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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@maxtofone 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@elenidasoriolapay1905 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@richardplate8255 3 жыл бұрын

He lives the dream

@gkgyver 3 жыл бұрын

Occasionally doing music myself, there's nothing better than complete silence to do it

@AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet 5 жыл бұрын

There's not a real comfortable nature to it. There has to be some struggle to create something of value. Golden words.

@thefrayfann 4 жыл бұрын

Alexey Filippenko amen

@TB1M1 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@R4Y2k 5 жыл бұрын

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

@davecrupel2817 4 жыл бұрын

@@Lasmelan that would be acceptable too!

@jadonharper1493 3 жыл бұрын

Lasmelan he has to play his writings on piano as well

@jenm1638 Ай бұрын

A genius. So much emotional intelligence, much more insightful and sensitive than most people on this earth. nothing more to say

@attentionlabel 4 жыл бұрын

This man has shaped my life, for sure.

@Yeroen 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@jadonharper1493 3 жыл бұрын

Yeroen reading the books while listening to lotr soundtrack, pure heaven.

@sangipod 3 жыл бұрын

LotR would never have been the same without Shore.

@milehiaviation 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@seanmc9410 2 жыл бұрын

LOTR is the greatest book(s) ever written. It survived Peter Jackson’s bastardisation, largely down to Snr’s Shore & Howe.

@Annatar_Lord_of_Gifts Жыл бұрын

@@seanmc9410 Youre so cool dude

@boozalm3715 Жыл бұрын

@@seanmc9410 Mincer

@RobinsMusic Жыл бұрын

@@seanmc9410 Im so sorry you have to live with such a pessimistic mindset

@BartvanderHorst 7 жыл бұрын

That is an amazing man...

@lucapulcina 7 жыл бұрын

what a genius

@eddielopez2373 4 жыл бұрын

His home is amazing and I want it.

@thefrayfann 4 жыл бұрын

Eddie Lopez me too

@kaspianocz6330 4 жыл бұрын

It's not a home xxd

@XxxX-wx3er 3 жыл бұрын

Better start composing

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

@@XxxX-wx3er Better get a job in finance

@Omnicient. Жыл бұрын

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.

@selectgood_timesidfrommemo3192 3 жыл бұрын

The Mrs Doubtfire soundtrack is one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed.

@user-rl8qo7pm6r 5 жыл бұрын

He is an amazing musician.

@FreakieFan Жыл бұрын

The most inspiring video on composition I’ve ever seen

@pinguinamsuedpol2953 6 жыл бұрын

Composers are different kind of people... not in a bad way... but... different!

@ToastedCigar 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Richard_Nickerson 5 жыл бұрын

@@ToastedCigar Ditto

@flexprog3374 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@patgogan7324 5 жыл бұрын

Surreal composer tlotr was a testament to his life

@Needassistance 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautifully edited short on Howard Shore

@nathanfitzgerald6651 2 жыл бұрын

What a cool, interesting older guy! Mr. Shore's LOTR/Hobbit symphanies have stuck in my head for a very long time!

@ToastedCigar 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@amvlabs5339 Жыл бұрын

SUCH FURNITURE! SUCH FURNITURE!!!

@mjkcomposer 3 жыл бұрын

that is one of the most beautiful workspaces ive ever seen

@mihiershastri4499 3 жыл бұрын

There hasn't been a single day in last 3 years that I haven't heard his scores

@DavidHHermanson 4 жыл бұрын

So short! Too short! I want to ask a hundred questions or more.

@moritzrein2907 4 жыл бұрын

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!

@michelletewhata7768 Жыл бұрын

THE BOSS, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAV COMPOSER

@ChristopherGilsonIII 6 жыл бұрын

This warms the heart...

@FromthisInstanceOn 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@myearsarealite 5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating!! and what beautiful compositions!!

@esther-sb9dp 3 жыл бұрын

wow! To see this is a treasure, Howard is a real man, his inspiration...

@gabrield.cstoica1832 4 жыл бұрын

Yes....one Great Composer one Maestro.

@SolidKnight64 10 ай бұрын

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.

@theresekim 3 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful.

@louisdumont3247 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@soundtreks 8 ай бұрын

This might be my favourite piece of Shore’s. Next to his Fly score.

@athenaissocute 4 жыл бұрын

this is so cool i love it

@orestispapadopoulos8407 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Video...

@patrickhall7918 7 жыл бұрын

Great!

@jenkinsfamily2229 3 жыл бұрын

What a house!

@basenjiguitar 3 жыл бұрын

finally , I saw a classical composer room

@soundtreks 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if it was inspired by Mahler’s composing huts. I’d love to have a space like that to write music.

@emperor2097 3 жыл бұрын

The Great!

