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  1. DreamTheater wrote
    Troy expanded (Intrada)

    This does NOT feature the Yared masterpiece. No surprises there...

    ... but I didn't see this release coming at all. And I have to say it's not one that I will be ordering (now or in the future), even if I find the score album I have is decent and enjoyable enough for me, despite it being a competent rush job replacing a far superior score.

    Anyone here interested in picking this up?


    No. It's a decent score given the circumstances, albeit the danger motive overkill. But the commercial release sounds fine and the content is comprehensive IMO.

    Volker
    Bach's music is vibrant and inspired.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeOct 6th 2017
    It's a very good score and I enjoy it danger motif and all but I won't be picking this one up, I'm very satisfied with the original release. If it had included Yared's score I'd have snapped at it like starved piranha.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  2. Unreleased Horner:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpIDOx-kLyc
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2017
  3. Thanks for the write up James, a great read.

    So were all of the guests there in person or was it only Mel Gibson on stage and the rest with video messages? Can you remember any specific anecdotes?
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2017
    Ah, no, Mel wasn't on stage, he was a video like the rest. (He really did look, um, rather the worse for wear.)

    I'm useless at remembering things. Cameron on the Celine Dion song (after the well-worn part about Horner recording it secretly): "So James says, 'how do you feel about a song?' and I said 'GREAT IDEA, just like that pop song at the end of Schindler's List'"

    (I was the only person who seemed to find this one funny) Cameron also said how important he thinks it is for a film to have a strong theme, "one that the composer can use throughout the film - or in James's case, throughout his body of work."

    Ron Howard's anecdotes were a bit like Ron Howard's films.
  4. Thanks James. Don't know why I read it as him being there!
  5. It's a been a couple of weeks, but here's my take on the JAMES HORNER LIFE IN MUSIC concert that took place in London. https://wp.me/p3hOx4-1b9
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2018
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      CommentAuthorLSH
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2018 edited
    Couldn’t have put it better myself; I absolutely adore this score. Horner absolutely nails the sound of childhood innocence.* The sheer warmth this work exudes is incredible.


    *Odd sentence, I admit.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2018
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2018
    Review of BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS, my alltime favourite Horner score:

    http://celluloidtunes.no/the-boy-in-the … es-horner/

    In Norwegian.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorLSH
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2018
    I don't think I've listened to that one since it first came out. I should revisit.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2018 edited
    Here's our review of LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES (James Horner), by Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen:

    http://celluloidtunes.no/living-in-the- … es-horner/

    It's in Norwegian, though. You'd need Google Translate.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2018
  6. Good review, James. That album has some nice arrangements, but some pretty bad ones as well. Tina Guo’s were probably my favorite tracks. I just think the cello is one of the best solo instruments for reinterpreting film music (see also the Yo Yo Ma/Morricone album), unlike some other instruments (that Willow track is just awful biggrin)
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      CommentAuthorMarc
    • CommentTimeJun 27th 2019
    Any horn/trumpet players in the house ?
    Here are the notes to play the whole "Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch" cue from Titanic smile

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vynhoe8hyzI
  7. I'm really enjoying the lush trumpet solos in A Far Off Place right now. It's been awhile since I've listed to this sweet and sweeping score from James. So good!
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2020 edited
    Filmscoregirl wrote
    I'm really enjoying the lush trumpet solos in A Far Off Place right now. It's been awhile since I've listed to this sweet and sweeping score from James. So good!


    It's excellent, but also surprisingly harsh and dissonant in places -- far more than I had expected when I first got it years ago. I had expected it to be another THE LAND BEFORE TIME or something.
    I am extremely serious.
  8. That's true, it does have a somewhat unexpected maturity and sense of seriousness for a Disney film of that time starring primarily children. But I actually really like the contrast, might even prefer it over The Land Before Time. smile
  9. I never thought of Enemy at the Gates before being the sound of a “cold Russian winter” as Pawel put it, so at 93 degrees yesterday I put it on for some cooling off. It didn’t work though. sad
  10. Not that literally, but it's better at that atmosphere than the film itself! I do hope you enjoyed the score. One of my favorite French horn bits ever is in it!
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
  11. Haha, I know, I was just teasing. smile Which track is your favorite French horn bit in?
  12. The second part of The Tractor Factory, the "cliche Russian" bit before the big suspense tutti kicks in.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2020
    I'll certainly give ENEMY another swirl after our discussions of it on Friday, Pawel.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorMarc
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2020
    I've always been a big fan of James Horner's work on Star Trek II & III, his work on these scores is simply astounding smile
    And so I recently transcribed and recorded all of the french horn and trumpet parts of several cues from the Wrath of Khan score (Main Title, Battle In The Mutara Nebula and Epilogue/End Title to be precise )
    Video also includes sheet music which is all synched to the movie smile

    => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP9vdXQ-yEM
  13. I watched this the other day and found it very interesting. Great effort!
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2021 edited
    So it was just announced that Simon Franglen will be scoring the Avatar films, because of his tight involvement in the scoring process with Horner on the original Avatar.

    Big assignment for him! He has some huge shoes to fill, not to mention scoring several huge blockbuster films while he doesn’t have the most experience of singlehandedly scoring big studio films (I believe The Magnificant Seven was the only one, and that was composed on the basis of Horner’s themes). He also scored the World of Avatar attraction at the Disney theme park. At the very least this tells us James Cameron wants to stay as close to Horner’s musical score as possible.

    This seems to be a big crossroads moment for Franglen, something that could make or break his career.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2021
    Franglen hasn't impressed me with a single thing so far. It's all been rather anonymous, soulless stuff. But hey -- perhaps this will be it. But JNH would have been the composer casting choice of the millennium. All of academic interest now.
    I am extremely serious.
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      CommentAuthorBobdH
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2021 edited
    I think the Walt Disney World tracks ‘Pandora: The World of Avatar’ is the best impression of what we will be getting, and while it’s a fine interpretation of James Horner’s sound and themes, the whole thing reminds me of Harald Kloser’s music for Roland Emmerich’s films. It’s okay, it’s inoffensive, but it doesn’t stir me in any way.

    https://youtu.be/AjhMZ6N_K8A

    Let’s hope the pressure of the immense task of scoring these huge blockbuster movies will inspire him to do something that wows us, because to be fair, he simply hasn’t handled an assignment like this before.