LoTR music

[kip_w]

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This page has mp3 links to de Meij's Symphony #1, "The Lord of the Rings." I haven't listened to it yet, as I must off to work soon, but I'll probably give it an ear or two there. So for now, I'm passing it along without more comment. Enjoy, I hope.

[Edited to be, like, more accurate -- thanx, Calimac! I hope rwl sees your comment. He was wondering how the music was, and I didn't know yet.]
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Comments

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

Dang, that's a cool site. I will go back to it a lot. I'm doing data entry for a few hours this morning so I'll give "Lord of the Rings" a listen.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I always have liked Leroy Anderson. They have his "greatest hit" there, and also "A Trumpeter's Lullaby," which is sweet and up to his invariable standards of craftsmanship. I'm just sorry they don't have "Bugler's Holiday" up there. It's my favorite Anderson, and about the only one that's IM POSSIBLE to play on the piano. (I play Trumpeter's Lullaby, Blue Tango, and Sleigh Ride out of my black book, and if I had room for more, I'd have Syncopated Clock in there too, but what are you going to do, eh?)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I meant to say, the thing that impressed the socks off of me about Anderson is that most of his greatest hits were written in a particular length because they were created to fill up the odd sides of 78 albums from the Boston Pops. And so many of them are, to me anyway, real gems.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Makes me wish I had cable again (crappy D.S.L. is taking a year and a day to load).
So, you didn't tell me you got a LJ.
PLIBBIT!
Consider yourself friended.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I know this work well: I've had a recording on CD for years. It's an excellent work for band, very much in the British band tradition, though the composer is Dutch. Each movement is a character portrait except for the fourth, a little tone poem depicting the journey through Moria, starting very quietly and building up to a terrific climax in which the theme from the Gandalf movement falls into the abyss.

The composer's full name is Johan de Meij, by the way (surname pronounced roughly d'may). Though filed correctly under M, the Air Force wrote "Meij" and not the correct "de Meij". You wrote "Meiji" which would be Japanese, I guess.