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- Orchestrations: Brad Dechter, Frank BennettSound engineer: Shawn Murphy
Supervising music editor: Jim Henrikson
Music editor: Joe E. Rand
Assistant music editor: Jeff Charbonneau, James Flamberg
Music contractor: Sandy DeCrescent
Piano: Ralph GriersonPercussions: Michael FisherSaxophone: Brandford Marsalis, Joel C. PeskinSynthesizers: Ian UnderwoodVocals: Sally Stevens, Darlene Koldenhoven Special Recent Posts
STANDOUT SET PIECES #8: BUILDING TENSION
James Horner always focused on story and especially character. Famously (within the Horner community at least), he once stated in the context of his two Star Trek scores that it was always about Spock and Kirk and that “the action would take care of itself”. It should come as no surprise that this focus on characters and their humanity has been the obvious guideline for a series of articles such as this. I have always selected music cues I believe James Horner would have wanted to see discussed. For this episode, however, the reader’s attention is directed toward three cues[...]
IT’S LOGICAL – EPISODE 3: MAGICAL ENCOUNTERS
"It's logical" is a series of articles about the logical construction, the coherence, the visual, narrative, symbolic and emotional dimensions of the many and significant allusions and quotes that James Horner always peppered his work with. Beyond the colors of the piano, Sally Stevens and Darlene Koldenhoven’s ethereal vocals and Branford Marsalis’s warm saxophone, Sneakers (1992) features a mysterious and captivating theme. All of its statements accompany interactions between the movie’s two antagonists, Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kinsley).This theme first appears in a particularly high-speed statement four seconds into the Main Title, where it returns twice (at 1:22 and[...]
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[...]
SALLY STEVENS
Sally Stevens is an American singer from Los Angeles. She has been part of most choral music works for Hollywood movies, and for several years has played a major role as an intermediary between composers and choirs/singers, and is as such referred to as "choir / vocal contractor." She brings in vocal talents who can meet the composers' needs for their choral parts. As a soprano, she sang in the choir she founded, the Hollywood Film Chorale, and performed the sublime song Flying Dreams in The Secret of NIMH (Jerry Goldsmith). A really accomplished artist, Sally Stevens is also passionate about photography.[...]
BRANFORD MARSALIS
By darlene susco (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Branford Marsalis (born 26 August 1960, in New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)) is a saxophonist, jazz composer and actor. He is the brother of Wynton Marsalis. In the 1970s, with Herbie Hancock, he played and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. In 1986, the saxophonist formed his quartet with pianist Kenny Kirkland, drummer Jeff Watts and bassist Bob Hurst and in 2001, Branford Marsalis won the award for best instrumental album of the year for Contemporary Jazz (2000), at the 43rd Grammy Awards. Source: Wikipedia - Music-story.com Official site: Brandfordmarsalis.net [...]
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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