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• Recorded May 23-28, June 12-20 & July 8, 1993, at Todd-AO Scoring Stage

  Music preparation: Bob Bornstein
  Orchestrations: Thomas Pasatieri, James Horner
  Sound engineer: Shawn Murphy
  Supervising music editor: Jim Henrikson
  Music editor: Joe E. Rand
  Music contractor: Nathan Kaproff
  Keyboards: James Horner, Ralph Grierson, Randy Kerber, Ian Underwood
  French horn: James Thatcher, Steven Becknell
  Piano: Gloria Cheng

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  SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER: AN EXPLORATION IN RHYTHM

  When I heard that La-La Land Records was going to be releasing an expanded and remastered recording of James Horner’s score for the 1993 film, Searching for Bobby Fischer, I was overjoyed. Horner’s work for this is one of his greatest masterpieces in his amazing career. It is also, perhaps, one of his most underappreciated scores. Horner has always been a master at tugging at our emotions by so perfectly accompanying what is happening on the screen, and his work on this film is certainly no exception. It is with pure joy that I rediscovered this score through the LLLR[...]

  

  SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER EXPANDED RELEASE REVIEWED

  It was a late August evening in 1993. I was laying in my old bed in my parents’ house, my first summer after a year of studying Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I had a Discman at my side, Koss headphones plugged in, and the newest James Horner soundtrack ready to spin for the first time. I’d been listening to soundtracks for about 3 years now, and it was kinda “my thing”. I had a few composers I was “into”, and one of them was James Horner. I’d enjoyed his music to Field of Dreams, Glory,[...]

  

  SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER - EXPANDED AND REMASTERED RELEASE

  For many fans of James Horner’s music, 1993 was a high water mark, in terms of both quality and quantity, with no fewer than 13 films released that year featuring music written by James Horner.  Chief among them was Horner’s score to Searching for Bobby Fischer, an intimate true story about a young chess prodigy, starring Joe Montegna as the boy’s father and Ben Kingsley and Laurence Fishburne as the boy’s opposite-ends-of-the-spectrum chess mentors.  Horner’s score is simultaneously deeply intimate and exhilarating, offering us the composer’s earliest examples of accelerated piano ostinati representing the thrill of a brilliant intellect at[...]

  

  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[...]

  

  THOMAS PASATIERI

    Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945 in New York) is an American opera composer. He began composing at the age of 10. As a teenager, he studied with Nadia Boulanger and entered the Juilliard School at age 16, where he perfected his art. He composed 24 operas, the best known being The Seagull (1972). In 1984, he moved to Los Angeles. He then dealt with the orchestrations of film music (American Beauty, The Little Mermaid ...) In 2003, Thomas Pasatieri returned to New York to resume his career as a composer. Source: wikipedia   [...]

  

  STEVEN ZAILLIAN

    Steven Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is a producer, screenwriter and film director. In 1993, he won an Oscar for the screenplay of Schindler's List. The same year, he directed Searching for Bobby Fischer, a film about chess. In 2006 he also directed All the King’s Men with Sean Penn, Kate Winslet and Jude Law. Recognized as a clever and subtle writer, he was also nominated for The Awakening (1990), Gangs of New York (2002) and Moneyball (2011). Note: he was also the writer of Jack The Bear and Clear And Present Danger, two films that composer James Horner scored.    Source: Wikipedia   [...]

  
  

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