James Horner RIP

Somebody posted that one critic (Terry Teachout?). . . , posted on June 24, 2015 at 16:12:18
Chris from Lafayette Audiophile Posts: 26456 Location: SF Bay Area Joined: February 17, 2004 Contributor Since: February 6, 2012	. . . wrote the following about Horner: "He introduced millions of American listeners to the music of Aaron Copland." ;-) He might just as well have replaced Copland with Prokofiev (depending on which movie it was!). But like you, I'm sad to see anyone die before their time.

RE: Somebody posted that one critic (Terry Teachout?). . . , posted on June 24, 2015 at 16:32:14
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RE: Somebody posted that one critic (Terry Teachout?). . . , posted on June 24, 2015 at 20:20:55
David Smith	That's more or less the job of that kind of film composer, though, to be fair. Dave

My son - age 40 - and a real movie aficionado, posted on June 24, 2015 at 23:40:07
kavakidd Audiophile Posts: 20316 Location: Upstate NY Joined: April 15, 2004	is devastated. "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain

If so, then Horner was at the top of the class! [nt] ;-), posted on June 25, 2015 at 00:14:48
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RE: James Horner RIP, posted on June 26, 2015 at 06:04:34
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RE: Somebody posted that one critic (Terry Teachout?). . . , posted on June 26, 2015 at 07:18:14

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...and Dmitri Shostakovich ("Patriot Games") and Arvo Part ("Sneakers"). But he was neither the first nor, I suspect, the last to draw on the work of others to season certain scenes (think Bill Conti's nod to Tchaikovsky in "The Right Stuff" or DSCH at the end of "Victory"). And in watching "Brainstorm" last night, I was reminded how effective his scores were in setting or evoking a mood.

Horner gets a lot of playing time here and will be missed.

Jim

Yes - you're right about Conti too, posted on June 26, 2015 at 11:17:49

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It just seems so shameless in some instances. I'm thinking of how Horner's music in Star Trek II lifts that whole fifteen-second passage, seemingly note for note, from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet when the Enterprise is destroyed. (AFAIR, he didn't even bother to change keys.) When it's a literal rip off like this, how could he claim it was "his" music? I'd think at some point, when the rip off is as blatant as this, he should acknowledge (or the film credits should acknowledge) that "his" music is literally incorporating other music (by Prokofiev. or Copland, or Shostakovich, or Part, as the case may be).

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