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STANDOUT SET PIECES #3: COMING HOME FROM THE SEA (THE PERFECT STORM)

3.0 Bringing you up to speed Reportedly, James Horner really wanted this assignment, and for good reason, because The Perfect Storm (2000) offered him the kind of canvas he liked to work on: it’s chockful of action sequences big and bold, and yet at the core of it all is a tragic and very human story of ordinary men who brave extraordinary circumstances and end up paying the highest price. Based loosely on Sebastian Junger’s novel, the real-life story centers around the crew of the Andrea Gail, a trawler headed by Billy Tyne (George Clooney), a captain who is down on[...]

THE TODD-AO YEARS

Todd-AO Scoring Stage, CBS Radford, Studio City. If you happen to carefully read the liner notes in your Horner albums, you must have noticed the name of this recording studio several times. The composer has indeed recorded more than forty scores there, or almost half his discography, from Swing Kids (1992) to Deep Impact (1998) and finally The Spiderwick Chronicles (2007). Let's go back to this historical place where the maestro's brilliant notes sounded in thousands. [divider]The origins of the Scoring Stage[/divider] In the 1920s, producer Mack Sennett, owner of Keystone Studios, master of silent films and the man who famously launched Charlie[...]

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[...]

DAVE WELLS

  David Michael Wells was a professional musician, trombonist, conductor, arranger and music copyist. For 16 years he was a key member of Disney's music library as well as most of the major movie studios in Los Angeles. He has worked on many films and TV shows: Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, Frozen and The Chronicles of Narnia. Source: legacy.com   Dave Wells passed away in 2014. To honor his name and his music a fundraising association was established to make donations to schools’ music programs, musical charities and by providing music scholarships. If you have any questions: TheRedTrombone@gmail.com facebook.com/TheRedTrombone                 [...]

DVD / BLU-RAY

[divider]ALIENS (1986)[/divider] Aliens - Two-Disc Collector's Edition [Dvd 2004] Alien Quadrilogy [Dvd 2004]   Documentary title: The Final Countdown Sequence time: 9'22 James Horner reflects on the difficult conditions in which he had to compose and record the soundtrack. He says that when he arrived in London, the film was not completed. He therefore composed 97 minutes of music within 15 days. The aging equipment during recording sessions, sleepless nights and icy relations with producer Gale Anne Hurd, are all explained in this documentary. © 20th Century Fox [divider]THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012)[/divider] The Amazing Spider-Man - Four-Disc Combo [BLU-RAY 3d / Blu-Ray / Dvd / Ultraviolet Digital Copy] (2012) The[...]

JOHN MELLENCAMP*

By Chitrapa at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons John Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951 in Symour, Indiana, United States) is an American guitarist, actor, composer, director and painter.   Source: Wikipedia Official site: Mellencamp.com       [...]

BRIAN KILGORE

© Vic Firth Brian Kilgore is a percussionist who has played in more than 400 albums, working with artists such as: Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Shelby Lynne, Whitney Houston, Starship, Linda Ronstadt, Ricky Martin, Aerosmith, P Diddy and Dr. Dre. He also worked on more than 150 soundtracks including Indiana Jones 4, Hancock, King Kong and Narnia. Source: Toca Percussion   [...]

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[...]

CARL JOHNSON

© Swanderful Music Carl Johnson is a composer of music for film and television, living and working in Southern California. After graduating from the University of Kansas with honors, he was admitted into the program for composition for USC and, after completing his studies, began writing professionally. As a freelance Hollywood composer, he has composed for several films, such as Disney productions, like Hunchback of Notre Dame II and Aladdin and the King of Thieves. He also participated in numerous television projects, including Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series for Warner Bros., DreamWorks and Invasion America, for which he won an Emmy[...]

HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYMPHONY

© Scoring Sessions Hollywood Studio Symphony is a symphony orchestra and is credited on many blockbusters like the Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Jurassic Park 3. They should not be confused with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, a more traditional orchestra.   Official site : hollywoodstudiosymphony.com Source : wikipedia           [...]

BARBARA McDERMOTT

  Barbara McDermott is a music editor.     [...]

WOLFGANG PETERSEN

  Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941) is a German director and screenwriter. He was twice nominated for an Oscar in 1981 for his film Das Boot. He was successful at the box office with In the Line of Fire (1993) starring Clint Eastwood, The Perfect Storm (2001) with George Clooney and Troy (2004) with Brad Pitt. Source: Wikipedia   [...]

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