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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer. He was the first band leader on Saturday Night Live.
He is also a prolific composer of concert works; his first opera, The Fly, based on the plot (though not his score) of Cronenberg's 1986 film premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on Date 2008-07-02.
Shore is a three-time winner of the Academy Award, and has also won two Golden Globe Award and four Grammy Awards.
He is the uncle of composer Ryan Shore.
Early life and careerShore was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of Bernice (née Ash) and Mac Shore. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. From 1969 to 1972, he performed with the group Lighthouse. In 1970 he was the music director of Lorne Michaels and Hart Pomerantz's short-lived TV program The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour. Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magical/musical Spellbound in 1974, and he was the musical director for Lorne Michaels' hugely influential late-night NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980, appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic ''I'm a King Bee. Shore also suggested the name for The Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
SuccessesShore has written the music for such various major film productions as the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Silence of the Lambs, Mrs
. Doubtfire, Philadelphia, Ed Wood, Se7en, Dogma, High Fidelity, Panic Room, The Departed and The Aviator, the last of which earned him a Golden Globe. Since The Brood in 1979, he has been a consistent collaborator with David Cronenberg, scoring all his subsequent films except The Dead Zone (1983, scored by Michael Kamen). His score for Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is notable for his collaboration with famed avant-garde jazz musician Ornette Coleman.
The Lord of the RingsSince 2004, he has 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. There are two movements for each of the movies, and an intermission between the second and third (or first and second, in some cases) movements. The concert presentation of the symphony also includes projected still images relating the music being performed to scenes from the films. Recently, however, Shore has been busy with other projects, leaving other conductors including Markus Huber, Alexander Mickelthwaite, and John Mauceri to lead the orchestras.
April 24, 2008 marked the North American Live to Projection debut of Fellowship of the Ring, with the score performed live by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ludwig Wicki. Wicki also conducted the Filene Center Orchestra at the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia on May 21 and 22, 2008 in the U.S. premiere of the Fellowship of the Ring Live to Projection.
Shore will return to the themes of Middle-earth when he scores The Hobbit film duology, to be released in 2011 and 2012.
King KongAlthough Shore was originally commissioned to compose the soundtrack for King Kong (indeed, he had already recorded most of the music), he was later replaced by James Newton Howard due to "differing creative aspirations for the score" on his and the filmmakers' parts. This was a mutual agreement between himself and Peter Jackson.
Despite this, Shore has a cameo near the end of King Kong as the conductor of the pit orchestra in the theater.
Miscellanytrivia - Shore makes a cameo appearance on film in The Return of the King (extended edition) as a Guard of Rohan, during the drinking game at Edoras.
- Shore was played by Neil Portnow in the 1989 film version of Bob Woodward's book Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.
- Shore was commissioned by Macy's to write a Fanfare for the Store's 150th anniversary featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wanamaker Organ, the world's largest playing pipe organ. The work was debuted in the Grand Court of Macy's Philadelphia Store on September 27, 2008 in a concert that drew reviews from most of the major East Coast newspapers.
- Included in the soundtrack to the film "The Departed", was a version of the song "Comfortably Numb", written in part by Roger Waters. Shore later collaborated with Waters on the song "Hello, I Love You" for the soundtrack of the film "The Last Mimzy".
- With John Lurie, Shore wrote the theme song for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The theme would be carried over to The Tonight Show'' when O'Brien succeeded Jay Leno as host.
AwardsShore has received three Academy Award nominations, winning all of them, two for Best Original Music Score, for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He also won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Into the West" from "Return of the King.
Shore has also received four Golden Globe nominations, winning two consecutive awards for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Aviator (2004). He also won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Score for each of the Lord of the Rings films, and received a second award for Into the West from "Return of the King" in the category of Best Song. He has also received five BAFTA nominations, but has not won.
On June 11, 2007, Shore was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from York University in Toronto for "his sweeping artistic vision".
Shore has also been honored with awards from The National Board of Review, Recording Academy Honors, The Broadcast Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics, Genie Award, World Soundtrack Award, New York's Gotham Award, and The Saturn Award for Science Fiction.
Shore is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Science Fiction Feature Film for The Last Mimzy.
Filmography- The Brood (1979)
- Scanners (1981)
- Videodrome (1983)
- After Hours (1985)
- The Fly (1986)
- Big (1988)
- Dead Ringers (1988)
- Naked Lunch (1991)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- The Client (1994)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- ''Nobody's Fool (1994)
- Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
- Se7en (1995)
- Crash (1996)
- That Thing You Do! (1996)
- The Game (1997)
- Cop Land (1997)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Analyze This (1999)
- Dogma (1999)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- The Cell (2000)
- The Yards (2000)
- The Score (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Oscar Winner & Golden Globe nominee) (2001)
- Gangs of New York (2002)
- Panic Room (2002)
- Spider (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Golden Globe & Oscar Winner) (2003)
- The Aviator (Golden Globe Winner) (2004)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- The Departed (2006)
- Soul of the Ultimate Nation (MMORPG) (2007)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
- Eastern Promises (Golden Globe Nominee) (2007)
- Doubt (2008)
- The Betrayal (2008)
- The Hobbit (2011)
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