After scoring a series of low-budget horror films for New World Pictures, composer James Horner has finally been given an assignment which allows him to rise above the derivative nature of much of his earlier work. While his intriguing score for WOLFEN (1981) helped to elevate him into the high-budget film world, his expansive music for STAR TREK II...
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James Horner on Star Trek III
James Horner’s music for STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK is, much like the film itself, a direct continuation of the score he composed for STAR TREK II; THE WRATH OF KHAN. Although there is a preponderance of exciting music for the battle sequences, STAR TREK III is, however, primarily a character film, a trait the score equally portrays. “I’m using a...
James Horner
Emerging from the low budget film school of Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, James Horner has become a notable composer in, the Big Budget movie world, whose latest assignments included, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (replacing a rejected George Delerue score), KRULL and BRAINSTORM. Interviewed shortly after the release of ...
James Horner Scores A Beautiful Mind
A 99-piece orchestra dominated the main scoring stage, around which were five strategically placed grand pianos. On the right and left side of the composer’s podium were two orchestral harps. This was James Horner’s amazing set up for director Ron Howard’s new Universal Picture, A BEAUTIFUL MIND. Composer James Horner had been passionately...
James Horner on Enemy at the Gates
James Horner has scored over one hundred motion pictures in his twenty-two years of film composing. These years of hard work have paid off by winning two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes (one for Best Original Score and the other for Best Original Song) for his music to the Best Picture of 1997, TITANIC...