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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 HenriksonMusic editor: Joe E. RandMusic contractor: Nathan Kaproff
Keyboards: James Horner, Ralph Grierson, Randy Kerber, Ian Underwood
French horn: James Thatcher, Steven BecknellPiano: Gloria ChengSpecial Recent Posts
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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LIST OF ALBUMS
- 48 HRS
- A BEAUTIFUL MIND
- A FAR OFF PLACE
- ALIENS
- ALL THE KING’S MEN
- AMAZING STORIES ALAMO JOBE
- AN AMERICAN TAIL
- AN AMERICAN TAIL : FIEVEL GOES WEST
- ANOTHER 48 HRS
- APOCALYPTO
- APOLLO 13
- AVATAR
- BACK TO TITANIC
- BALTO
- BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED
- BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS
- BEYOND BORDERS
- BICENTENNIAL MAN
- BLACK GOLD
- BOBBY JONES, STROKE OF GENIUS
- BOPHA!
- BRAINSTORM
- BRAVEHEART
- CAMERA – REFLECTIONS ON FILM MUSIC
- CASPER
- CLASS ACTION
- CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
- COCOON
- COCOON : THE RETURN
- COLLAGE – THE LAST WORK
- COMMANDO
- COURAGE UNDER FIRE
- DAD
- DEEP IMPACT
- ENEMY AT THE GATES
- EXTREME CLOSE UP
- FIELD OF DREAMS
- FILM MUSIC BY JAMES HORNER FILM MUSIC MASTERWORKS
- FLIGHTPLAN
- FOR GREATER GLORY : THE TRUE STORY OF CRISTIADA
- FREEDOM SONG
- GLORY
- GORKY PARK
- HEART OF OCEAN THE FILM MUSIC OF JAMES HORNER
- HOCUS POCUS
- HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS.
- HOUSE OF CARDS
- HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
- HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
- HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
- IN COUNTRY
- IRIS
- JACK THE BEAR
- JADE
- JUMANJI
- KRULL
- LEGENDS OF THE FALL
- LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES
- MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
- MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS
- ONCE AROUND
- ONCE UPON A FOREST
- PAS DE DEUX
- PATRIOT GAMES
- PROJECT X
- RADIO
- RANSOM
- RASCALS AND ROBBERS
- RED HEAT
- SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER
- SNEAKERS
- SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
- SOUTHPAW
- STAR TREK II
- STAR TREK III
- SWING KIDS
- TALES FROM THE CRYPT: CUTTING CARDS
- TESTAMENT
- THE 33
- THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
- THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
- THE CHUMSCRUBBER
- THE DEVIL’S OWN
- THE ESSENTIAL JAMES HORNER FILM MUSIC COLLECTION
- THE FORGOTTEN
- THE FOUR FEATHERS
- THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN
- THE KARATE KID
- THE LAND BEFORE TIME
- THE LEGEND OF ZORRO
- THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES
- THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
- THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
- THE MASK OF ZORRO
- THE MISSING
- THE MUSIC OF JAMES HORNER
- THE NAME OF THE ROSE
- THE NEW WORLD
- THE PAGEMASTER
- THE PELICAN BRIEF
- THE PERFECT STORM
- THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER
- THE ROCKETEER
- THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
- THE SPITFIRE GRILL
- THUNDERHEART
- TITANIC
- TITANIC AND OTHER FILM SCORES OF JAMES HORNER
- TO GILLIAN ON HER 37th BIRTHDAY
- TROY
- UNCOMMON VALOR
- UNLAWFUL ENTRY
- VIBES
- WE’RE BACK! A DINOSAUR’S STORY
- WHERE THE RIVER RUNS BLACK
- WILLOW
- WINDTALKERS
- WOLF TOTEM
- WOLFEN