Riverfront Timesspeaks with Paul Hahn, who helped prepare the St. Louis Symphony Chorus' pronunciation for this weekend's performance on the LOTR Symphony.
Choice quote:
What does the ring’s leitmotif sound like?
[after whistling the piece] I read somewhere the composer has it rising-falling, as if it were breath because he wanted to convey that the ring was a living thing.”
Gee, wonder where he got that! :)
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