Editing Howard Shore (section)

==Early life and career==
Shore was born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada, the son of [[History of the Jews in Canada|Jewish]]<ref>{{cite web |date=January 31, 2012 |title=Toronto's Jewish community will have lots to watch on Oscar night |url=http://www.jewishtribune.ca/uncategorized/2012/01/31/toronto |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703011455/http://www.jewishtribune.ca/uncategorized/2012/01/31/toronto |archive-date=July 3, 2015 |access-date=January 9, 2015 |publisher=Jewish Tribune |df=mdy-all}}</ref> parents Bernice (née Ash) and Mac Shore.<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Shore Biography (1946-)|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/61/Howard-Shore.html|work=Film Reference|publisher=Advameg, Inc.|access-date=March 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mac Shore|url=https://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/mac-shore-1117875524/|access-date=December 1, 2014|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 5, 2002|archive-date=April 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407122946/https://variety.com/2002/scene/people-news/mac-shore-1117875524/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He started studying music around the age of 8 or 9. He learned a multitude of instruments and began playing in bands at the ages of 13 and 14. When Shore was 13, he met and became good friends with a young [[Lorne Michaels]] in summer camp, and this friendship would later be influential in his career.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp7TJaF3uKc |title=Movie Geeks United Interview |date=April 14, 2012 |publisher=Movie Geeks United |access-date=January 28, 2014}}</ref> By 17, he decided he wanted to pursue music in his adult life too.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp7TJaF3uKc |title=Movie Geeks United Interview of Howard Shore |date=April 14, 2012 |publisher=Movie Geeks United |access-date=January 28, 2014}}</ref> He studied music at [[Berklee College of Music]] in [[Boston]] after graduating from [[Forest Hill Collegiate Institute]].<ref name="Greiving2016">{{cite news|last1=Greiving|first1=Tim|title=Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/before-he-won-oscars-for-his-music-composer-howard-shore-helped-kick-off-snl/2016/12/30/8ed22056-c6ce-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html|access-date=January 7, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Symkus2017">{{cite news|last1=Symkus|first1=Ed|title='Lord of the Rings' composer Howard Shore counts his achievements by the score|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/04/11/lord-rings-composer-howard-shore-counts-his-achievements-score/bgif4tXAlobM4NNLwaes7H/story.html|access-date=January 7, 2018|work=The Boston Globe|date=April 12, 2017}}</ref>

From 1969 to 1972, Shore was a member of the [[jazz fusion]] band [[Lighthouse (band)|Lighthouse]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Appelo|first1=Tim|title='Lord of the Rings' Composer Howard Shore on Scoring 80 Movies: "I Often Felt Like Frodo"|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lord-rings-composer-howard-shore-745730|access-date=January 7, 2018|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 5, 2014}}</ref> In 1970, he became the music director for [[Lorne Michaels]] and [[Hart Pomerantz]]'s short-lived TV program ''[[The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour]]''. Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician [[Doug Henning]]'s magic musical ''Spellbound'' in 1974 and, from 1975 to 1980, he was the musical director for Michaels' influential late-night NBC sketch comedy show ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last1=Steinblatt|first1=Jim|title=Howard Shore|url=https://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/filmtv/2004/shore.aspx|publisher=[[ASCAP]]|access-date=January 7, 2018}}</ref> appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a [[Dan Aykroyd]]/[[John Belushi]] performance of the [[Slim Harpo]] classic "[[I'm a King Bee]]". Shore also suggested the name for [[the Blues Brothers]] to Aykroyd and Belushi.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Zeman|first1=Ned|title=Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/01/making-of-blues-brothers-budget-for-cocaine|access-date=January 7, 2018|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=December 18, 2012}}</ref>