Jay 37,346 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Track / timestamps?(Of Horner doing it, I mean) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Does anyone know what scores of his have been completed but are awaiting posthumous release? It seems like there was another Gibson project and I definitely like what they did together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Track / timestamps?(Of Horner doing it, I mean)Just one of many examples, at 0:10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Hey, that's exactly the thing I meant. It's one of his most recongnisable traits. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Does anyone know what scores of his have been completed but are awaiting posthumous release? It seems like there was another Gibson project and I definitely like what they did together. His five 2015 scores are:One Day In Auschwitz (January 25)Wolf Totem (February 19)Living In The Age of Airplanes (April 10)Southpaw (July 24)The 33 (November 13)Though all were written and recorded in 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Hey, that's exactly the thing I meant. It's one of his most recongnisable traits. KarolAnother one was the rolling chimes which was the equivalent to the rolling piano for his action material.Beginning of this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeH 768 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Yes, looking forward to hearing the 33 and Southpaw. I still hold out hope that Romeo and Juliet might be released someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I hope Living in the Age of Airplanes will get some sort of release (can be digital only). I do, however, understand why it would feel slightly inappropriate now...Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 According to the official website there will be a soundtrack releasehttp://www.airplanesmovie.com/faq/Will you be releasing a soundtrack?Yes! Look for it around the same time the film is released on DVD and Blu-ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 That's really cool. I liked the stuff we heard in the trailer.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Track / timestamps?(Of Horner doing it, I mean)You have to know what he's referring to. Probably the most prominent/famous example comes at the end of the main title line at the opening of Field of Dreams. He usually played it as a sort of echoing fugue after a melodic line like that, though he would sometimes use it as an effect in itself (think of the late passages of "Goodbye and Godspeed" before the end credits begin in Deep Impact). Throughout his career, it was arguably his second-favorite affectation after the danger motif. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Track / timestamps? (Of Horner doing it, I mean) Just one of many examples, at 0:10. Gotcha. Yea I like when he does that. That's really cool. I liked the stuff we heard in the trailer. Karol Me too as Joe Johnson said, Horner excelled at flying music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Damn straight. Even in more recent years: Karol HornerIsTheMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 that's an amazing track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 In the context of this quote, this promotional video is really painful to watch: KarolWatching this video, it becomes quite obvious he lost a lot of weight in the last few years. Not that he looked unhealthy after the weight loss, but does anyone know the cause of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I mean there are just so many reasons why a person might lose weight....I'm not saying there's any veracity to it, but I've heard more than one person mention the possibility that there was in fact some health issue at play, which would cast all of this in a bit of a different light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Yeah, as bad as it sounds I keep thinking this was no accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Why would you think that?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I hope Living in the Age of Airplanes will get some sort of release (can be digital only). I do, however, understand why it would feel slightly inappropriate now...KarolI think it could be a fitting tribute to the man and his passions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uni 306 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I'm not saying there's any veracity to it, but I've heard more than one person mention the possibility that there was in fact some health issue at play, which would cast all of this in a bit of a different light.Yeah, as bad as it sounds I keep thinking this was no accident.Nah. I don't buy it. It's just like internet forums to take the slightest "clue" (which may not be anything but a natural, benign change in a person) and attribute massively dramatic outcomes to it. There's no reason to think any such thing at this point, and it serves no decent purpose to assign motives based on total speculation to a respected figure who's just passed. Taikomochi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 It's not internet forums. And I don't think anyone is assigning motives. Nothing more than the stating of possibilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I've been having this discussion with a bunch of folks today and no consensus can be reached. Is the characteristic "low rumbly piano chord" a Horner innovation? Or did someone else do it first?I have a feeling George Crumb did it in Vox Balaenae. Will have to relisten again.I wouldn't call it an affectation, it's just a recurring idea. We all have words and phrases we use time and time again, whether we invented them or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Horner wore a scarf for a time and underneath you could see a long pit in some of the interviews, probably some kind of surgery.As for the piano roll, i heard it in RUDY, too (02:17): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG-SI 10 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I was checking our local news portal yesterday at work and hammer hit me. Rushed immediately to the JWFAN! I just stopped working and start staring out of the window for the rest of my time at work...So sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Horner wore a scarf for a time and underneath you could see a long pit in some of the interviews, probably some kind of surgery.As for the piano roll, i heard it in RUDY, too (02:17): The Horner roll is a basically major chord in block voicing rolled/arpeggiated in the low register piano. That Jerry clip sounds like low brass doubled by a bass drum to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 The effect is very much the same, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Very sad news, he was my third favorite composer. I've recently became a father of twins and was playing Rocketeer and Land Before Time the other day for the boys, they seemed to like it, but who knows, they're very little.Even sadder I think he still had it, in these times of fairly generic film music, Amazing Spiderman was one of the last times I came out of the theater humming the main theme.Thank you Mr. HornerWelcome back! Strange to see so many old posters return because of this. Diego 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Sad, he had heard about the upcoming Alien film too - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Holy crap. I hadn't even thought of the possibility of Horner scoring Alien 5. