Howard Shore
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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a film composer.
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Early career
He was born in Toronto, Canada, and studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. From 1969 to 1972, he performed with the group Lighthouse. He was the musical director for the television show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980, appearing in many musical sketches including the All-Nurse Band and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi - Dan Ackroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic I'm a King Bee
Successes
One of the most successful and versatile film musicians of our day, he has written the music for such major film productions as Silence of the Lambs, the David Cronenberg remake of The Fly, Naked Lunch, Philadelphia, Ed Wood, Se7en, Dogma, High Fidelity, Panic Room and The Aviator, the last of which earned him a Golden Globe.
The Lord of the Rings
His greatest success to date is his score for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The score for the first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, gained him an Oscar in 2002, while the final film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King earned him another two Oscars (one for the score and one for the song "Into the West", sung by Annie Lennox) in 2004.
In 2004 he toured the world conducting local orchestras in the performance of his new symphonic arrangement of his highly acclaimed Lord of the Rings scores. The new work is entitled The Lord of the Rings: Symphony In Six Movements.
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