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• Orchestrations: Steve Bramson, Don Davis
  Ingénieur du son: Shawn Murphy
  Music editor: Jim Henrikson
  Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
  Studio: EMI Abbey Road Studios, Londres
   
  Reach For The Light
  Performed by Steve Winwood
  Music: Barry Mann and James Horner
  Lyrics: Cynthia Weil
  Orchestrations: Steve Winwood,Nathan DiGesare

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  WOLF TOTEM: JAMES AND THE WOLF

  Hardly for the first time in a career comprised of more than 130 film scores did James Horner cross paths with the wolf, a fascinating mammal and a source of countless stories, rumors and legends. Their first meeting dates back to 1981, when Wolfen, a horror thriller by Michael Wadleigh (Woodstock) saw Indians-turned-wolves create havoc in the streets of New York. Distressing brass embodied the wolf’s dark side and its sharp fangs, continually threatening tender and innocent flesh. This musical darkness was reprised a few years later with Aliens (1986), where it evoked the stifling atmosphere created by James Cameron, illustrating the[...]

  

  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[...]

  

  ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

  Oxyman [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI studios) are recording studios in London,England, founded in the year 1931. Their current name is a tribute to the eponymous album of The Beatles who recorded most of their songs there in the 1960s. Several famous bands have recorded there, such as Pink Floyd, and more recently, Oasis and Radiohead. Legendary music composers like John Williams used the studios to record the scores for five films of  Star Wars starting with ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in 1980, and composer James Horner has used Abbey Road Studios many times as his recording[...]

  

  STEVE WINWOOD*

    Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English multi-instrumentalist; he can play the keyboards, the bass guitar, the drums, the guitar, the mandolin, the violin, and other strings. In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Steve Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. He won two Grammy Awards. Source: Wikipedia Official site : stevewinwood.com   [...]

  

  BARRY MANN

  © Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. mann-weil.com Barry Imberman (born February 9, 1939 in Brooklyn) is an American songwriter. He achieved success with his wife and working partner Cynthia Weil. In May 2009, he wrote 635 songs and received 56 awards. He co-wrote the song You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin’ with his wife and Phil Spector, a song which is the most aired in the 20th century.   Official site: mann-weil.com Source: Wikipedia   [...]

  

  CYNTHIA WEIL

  © Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. mann-weil.com Cynthia Weil (born October 18, 1940 in New York) is an American songwriter. She is known for having written many songs with her husband Barry Mann. Since the 1960s, she has been one of the most famous musically creative and celebrated people.   Official site: mann-weil.com Source: Wikipedia     [...]

  

  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     [...]

  

  DON DAVIS

  © http://www.dondavis.net/ Donald Romain Davis (born February 4, 1957) is an American composer, conductor and orchestrator. A native from California, he was interested in music very early on, learning to play the trumpet at the age of nine and started to write short pieces by twelve. It was, above all, the jazz and rock genres that attracted him. After high school, he joined the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and continued his studies in composition with Henri Lazarof. Besides this, he learned orchestration with Albert Harris, who, during their sessions, presented him to the composer Joe Harnell (composer of the miniseries[...]

  

  LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

  RichTea [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons The London Symhony Orchestra is one of the main symphony orchestras in England and was founded in 1904. Enormous movie scores were recorded with this orchestra like Harry Potter, Star Wars and Superman.   Source : wikipedia     [...]

  
  

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