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Orchestrations: James Horner, Randy Kerber, J.A.C. Redford.

Sound engineer: Simon Rhodes

Vocal solos: Dhafer Youssef

Piano solos: James Horner

Additional vocal solos: Fahad Al-Kubaisi, Susheela Raman

Electronic music arranger: Simon Franglen

Music editor: Dick Bernstein

Orchestra contractor: Isobel Griffiths

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CINEMA MUSICA: INTERVIEW WITH JAMES HORNER

Conducted by Basil Boehni, Vice editor-in-chief of Cinema Musica. Held: 31 October 2011, in Frankfurt Am Main (Germany). Published in Cinema Musica in April 2012 (in German). The two photos of James Horner were taken by Matthias Keller. Basil Boehni (BB): You’re working in the movie business for over 30 years very successfully. Can you still just sit back, relax and enjoy a movie or do you immediately jump into an analytical viewing of the film? James Horner: Well, when I’ve finished a film I really don’t ever watch the movie again. I see the movie when it’s been mixed – the music, the effects[...]

eDIT FILMMAKER’S FESTIVAL: MASTER CLASS WITH JAMES HORNER

Following several statements from James Horner from his Master Class talk conducted by Matthias Keller, Editor of Bavarian Radio, on 31 October 2011. How he got into film music: I studied classical music and first wanted to become a classical composer. For getting commissions and grants you’re told to have a proper so-called power base. So I did the PHD and started writing ‘serious music’ (like Conversations and Spectral Shimmers). And one day I was asked to score a student film. And I agreed to it. I didn’t know anything about film. I wasn’t a great film buff. I was doing[...]

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[...]

HORNER / ANNAUD DOSSIER

Dear readers, This month, Jean-Jacques Annaud's newest film, Wolf Totem will come out in China and France respectively on 19 and 25 February. In January, we had the chance to see this feature film, to listen to the music composed by James Horner, and to briefly discuss with director Jean-Jacques Annaud and film producer Xavier Castano. The latter informed us that Wolf Totem will soon be distributed worldwide including the US by Sony. To celebrate this fourth collaboration between the American composer and the French director, we decided to dedicate a series of articles to them, through February. Feel free[...]

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: WEAVING A WEB OF STARS

[divider]“James Horner on a super-hero movie!?”[/divider] Astonishment and questioning. Such were our both reactions nine months ago, while we were waiting for Black Gold, when the composer’s long-time editor Jim Henrikson announced the possible involvement of James Horner to the new theatrical adaptation of Spider-Man. Astonishment, first, as this is clearly not a universe into which the composer is used to venturing. If we pay close attention to his filmography and if we exclude The Mask Of Zorro, out of more than hundred films he did only one film based upon a comics character, i.e. an avenger who distinguish him/herself in[...]

VIDEOS WITH JAMES HORNER

[divider]James Horner - Collage: The Last Work (2016) 1'23 [/divider] [one_half][/one_half] [one_half_last]In a brief video promoting the release of the Collage album, James Horner discusses his approach to the piece, the reason for the title, and his appreciation of the horn. Additionally, Mari and Håkon Samuelsen explain their admiration for Horner's distinct style. Published by Decca Classics.[/one_half_last] [divider]Composer James Horner Exclusive Interview – Titanic Live / Avatar Sequels (2015) 19'53 [/divider] [one_half][/one_half] [one_half_last]The highly publicized interview where the composer James Horner reveals he composed music for the Avatar attraction Animal Kingdom Disney World (Florida) and that James Cameron is trying to regroup four scripts in[...]

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[...]

BLACK GOLD: POETS OF THE DESERT

Thanks to Colosseum Music Entertainment we offer you a track by track review of James Horner's latest score album. Many facts regarding the film's plot are revealed throughout this review. More than ten years after Enemy At The Gates, James Horner and Jean-Jacques Annaud meet again on Black Gold. This new collaboration brings us this time in the heart of an Arabian desert, far from Russia's cold winters. 1. Main Title — A Desert Truce (6:34) A voice rises, ending a long silence endured since The Karate Kid. This chant is performed by Qatar pop star Fahad Al-Kubaisi and it leads us straight[...]

FAHAD AL-KUBAISI

Khlaed Fahad Abdullah Al Kubaisi is a singer of Qatar. In 2001 he released his first album entitled Jamel Errouh. Follow by Rouhi (2005), Lich (2006), Aseila (2008) and SAHH Ennoum (2010). Source: Yala.fm Official site: Fahad-Alkubaisi.com [...]

SUSHEELA RAMAN

By asopuma (originally posted to Flickr as Susheela Raman 02) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Susheela Raman (born in London on 21 July 1973) is an English singer of Indian origin. Official site: Susheelaraman.com [...]

DHAFER YOUSSEF

Youssef Dhafer at Moers Festival 2006 own photo 06-02-2006 photo: nomo/michael hoefner http://www.zwo5.de Dhafer Youssef bin bin Tahar Maarref (born November 19, 1967 in Téboulba) is a Tunisian composer, singer and oud player. At a very young age, he acquired certain notoriety, locally. His music is fueled by Sufi traditions, Arab lyricism, multicultural influences and instrumentation taken from the jazz and improvisation. Source: Wikipedia Official site: Dhaferyoussef.com [...]

STEVE BERNSTEIN

© IMDb Steve Bernstein was born in Colorado. With a classical background, he came to Los Angeles to complete his musical education. He has won five Emmy Awards as a composer. He began his professional career in orchestrating music for well known worldwide orchestras (the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Sundance Institute) rebuilding music for films whose original masters were lost or destroyed. He worked with veteran Fred Steiner for the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures, which opened the doors to the world of animation. He wrote the music for more than 250 episodes of series such as Steven Spielberg[...]

SIMON FRANGLEN

© seelectronics.com Simon Franglen is an English producer and keyboardist. He arranged the music of artists such as Quincy Jones, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Eric Clapton. He is a synthesizer programmer for James Horner and worked on Avatar and Titanic. From their collaboration on the James Cameron film in 2009 he has always accompanied the composer. Source: Emusician.com [...]

JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD

Par Studio Harcourt (Studio Harcourt Paris (http://studio-harcourt.eu/)) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, France) is a French director. He began his career by directing television advertisements in the late 1960s to early 1970s. With his first feature film Black and White in Color (1976), he won an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film. His third film Quest for Fire (La Guerre du feu) received two Césars for best film and best director. In 1986, Annaud directed The Name of the Rose, a film adaptation of Umberto Eco's popular novel of the same name. In[...]

BLACK GOLD: FIRST LOOK AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS

November's event is the release of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s newest film with music by James Horner: Black Gold. On Wednesday, 2 November we went to Le Havre, where the film was shown to a French audience for the first time. This was an opportunity for us to discover the composer’s latest score, and to meet the director, who came to answer questions from the audience after viewing the film. THE MOVIE Under the unforgiving desert sky, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to his rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men[...]

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