Howard Shore: A Composer's Dream
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- This short film demonstrates how Howard Shore has distinguished himself as one of Canada's most accomplished - and versatile - composers.
During woodland rambles with his beloved dogs, Shore gives free rein to his ceaseless creativity. Whether composing delicate counterpoint or Oscar®-winning movie music, Shore is keenly tuned to a remarkable range of musical expression.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-operation with the National Arts Centre and the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation on the occasion of the 2011 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.
Directed by Barbara Willis-Sweete - 2011 | 7 min
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I find it so fascinating to see the man working at his desk in total silence with the companionship of his two dogs and surrounded by stunning nature... The result is such beautiful music.
His music is a product of a combination of one's passion, talent, the awesome, tranquil enviroment. One would surely be mesmerized by the depth of the emotion poured on each score sheets.
He lives the dream
Occasionally doing music myself, there's nothing better than complete silence to do it
There's not a real comfortable nature to it. There has to be some struggle to create something of value.
Golden words.
Alexey Filippenko amen
As with all things in life. It's a struggle to get into the state to when the music comes to you..it's a painful proccess.
If you're reborn, I want to be reborn as one of Howard Shores dogs so I can listen to him composing stuff the whole day :D
@@Lasmelan that would be acceptable too!
Lasmelan he has to play his writings on piano as well
LotR would never have been the same without Shore.
I agree. It's so integral to the themes, feelings, and atmosphere of all three movies. I would argue Howard Shore made them what they are. Not that the other aspects of the movies aren't great. But without the music being this good, the movies might've fallen short.
LOTR is the greatest book(s) ever written. It survived Peter Jackson’s bastardisation, largely down to Snr’s Shore & Howe.
@@seanmc9410 Youre so cool dude
@@seanmc9410 Mincer
@@seanmc9410 Im so sorry you have to live with such a pessimistic mindset
A genius. So much emotional intelligence, much more insightful and sensitive than most people on this earth. nothing more to say
This man has shaped my life, for sure.
I can't thank this man enough. It's been almost 20 years and still listen to this music like almost everyday. And even when it fades off for a couple of weeks or months, a small hint to anything related to Lotr takes me back to listen to the music again. Especially now when in winter when I started to read the books again.
Yeroen reading the books while listening to lotr soundtrack, pure heaven.
That is an amazing man...
Composers are different kind of people... not in a bad way... but... different!
I agree. Every person in the World is different, for sure, but composers are a "breed" of their own. I'm an amateur-composer and I've been always told that I am weird and always daydreaming etc.
@@ToastedCigar
Ditto
Thank you for this comment. Sometimes it is hard to be different, and I am really grateful that some people can understand and appreciate what I do and who I am.
what a genius
His home is amazing and I want it.
Eddie Lopez me too
It's not a home xxd
Better start composing
@@XxxX-wx3er
Better get a job in finance
I don't think it is his home as such; it's a place to write and may well be in the grounds of his home.
The Mrs Doubtfire soundtrack is one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed.
Surreal composer tlotr was a testament to his life
SUCH FURNITURE! SUCH FURNITURE!!!
The most inspiring video on composition I’ve ever seen
He is an amazing musician.
There hasn't been a single day in last 3 years that I haven't heard his scores
that is one of the most beautiful workspaces ive ever seen
What a cool, interesting older guy! Mr. Shore's LOTR/Hobbit symphanies have stuck in my head for a very long time!
What a beautifully edited short on Howard Shore
This is such an inspiring video. It's always a pleasure to watch a genius work, to me Shore is the best film composer ever.
So short! Too short! I want to ask a hundred questions or more.
As an aspiring novelist writing my own series, seeing someone live in peace in a spacious yet small house with room to think is a dream.
THE BOSS, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAV COMPOSER
Always when I need motivation for making music, I watch just the first two minutes of that Video and then booom! The creativity and motivation is endless!
This might be my favourite piece of Shore’s. Next to his Fly score.
just to say thank you for the Cosmopolis OST, one of the more meaningful pieces I have listened to countless times. absolute genius to be able to interpret visualisations into music and comprehend the duration of that music in your head and then to be able to convey that onto paper in silence wow.
Yes....one Great Composer one Maestro.
finally , I saw a classical composer room
I wonder if it was inspired by Mahler’s composing huts. I’d love to have a space like that to write music.
wow! To see this is a treasure, Howard is a real man, his inspiration...
This warms the heart...
Just beautiful.
Wonderful
it's a genius.
My dream job... There is no gain without pain.
International Music Industry FACT: In my humble personal opinion..= 'Howard Shore' is the Greatest Composer Alive, nowadays (for sure among the World's 'Top 5' with James Newton Howard..Mychael Danna..Danny Elfman..Harry Gregson-Williams..etc..). His use..of Composition Techniques is a
"mix of the best of the best..Tech..".
He uses his UNIQUE MUSIC INTUITION..when woking on his Harmony & Counterpoint (both together "at the same time.." = which is THE WAY..of doing it).
His Instrumentation..Orchestration..are SUPERB = Creating Truly Unique Atmospheres..
His Film Scores = yes you Listen to his Music..AND at the same time
YOU 'FEEL' HIS MUSIC=which..it's the purpose.
'The Silent of the Lambs' (to me..) is the Greatest Film Score EVER Created..Written..Composed..at All Levels.
Alex R. Feo John Williams also
@@chabtheman8444 Great.. Read above.. I was (humbly..) talking about 'My Top5' / John Williams = 'My Top 10'.
