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AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY HONORS JAMES HORNER

On Saturday, November 13, the film Apollo 13 was screened with an orchestra performing James Horner's music live to picture. This Film Concerts Live entry was premiered in July 2018 with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestras then began programming this concert, first with the City Light Symphony Orchestra of Luzern last May, following with dates already planned for 2020 in the United States and Europe. This type of event, which brings together a film projected on a large screen and an orchestra, has been very popular in recent years. This makes it possible to introduce variety to the orchestras'[...]

APOLLO 13 EXPANDED EDITION: OUR EXCLUSIVE REVIEW

Time and again, Horner showed himself to be a master storyteller. His trick was always to latch onto the protagonist and follow him or her through the requisite and tumultuous transformation process. When he was asked to score Apollo 13 in 1995, all that had to go out the window, because Ron Howard’s well-regarded account of the troubled moon mission was, first and foremost, a documentary. The focus of the piece is on events (such as the daunting problems the astronauts faced in getting back home) and concepts (such as NASA, space, defeat and success), and those were the elements[...]

THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF APOLLO 13 AVAILABLE AT INTRADA

It's still Christmas! Almost a quarter of a century after the film's release, Intrada announces their double CD for the music of Apollo 13 (1995) When copies of the Apollo 13 soundtrack hit shelves in the summer of 1995, listeners who came looking for the original score discovered that the music of James Horner was poorly represented, with only 7 pieces totaling about forty minutes, diluted among eight songs and many excerpts of dialogue. The producers chose a commemorative album, not a presentation of the original composition (a follow-up album, released a little later with a second CD only featured[...]

[REVIEW] JAMES HORNER: A LIFE IN MUSIC AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

A few days after the death of James Horner, Robert Folk had suggested on Facebook the idea of producing a tribute concert bringing together his closest collaborators. Three and a half years later, this concert finally took place, thanks to Avex Classics, already responsible for Titanic Live and Aliens Live.   Vocalist Clara Sanabras, who worked with James Horner on For Greater Glory (2011), and legendary Irish bagpiper Eric Rigler (Braveheart, Titanic) were on stage. The collaborators Simon Rhodes, faithful sound engineer since 1998, and Joe E Rand, musical publisher on about thirty projects, were among the spectators. Sara, wife of[...]

THE WORDS OF JAMES HORNER #3: TITANIC

To celebrate the release of Titanic in 4 CD edition by La-La Land (see our exclusive review here) we publish an archival interview of James Horner published in 1998 in the French magazine Dreams To Dream. This interview was originally published in French, English and German in issue 10 of Dreams to Dream...s. Two other unpublished interviews in English and related to Titanic will follow: one very short on the conception of the album Back To Titanic, the other dating from 2005 at the release of the Special Collector's Edition DVD of the film by James Cameron. Recall: The Words of[...]

STANDOUT SET PIECES #1: THE LAUNCH FROM APOLLO 13

Scoring the moment refers to the practice of just trying to make the most out of individual scenes. Far too many film composers do it and incompetent directors love it (mostly because many of them wouldn’t know how else to score a movie), but you’ve guessed by now that the phrase has quite a negative ring to it. That’s mainly because the short-sighted focus on one individual scene after another makes storytellers forget what they’re actually doing: telling a story. And a story, as you will most certainly understand, is much more than a sequence of moments. Ever since the ancient[...]

IT’S LOGICAL – EPISODE 3: MAGICAL ENCOUNTERS

"It's logical" is a series of articles about the logical construction, the coherence, the visual, narrative, symbolic and emotional dimensions of the many and significant allusions and quotes that James Horner always peppered his work with.   [divider]SNEAKERS, APOLLO 13, ALL THE KING'S MEN[/divider]   Beyond the colors of the piano, Sally Stevens and Darlene Koldenhoven’s ethereal vocals and Branford Marsalis’s warm saxophone, Sneakers (1992) features a mysterious and captivating theme. All of its statements accompany interactions between the movie’s two antagonists, Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kinsley). This theme first appears in a particularly high-speed statement four seconds into the Main Title, where[...]

DUBLIN 2015: A TRIBUTE TO JAMES HORNER

In the months that have passed since James Horner’s tragic death last June, already several tribute concerts have been performed around the world. These events serve both to preserve the composer’s legacy and also remind us that Horner’s body of work now fully belongs to the history books of music. One of the first concerts that was announced and performed took place in Dublin in September. Performed by the RTE Concert Orchestra, conducted by the well known conductor David Brophy, the concert offered several highlights from Horner’s career. We were fortunate enough to be invited to one of the rehearsals,[...]

BAFTA GURU: A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES HORNER

29 April 2015. With host Tommy Pearson and a small audience, an important 75 minutes was to unfold. It is disheartening to note that this, a typical but always insightful interview with Tommy Pearson, would be the last interview our late maestro would give before his sudden passing on June 22, 2015. With this in mind, the angelic manners of James Horner's conveyance of thought are ever more heartbreaking as he describes some of his career highlights and passions to Tommy and the audience. His wonderfully unique way thinking and speaking those thoughts will be as sorely missed as the mystical[...]

