promises - Eastern Promises (Eastern Promises)
- 2008: Question of Faith (Doubt)
- 2008: The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
- 2009: POV (episode: "The Betrayal") (Nerakhoon)
- 2010: Order Vengeance (Edge of Darkness)
- 2010: Eclipse - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
- 2011: A Dangerous Method (A Dangerous Method)
- 2011: Hugo Cabret (Hugo)
- 2012: Cosmopolis
- 2012: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- 2013: Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian
- 2013: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug)
- 2014: Maps to the Stars
- 2014: Rosewater
- 2014: The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)
- 2015: Spotlight
- 2016: denial (Denial)
- 2018: The Catcher Was a Spy
literature
- Howard Shore: "I'm already doing what I want musically!" Interview with Klaus Post. In: Cinema Musica. Issue 1 / July 2005, pp. 8-10.
Web links
- Howard Shore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website at howardshore.com (English)
- Profile at soundtrack.net (English)
- The Lord of the Rings Symphony on howardshore.com (English)
- Works by Howard Shore in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006290/
- ↑ https://www.klassikradio.de/kultur/kuenstler-und-klassikwissen-wiki/howard-shore
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/reference/
- ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/howard-shore-mn0000278644
- ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/howard-shore-mn0000278644
- ^ Emanuel Levy: Talking with Howard Shore on Film Music. In: emanuellevy.com . 2005, accessed May 23, 2008 .
- ^ The Fly ( French ) Théâtre du Châtelet . 2008. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
- ↑ Information ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on schott-musik.de
- ↑ Awards on imdb.com
- ↑ Information on vienna.at
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shore, Howard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shore, Howard Leslie (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer and conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Ontario, Canada |