Wagnerian Techniques in Film Scores: Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings
National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn his decades-long career as a musician, Doug Adams has remained in-demand as a performer, a composer/arranger, an author, and a lecturer. He was selected by Howard Shore to observe and document his work on The Lord of the Rings films – a score performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, eventually exceeding 13 hours, and consistently cited as one of the best film scores ever written.