JAMES HORNER – THE CLASSICS – AN INTERVIEW WITH SOLOIST TINA GUO
July 21, 2018 | Basil Boehni 3
On August 10, 2018, Sony Classical will release a tribute album about the highly acclaimed film composer James Horner, who died in a plane crash on June 22, 2015. Horner would have celebrated his 65th birthday on August 14, 2018. … Read More
FOR GREATER GLORY: AN ANALYSIS AND AN INTERPRETATION
June 24, 2018 | Kjell Neckebroeck 2
When in 2011 James Horner was offered the Mexican-made Cristiada (re-titled For Greater Glory for its international release), he realized he was placing himself in the service of the faith crowd. And faith-based movies are invariably a risky proposition. … Read More
STANDOUT SET PIECES #8: BUILDING TENSION
June 23, 2018 | Kjell Neckebroeck 1
James Horner always focused on story and especially character. Famously (within the Horner community at least), he once stated in the context of his two Star Trek scores that it was always about Spock and Kirk and … Read More
THE WORDS OF JAMES HORNER #6: THE MASK OF ZORRO
June 22, 2018 | Jean-Baptiste Martin 1
Three years after James Horner’s passing, we thought we would bring together three interviews on The Mask of Zorro, whose soundtrack album was released twenty years ago, in October 1998. The rather short first interview was the introduction to a … Read More
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MARK HERMAN
June 21, 2018 | John Andrews 2
This year, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is turning ten years old. Since its release in 2008, the film has become something of a “modern classic.” Educators commonly show it in schools as a teaching tool and, even though … Read More
TITANIC’S VOICES: ARCHIVAL INTERVIEWS WITH SISSEL AND CÉLINE DION
June 20, 2018 | Jean-Baptiste Martin
The end of 2017 was marked by the expanded editions of Troy (2CD) and Titanic (4CD). After the three interviews with James Horner, who plunged us into the heart of the score composed for James Cameron’s film, we publish the … Read More
TROY’S VOICES: ARCHIVAL INTERVIEWS WITH JOSH GROBAN AND TANJA TZAROVSKA
June 19, 2018 | Jean-Baptiste Martin 2
The end of 2017 was marked by the expanded editions of Troy (2CD) and Titanic (4CD). After the interview with James Horner, who plunged us into the heart of the score composed for Wolfgang Petersen’s film, we publish the words … Read More
MEMORIES OF LONDON AND STAVANGER BY KARIM CHAMMAS
June 18, 2018 | James Horner Film Music
When Jean-Baptiste asked me if I wanted to write something regarding Cristiada, I looked up the only two texts I have ever written regarding James. One in 2011 after the visit at Abbey Road for the old … Read More
JACK THE BEAR EXPANDED ALBUM FROM LA-LA LAND
June 5, 2018 | John Andrews 1
La-La Land Records has announced an expanded and remastered edition of James Horner’s score for Jack The Bear, limited to 1500 copies. Although the film is from 1993, this score was not published until 2001, as Intrada … Read More
JAMES HORNER – THE CLASSICS, THE SONY CLASSICAL TRIBUTE ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED IN AUGUST!
May 13, 2018 | Jean-Baptiste Martin 3
In February we announced the upcoming release of a tribute album at Sony Classical. The news was leaked via videos posted on social networks by Chinese-American cellist Tina Guo where she performed Cocoon and Avatar. Today still … Read More
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