ENEMY AT THE GATES: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EAST

"I am a stone … I do not move…" Opening shot: two characters hunched down in the snow... immobile... waiting... silent. The strands of music come and go, thin and crystal-clear. (James Horner actually has built-in pauses for this scene, truly a rarity in film scoring.) The music is in a state of suspension, mirroring the calm before the storm that is about to descend upon Stalingrad. The music breathes as the characters do, with eerie strings drifting through the scales, reflecting the glances that the hunters and prey interchange. Acting instinctively, the old hunter is torn between hunger and fear,[...]

BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND SENSITIVITY: TWO DISSECTED UNTRUTHS

Everybody has a right to judge James Horner's music and not to like it. Generally this disenchantment is reflected in terribly pejorative verbs such as dig up, borrow, pump, copy, plagiarize ... The kind of actions the composer is accused of, putting forward the idea of ‌‌a lazy craftsman's poor and sloppy work: the pickaxe as an unsubtle tool, borrowing as a sign of weakness, pumping for large quantities, copying for the lack of creativity, plagiarism as a lack of respect towards the other composers. It is difficult to go against this phenomenon because the allegations are undeniable: Indeed, it is indisputable[...]

DAVID MARQUETTE

  David Marquette is a music recordist. He is often part of scoring crews.         [...]

DVD / BLU-RAY

[divider]ALIENS (1986)[/divider] Aliens - Two-Disc Collector's Edition [Dvd 2004] Alien Quadrilogy [Dvd 2004]   Documentary title: The Final Countdown Sequence time: 9'22 James Horner reflects on the difficult conditions in which he had to compose and record the soundtrack. He says that when he arrived in London, the film was not completed. He therefore composed 97 minutes of music within 15 days. The aging equipment during recording sessions, sleepless nights and icy relations with producer Gale Anne Hurd, are all explained in this documentary. © 20th Century Fox [divider]THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)[/divider] The Amazing Spider-Man - Four-Disc Combo [BLU-RAY 3d / Blu-Ray / Dvd / Ultraviolet Digital Copy] (2012) The[...]

AWARDS / NOMINATIONS

AWARDS ACADEMY AWARD (1997) Best Original Score Titanic ACADEMY AWARD (1997) Best Original Song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD (1998) Favorite Soundtrack Album Titanic GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD (1997) Best Original Score Titanic GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD (1997) Best Original Song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic GOLDEN SATELLITE AWARD (2002) Best Original Song All Love Can Be from A Beautiful Mind GRAMMY AWARD (1998) Song of the Year My Heart Will Go On from Titanic GRAMMY AWARD (1998) Record of the Year My Heart Will Go On from Titanic GRAMMY AWARD (1998) Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television My Heart Will Go On from Titanic GRAMMY AWARD (1990) Best Instrumental Composition[...]

ANNIE LENNOX

  Annie Lennox (born on 25 December 1954) is a British singer, author and composer. With Dave Stewart, she formed the duo Eurythmics, a leading British pop group of the 1980s. Her solo career began in 1992 and in 2004 she won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the song Into the West, from the soundtrack of the movie The Return of the King. Annie Lennox has sold over 80 million discs. Source: Wikipedia Official site: AnnieLennox.com   [...]

THE HOLLYWOOD FILM CHORALE

  The Hollywood Film Chorale is a choir created by American singer Sally Stevens. Unlike other choirs, the number of members is not set. The smaller number of singers was 16, and the largest formation had 72 people for Snow Falling On Cedars by James Newton Howard.   Official site: Hollywoodfilmchorale.com   [...]

IAN UNDERWOOD

© keiko matsui Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is an outstanding multi-instrumentalist, best known for being a member of The Mothers of Invention after being drafted by Frank Zappa. He is a graduate of Yale University with a degree in composition in 1961, and an MA in composition of the University of Berkeley in 1966. He began his career playing in San Francisco cafes and bars in the Bay Area with his group of jazz improvisation. In 1967 he became a member of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention for their third solo album. In 1973 he pursued a career as[...]

STEVEN BRAMSON

Steven Bramson is a composer who composed the music of Young Indiana Jones and JAG. He is also an excellent pianist who played with important jazz figures during the Montreux Jazz Festival.   Official site: stevenbramson.com Source: wikipedia     [...]

HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYMPHONY

© Scoring Sessions Hollywood Studio Symphony is a symphony orchestra and is credited on many blockbusters like the Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Jurassic Park 3. They should not be confused with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, a more traditional orchestra.   Official site : hollywoodstudiosymphony.com Source : wikipedia           [...]

RON HOWARD

Par David Shankbone (Travail personnel) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Ron Howard (born in Duncan, Oklahoma, USA, on March 1, 1954) is a renowned American film director and producer. In 1977, he directed his first film Grand Theft Auto (he starred and also wrote the script). The film was successful and it was a good start for his directorial career. He went on to direct many successful films in later years, including Cocoon, Willow, Backdraft, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code and Frost/Nixon. He received his first Best Director of the Year award from the DGA for[...]

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