"International *Music Industry FACT* : In my humble *personal opinion* ..."
You see no problem with this?
@@OMACIHR
You're extremely difficult to understand. Your sentence structure is nonexistent, your use of punctuation is absurd, your grammar is just bad... you shouldn't be so rude to other people leaving comments who may not have understood you.
And even if they did understand you, you are publicly posting your opinion (which you have falsely qualified as a fact). Other people are allowed to state their opinions in response.
art is in essence similar to magic, if not is, since the same rules of balance apply; to create magic a tribute of energy is needed. Friction creates "ammunition" so to say. I think the human mind is built around this principle. It explains why the most creative are often the most suffered.
I think science is like magic, as it produced things nobody understands apart from the magicians. Art is communication, at least that's how I see it :) great art is the communion of the artists soul with the beholder.
Beautifully said. I imagine an entire book can be written on this. :)
It's a completely fabricated myth though that "struggling/tortured" artists create great art. And a dangerous mindset as well.
@@FreakieFan and.. why exactly ? I can only speak for myself that what I said is the case. Are you an artist as well ?
Suffering might not be mandatory for the creation of art but it certainly adds layers of complexity to the process. It is a fact that the most brilliant artists suffered immensely and used this suffering as fuel.
For these artists art was more than recreation; it was spiritual, it was religious, it was therapy. Artists turn to art like people turn to religion in times of peril. In religion peril/suffering is converted into love for the devine which is a vital, and some say essential, human
mechanic for survival.
Art is therefore closely related to religion ,as can be seen by the grand cultural achievements in our history perpetuated by religion, since it also has the ability to turn peril to pride, to turn hate to love.
Having said that, I do believe every human being is capable of making beautiful art :)!
@@remon563
Well, yes, I am a composer as well and I can tell you that when you're feeling depressed you're not creating anything, because all you want to do is not exist. You're not writing in those periods.
But I've also studied famously "tortured" composers of the past, like Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schumann, and most of the accounts I've read is that all of these composers in their depression periods hardly wrote anything, if at all. Even though it's widely believed that they created some of their masterpieces during depressions, which is just not true. Perhaps these composers used their depression as fuel for art AFTERWARDS (e.g. Rachmaninoff writing his second piano concerto AFTER a severe period of depression, NOT during), but certainly not during their bouts with depression.
At least from what I've read and researched.
Fascinating!! and what beautiful compositions!!
What a house!
this is so cool i love it
Beautiful Video...
Howard Shore and Richard Wagner are my idols and the best who ever lived. What is Williams what is Zimmer against that!!!
Williams and Zimmer are both amazing too. Zimmer's score for Interstellar is fantastic and Williams' catalogue speaks for itself.
Williams is easily just as good as Shore.
Zimmer, I agree. Not even in the same league (though I like most of his music).
Great!
The Great!
I have two questions watching this: what type of pencil is that? What size paper is that? Any ideas?
No idea on the pencil, but that looks to be standard orchestral notation paper.
The staffs are not hand written, and since they're in groupings of 4 as they are on the giant paper, I would have to say it's intended for string orchestra use.
Regrettably, despite being a composer, I don't know the proper term myself. I would refer to it as orchestra conductor notation paper.
My experience with notation paper is that it's described by how many staffs are on each sheet. I am unfamiliar with these huge conductor papers.
Love the company of border collies. They're likely the most intelligent canine.
Bring Howard Shore to Star Wars !
Agreed
definitely
John Williams is extremely good at it.
@@roflmao9999 if they collaborated that'd be truly epic
@@roflmao9999 well, the spinoff movies have different composers, like John Powell and Michael Giacchino.
Howard Shore would be a nice addition.
Thanks for this - Might I ask what the opening composition is? It doesn't appear to be part of Ruin and Memory..? Thanks in advance
It's the first part of "Six Pieces", included on the "A Palace Upon the Ruins (Selected works)" album. :)
Could someone tell what are the songs used in the video?
Ruin & Memory concerto
Thank you Sir!
Well at the end money do count!
1:48 to 2:18 name of the piece? (Which composition & which movement?)
WHATS IN THE BOXXXX
I came here for his music in Lord of the rings.
what kind of pen is he using
I want to know too
His house is beautiful. Is this in Canada?
Tuxedo Park outside New York
I'm not sure that is his house as such; it may well be in the grounds of his house; a place to write.
Is anyone else wondering why it looks so much bigger on the inside then the outside.
May I ask the name of the piece play from 5:55? Thanks so much :)
It’s one of the pieces from his album of concert music called A Palace Upon Ruins. It might be the titular piece or one from the Six Pieces set
@@FreakieFan wow thankyou so much! Thanks to your information, I found it on Spotify.
@@PhucNguyen-yn7ng
It's the 1st one from Six Pieces. I just listened again
@@FreakieFan It's a fantastic piece.
@@PhucNguyen-yn7ng
It sure is! His concert music is amazing. I wish he wrote more
1:22 track??
"Ruin & Memory: I. Andante Nobile" from the Howard Shore Album "Two Concerti"
Apparently he’s my cousin
Interesting, how?
Where is his house?
Wtf 😂
@@ricksmith4145 Thanks.
@@ricksmith4145 I've no intent to do so. Just curious as to the location of the house. Thanks.
Why would that be public knowledge?
@@davecrupel2817
You'd be surprised how easily you can find where 'celebrities' live. At least the general location or state. Not specific address.
Someone mentioned that this is outside of NYC, in New York State.
Seems a lonely one too