@scooteraventura4852 4 жыл бұрын

it's a genius.

@hayleecain389 3 жыл бұрын

My dream job... There is no gain without pain.

@Jeschneider 6 жыл бұрын

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

@DanielosVK 6 жыл бұрын

It's the first part of "Six Pieces", included on the "A Palace Upon the Ruins (Selected works)" album. :)

@RobertsPianosHouston 5 жыл бұрын

I have two questions watching this: what type of pencil is that? What size paper is that? Any ideas?

@Richard_Nickerson 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@remon563 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@falcodarkzz 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@WSUGLUE 4 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said. I imagine an entire book can be written on this. :)

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

It's a completely fabricated myth though that "struggling/tortured" artists create great art. And a dangerous mindset as well.

@remon563 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 :)!

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@vincentmattis530 3 жыл бұрын

Howard Shore and Richard Wagner are my idols and the best who ever lived. What is Williams what is Zimmer against that!!!

@joshuafischer684 3 жыл бұрын

Williams and Zimmer are both amazing too. Zimmer's score for Interstellar is fantastic and Williams' catalogue speaks for itself.

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

Williams is easily just as good as Shore. Zimmer, I agree. Not even in the same league (though I like most of his music).

@ToastedCigar 6 жыл бұрын

Could someone tell what are the songs used in the video?

@adamvalach8815 6 жыл бұрын

Ruin & Memory concerto

@ToastedCigar 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir!

@jeepers10710 6 жыл бұрын

WHATS IN THE BOXXXX

@alleyway3215 Жыл бұрын

Love the company of border collies. They're likely the most intelligent canine.

@OMACIHR 6 жыл бұрын

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.

@chabtheman8444 5 жыл бұрын

Alex R. Feo John Williams also

@OMACIHR 5 жыл бұрын

@@chabtheman8444 Great.. Read above.. I was (humbly..) talking about 'My Top5' / John Williams = 'My Top 10'.

@Richard_Nickerson 5 жыл бұрын

"International *Music Industry FACT* : In my humble *personal opinion* ..." You see no problem with this?

@Richard_Nickerson 5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@prodf 6 жыл бұрын

Bring Howard Shore to Star Wars !

@manuelantonioarizacastro9070 5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@raptor-rsr5756 5 жыл бұрын

definitely

@roflmao9999 5 жыл бұрын

John Williams is extremely good at it.

@Millez 5 жыл бұрын

@@roflmao9999 if they collaborated that'd be truly epic

@Itstwofourteen 5 жыл бұрын

@@roflmao9999 well, the spinoff movies have different composers, like John Powell and Michael Giacchino. Howard Shore would be a nice addition.

@keyibreand3840 2 жыл бұрын

Well at the end money do count!

@avishekdas2022 Жыл бұрын

1:48 to 2:18 name of the piece? (Which composition & which movement?)

@davidedmundtochi5228 3 жыл бұрын

what kind of pen is he using

@FreakieFan 2 жыл бұрын

I want to know too

@siddhantpetkar9728 5 жыл бұрын

1:22 track??

@thms6637 5 жыл бұрын

"Ruin & Memory: I. Andante Nobile" from the Howard Shore Album "Two Concerti"

@ragingbull888 3 жыл бұрын

His house is beautiful. Is this in Canada?

@XXensational 3 жыл бұрын

Tuxedo Park outside New York

@Omnicient. Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure that is his house as such; it may well be in the grounds of his house; a place to write.

@PhucNguyen-yn7ng 3 жыл бұрын

May I ask the name of the piece play from 5:55? Thanks so much :)

@FreakieFan Жыл бұрын

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

@PhucNguyen-yn7ng Жыл бұрын

@@FreakieFan wow thankyou so much! Thanks to your information, I found it on Spotify.

@FreakieFan Жыл бұрын

@@PhucNguyen-yn7ng It's the 1st one from Six Pieces. I just listened again

@PhucNguyen-yn7ng Жыл бұрын

@@FreakieFan It's a fantastic piece.

@FreakieFan Жыл бұрын

@@PhucNguyen-yn7ng It sure is! His concert music is amazing. I wish he wrote more

@Mrreowmeowmrreowmrowmeow 4 жыл бұрын

I came here for his music in Lord of the rings.

@SDSMOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Is anyone else wondering why it looks so much bigger on the inside then the outside.

@jamesanthony5681 5 жыл бұрын

Where is his house?

@yannsoulet4808 5 жыл бұрын

Wtf 😂

@jamesanthony5681 5 жыл бұрын

@@ricksmith4145 Thanks.

@jamesanthony5681 5 жыл бұрын

@@ricksmith4145 I've no intent to do so. Just curious as to the location of the house. Thanks.

@davecrupel2817 5 жыл бұрын

Why would that be public knowledge?

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.