We’ll be doing four performances of the Lord of the Rings Symphony. Howard Shore himself will be conducting the performances. I presume that my choir obtained copies of the score directly from Mr Shore and his management according to the normal music licensing / contractual arrangements for commercial performances.
The only languages other than English that we ever sang in (in high school chorus) were Latin, French, Yiddish, and Ebonics. No, really. We sang “Ezekiel Saw The Wheel” and the choir director insisted we sing it in these horrible Sambo accents. 100 white kids from upstate New York, singing “uh-zeek-ull saw da wheel, way up in da mi’d’l’ o’ da air” like … like … like some kind of awful black-faced vaudeville performers. It was degrading to everyone and everything involved, and moreover we sounded terrible.
Dude, your choir’s singing Styx? “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto”—what language’s that?
It sounds to me like the Japanese for “thanks very much”.