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James Horner was killed Monday in a plane chrash at the age of 62. Great film composer (Titanic, Avatar and many others) How sad
Alan
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R.I.P.
is devastated.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
. . . 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.
...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
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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).
That's more or less the job of that kind of film composer, though, to be fair.
Dave
He had just signed a contract with James Cameron to do three more Avatar movies
Alan
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