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  The other editions of Battle Beyond The Stars:
  – Rhino Movie Music RNSP 300
  Format : LP / Release Date: 1980

• Music conducted by : David Newman
  Sound engineer : Christopher Banninger

  "Roger Corman  gave me my first big break in films, and I owe him a debt for that."

  James Horner – Interview of Randall D. Larson, Cinemascore 10, 1982.

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  JAMES CAMERON TALKS JAMES HORNER

  Since his official statement and the two interviews published in late June 2015 in Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, James Cameron has not yet commented his collaboration with James Horner.   This month we finally heard the director recall his work with James Horner, share anecdotes and above all superbly evoke the personality of the composer.   First, in the Blu-ray edition of 'Score: A Film Music Documentary' directed by Matt Schrader and released on September 4. James Cameron appears throughout the closing credits and returns to the famous portrait scene in Titanic. This passage is actually an excerpt from a longer 29-minute interview[...]

  

  NEW HORNER COMPILATION CD FOR SOLO PIANO ANNOUNCED

  A new album titled Braveheart: The Film Music of James Horner for Solo Piano has been published by BuySoundtrax Records (BSX), the label that brought us Humanoids from the Deep and Battle Beyond the Stars in 2011. Arranged and performed by Dan Redfeld, the album features selections from some of Horner’s best-loved scores, including The Wedding from Deep Impact, The Ludlows from Legends of the Fall, and Rocketeer to the Rescue from The Rocketeer. It also features some less prominent pieces, such as the love themes from Krull and Battle Beyond the Stars, and Darby’s Theme from The Pelican Brief.[...]

  

  STAR TREK II ARCHIVES: STARLOG AND CINEFANTASTIQUE

  As part of the writing of Episode 6 of Fond Memories, we found two articles originally published in Cinefantastique and Starlog. We propose them as transcripts below. Special thanks to Ken Hanley (Fangoria), Randall D. Larson, Chodisetti-Ravi Shankar Chandra, Byron Brassel and John Andrews.   Going back in time to October 1982, from the 63rd issue of the famous, long since deceased Starlog magazine, comes a geriatric interview with a young James Horner about the scoring of the endearing cinematic triumph: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Having been written in a time when the name James Horner was not known to[...]

  

  FOND MEMORIES - EPISODE 3: 1978-1980 - THE ROGER CORMAN MOVIES

  This third episode of Fond Memories discusses the four scores James Horner wrote for Roger Corman. If you have any information that could supplement this episode, please do not hesitate to contact us.   Soundtracks covered in this episode: The Lady in Red (1979) Up From The Depths (1979) Humanoids From The Deep (1980) Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)   “When I look at the low-budget films I did, I say "God", but you have to remember they were structurally important to me, I learned my craft with them. I knew nothing about scoring movies until I started working on student films and low-budget films. So while I[...]

  

  AUSTRALIA, 1991: JAMES HORNER SEMINARS

  Having published interviews given in the early 80's to the CinemaScore magazine (see our article), we continue our exploration of the archives of the past with the publication of the two seminars which James Horner participated in, December 1991 in Australia.   That year, the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) was celebrating film music with a series of courses and activities to recognize and celebrate the contribution that music makes to the screen experience. James Horner had made the trip to take part in a variety of national activities intended to stimulate an atmosphere of appreciation for the work of[...]

  

  CINEMASCORE COMBINED HORNER ARTICLES

  The early 1980s was a watershed time in film music. After the success of Star Wars, studios began producing a flood of science fiction/fantasy & action/adventure films, calling for magical, exciting, and densely orchestrated music. A whole new crop of young composers were stepping up to the challenge.   It was an exciting time to be a fan of film music; but it was also a lonely time. The robust, inter-connected community of soundtrack lovers did not exist. Film Score Monthly and jwfan.com did not exist. There was no group known as Fans of Film Music. No composer pages, no FilmTracks soundtrack[...]

  

  DAVID NEWMAN

    David Newman (born in Los Angeles, California on March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor, and is noted especially for his film scores. In a career spanning forty years, Newman has composed music for 100 feature films. His music for the film ‘Anastasia’ (1997) earned him an Academy Award nomination for the score. He composed films such as The War of the Roses in 1989, Other People's Money in 1991, Hoffa  in 1992, Matilda in 1996 and Galaxy Quest in 1999. His music for the animated film Ice age (2002) earned him an Award nomination for Best Music in[...]

  

  ROGER CORMAN

  Par JaSunni at PicasaWeb [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Roger Corman (born April 5, 1926 in Michigan, Detroit) is an American director. He directed 50 movies and produced 400 ones. He discovered talents like Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante and Jonathan Demme. He established critical reputation with his adaptations from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and he also won an Academy Award in 2009 for his work.  Source: Wikipedia     Unreleased projects:                                 © New World Pictures [...]

  

  JAMES CAMERON

  Angela George [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, and editor. In 1971, he shifted to United States to fulfill his dream of becoming a film director, and he worked as a truck driver to support his screen writing desire. In 1980 he got his first professional film job where he worked as an art director for the film Battle Beyond The Stars. In 1981 he directed this first film Piranha Part Two: The Spawning but he made his mark on Hollywood in following years where he had[...]

  
  

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