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 He was wrong in that Blomkamp has a regular composer, as all three films were scored by different people. I'm sure he would have been approached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlytoot 97 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Yeah, as bad as it sounds I keep thinking this was no accident.I've thought about this, myself... I really hope that's not the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 Yeah, as bad as it sounds I keep thinking this was no accident.If it was (which I don't believe) then at least he went out on his own terms (assuming there was a health issue). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 No one left alive after the death of all these silver age composers can carry on the torch. There are no more great composers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 that's true.We get "satisfied" by mediocre scores by Gacchino now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foundling 11 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 We need 90s symphonic Newman back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 21 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Very sad news, he was my third favorite composer. I've recently became a father of twins and was playing Rocketeer and Land Before Time the other day for the boys, they seemed to like it, but who knows, they're very little.Even sadder I think he still had it, in these times of fairly generic film music, Amazing Spiderman was one of the last times I came out of the theater humming the main theme.Thank you Mr. HornerWelcome back! Strange to see so many old posters return because of this.Well, you know, I felt I had to write something even in my poor english which probably has gotten worse now that I don't get any sleep, and this board seemed like the best place to do it. He wrote some of my favorite scores. It's funny how a celebrity death can get to you, I still remember very well the day Ayrton Senna, the F1 driver, died and I was like 11. And the day George Harrison died too, although with him pretty much the writing was on the wall.Anyway, thanks! I don't expect to be posting much, life with one month twins is quite chaotic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 The is the most awful celebrity death for me by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Me too. This one really makes me feel robbed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 The is the most awful celebrity death for me by far.Mine too. It's just so... unfair that he was taken so soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 This scene in A Beautiful Mind...my god...it makes you realize what a brilliant musical dramatist we lost. 1:08-1:58 is just so well done. It hits every beat of the scene without being overbearing, it gives you the sensation of having the brain lightbulb with John Nash. It doesn't compete with his voice range while still being clearly audible. It even follows the pace of the dialogue. Brilliant! Dixon Hill and HornerIsTheMan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornerIsTheMan 4 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 This scene in A Beautiful Mind...my god...it makes you realize what a brilliant musical dramatist we lost. 1:08-1:58 is just so well done. It hits every beat of the scene without being overbearing, it gives you the sensation of having the brain lightbulb with John Nash. It doesn't compete with his voice range while still being clearly audible. It even follows the pace of the dialogue. Brilliant! Outstanding example. Horner nailed it. But it's also so subtle that it's easy to miss if you're not paying close attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croweyes1121 14 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 So I'm watching Field of Dreams tonight. It just hit me that I'm 36, just like Ray Kinsella. If this hadn't happened, I likely never would have watched this film while being 36. Life is weird sometimes....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Very sad news, he was my third favorite composer. I've recently became a father of twins and was playing Rocketeer and Land Before Time the other day for the boys, they seemed to like it, but who knows, they're very little.Even sadder I think he still had it, in these times of fairly generic film music, Amazing Spiderman was one of the last times I came out of the theater humming the main theme.Thank you Mr. HornerWelcome back! Strange to see so many old posters return because of this.Well, you know, I felt I had to write something even in my poor english which probably has gotten worse now that I don't get any sleep, and this board seemed like the best place to do it. He wrote some of my favorite scores. It's funny how a celebrity death can get to you, I still remember very well the day Ayrton Senna, the F1 driver, died and I was like 11. And the day George Harrison died too, although with him pretty much the writing was on the wall.Anyway, thanks! I don't expect to be posting much, life with one month twins is quite chaotic.Your English is perfect, at least in written form. Understandable that you have other priorities, but it's good to know you haven't completely disappeared! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewya 360 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 James Horner Was Our Greatest Middlebrow Composer - http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/06/23/james_horner_dead_at_61_was_as_film_composer_both_successful_and_controversial.html SIGH... Edit: Ah, it was the same guy who wrote that Giacchino's Jurassic World was a masterpiece, I now remember him - http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/06/12/how_michael_giacchino_creates_a_new_masterpiece_from_the_original_jurassic.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Slate also posted a tweet, now deleted, saying "James Horner wasn't a great composer, but he was effective." They can go fuck themselves, as far as I am concerned. HornerIsTheMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Aren't they the same morons that tried to be transparently controversial and edgy... uh... during every other possible opportunity to do so as long as they've existed? HornerIsTheMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 "James Horner wasn't a great composer, but he was effective."Isn't that a Williams quote about Psycho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taikomochi 1,136 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 "James Horner wasn't a great composer, but he was effective."Isn't that a Williams quote about Psycho?Not that I am aware?I actually found a cache of the tweet, in case anyone was interested. The comments are pretty amusing, people shitting on Slate. HornerIsTheMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Don't click the Slate article. You'll reward them with ad revenues. HornerIsTheMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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