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1. Brainstorm
(James Horner)

BRAINSTORM is a remarkable score, superbly performed by the London Symphony with Boys from The Choir of New College Oxford and The Ambrosian Singer's, which offers a noteworthy look at James Horner in ...

2. Krull
(James Horner)

James Horner's score for Peter Yates' fantasy picture moves Horner up to a new plateau in his film scoring career. The score combines the excitement of his STAR THEK II music with the gentle lyricism his ...

3. Braveheart
(James Horner)

James Homer, it seems, is never destined to attain the consistence his admirers so keenly desire, unless he restricts himself to those projects which appeal to his own sensibilities. BRAVEHEART yields ...

4. Courage Under Fire
(James Horner)

... that nearly made me keel over from terminal boredom. Nevertheless, James Homer in an automatic pilot mode still makes for an occasional action highlight. The elaborate “Al Bathra” cue, which plays ...

5. To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
(James Horner)

... itself. Nearly half of it is solo piano, which always works well under this kind of movie. You’d expect a high-profile composer like James Homer to come up with something more original. Also, the vague ...

6. The Spifire Grill
(James Horner)

THE SPITFIRE GRILL is Homer’s current masterpiece. This rich and varied orchestral score will not fail to charm friend and foe alike. It strikes an impressive balance between the laid-back ...

7. The Perfect Storm
(James Horner)

James Homer, of late, seems to have developed an affinity for disasters of one sort or another. Space disasters (APOLLO 13), meteorite disasters (DEEP IMPACT), disasters at sea (TITANIC)... Nowadays, it ...

8. Aliens
(James Horner)

Varese Sarabande’s new “Deluxe Edition” re-release of James Horner’s ALIENS score is a vast improvement over their original 9-track/40-minute CD issued in 1986. All of the original 9 tracks are included ...

9. Mark Mckenzie on Scoring THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GARCIA LORCA
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... father really is. The film jumps back and forth in time. Edward James Olmos plays the powerful government man who’s instrumental in Lorca’s death; later he becomes somebody who’s is very passionate about ...

10. Christopher Frayling: Sergio Leone - Something to Do with Death
(Reviews/Books)

... but impressive by virtue of more than a quarter century of accomplishments. A lot of us who got into film music in the 1960s and 1970s did so by one of two means – either the James Bond music of John ...

11. John Frizzell: From Slimy Aliens to Comic Gangsters
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... and cable film assignments and a noteworthy score for BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA, he got a plum assignment completing the score for DANTE’S PEAK, which James Newton Howard did not have time to do. ...

12. David Arnold on Scoring ZOOLANDER and THE MUSKETEER
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... put out inquiries to John Williams and James Horner, independently of Dean and Roland. One of the producers had worked with John on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, so he’s going, “look, we can get John Williams - ...

13. James Horner Scores A BEAUTIFUL MIND
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

The Emotional Touch: James Horner Scores a Beautiful Mind An Interview with James Horner, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer by Rudy Koppl © 2001/2010 Originally published in Soundtrack Magazine Vol.20/No.80/2001 ...

14. Franz Waxman: An Appreciation
(Soundtrack/Composers)

... kind. Director James Whale, an admirer of Waxman’s LILIOM music, invited the composer to score his new film, 1935s THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. The result was one of the most revered scores in movie ...

15. Alex North: Breaking New Ground
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... heard of James Horner? Alex North: I read an interview with him in the magazine you sent me, but I don’t know his scores. I don’t doubt that he’s a talented guy. Harve Bennett (who produced RICH MAN ...

16. The Alamo re-recording
(MyBlog/New Releases)

... were recorded for Luc Van De Ven’s PROMETHEUS RECORDS, produced by James Fitzpatick, proprietor of Tadlow Music, conducted by Nic Raine. (More details to follow when a release date is set)  ...

17. John Williams: Classical Guitarist
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... we saw eye to eye. One or two films after that I did for him he continued to do that. One that I particularly like, and not a lot of people know, was THE BOOST, with James Woods as a drug addict. It’s ...

18. Kendall Schmidt: The Subtle Art of ReScoring
(Soundtrack/Interviews)

... contribution ended up being the addition of some “resolution” chords to the end of a James Horner cue that they’d taken from the movie to use for the pre-release trailers. Elliot Kaplan and the ...

19. Stanley Myers on Scoring HOMO FABER
(Soundtrack/Scoring Session)

... Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT>Matthias Büdinger: Another famous literary source you wrote the score for is James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Do you remember the movie? Stanley Myers: That was directed by Joseph ...

20. The Music Scoring Mixer - Tim Boyle
(Soundtrack/Technicalities)

... have come to prefer specific engineers. Notable collaborations of this kind which have sprung up in recent years include Jerry Goldsmith & Bruce Botnick, James Horner & Shawn Murphy, Alan Silvestri ...