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Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18 , 1946 ) is a Canadian Film Composer , best known for composing the score to The Lord Of The Rings Film Trilogy . EARLY CAREER He was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Canada , and studied music at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston . From 1969 to 1972 , he performed with the group Lighthouse . He was the musical director for the television show '' Saturday Night Live '' from 1975 to 1980 , appearing in many musical sketches including the 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''. He also suggested the name for the Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi . SUCCESSES Shore is regarded by some as one of the most versatile film composers of our day, and has written the music for such major film productions as '' Silence Of The Lambs '', '' Philadelphia '', '' Ed Wood '', '' Se7en '', '' Dogma '', '' High Fidelity '', '' Panic Room '' 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 ). ''The Lord of the Rings'' His greatest success to date is his score for '', earned him another two Oscars (one for the score and one for the song " Into The West ", sung by Annie Lennox ) in 2004 . Since between the second and third 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. ''KING KONG'' Although Shore was originally slated 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. TRIVIA
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