The Nerd Event of the Social Season

By Rob Bricken August 13, 2009 Miscellaneous, Movies 0 Comment

Normally I try not to cover city-specific events on Topless Robot, because such a small portion of TR readers get to go to them. But this… this is worth mentioning, because I think many of you would be willing to make a road trip to attend.

Basically, the Radio City Music Hall will host a screening of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, but with Howard Shore’s score performed live by the 21st Century Orchestra, the Collegiate Chorale, the Brooklyn Youth chorus and soprano Kaitlyn Lusk. It should be just a tiny bit off-the-fucking-charts awesome. Tickets are anywhere between $50 and $150, which is a lot, but there’s a lot of other stuff going on at the concert, including talks and signings by Shore, a discussion with Tolkien linguist David Salo (the guy who translated all the choral lyrics for The Lord of the Rings scores), and more. Check out the official site for more info and tickets.

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.

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