Holy crap! No idea this existed. From a program called "Backstage at Disney":
The scoring stage footage starts halfway through part four:
and concludes in part five:
That's Emil Richards on chimes, Shawn Murphy recording in the booth (he does not have a right hand), and Ray Bradbury watching. When Horner calls to "Greg" that's Greig McRitchie, orchestrator.
Horner appears not to have his English accent.
And this is really trivial, but when we see the multitrack tape deck recording the Main Title, I am pretty sure that is the exact same 1" 32-track digital 3M machine that we had to use at Disney Imagineering to play back scores recorded on it, like Star Trek II and Testament! (Neil Bulk, do you remember? That crazy tape deck feeds the tape from the inner part of the reel, not the outer.)
Amazing find! I hope there's something else we can unearth of Horner conducting somewhere. From everything I've seen of him on a podium, that twinkle in his eye from getting the orchestra to nail a performance never went away.
That accent is odd though Sounds to me like he was really trying to sound extra Californian or something
Great stuff Lukas. Thanks for sharing. Horner looks like a teenager. Well, it was 32 years ago, so he was in fact about 30 at the time. Funny, no sign of his accent. Great scoring stage footage. I love this stuff.
WOW! Wow wow wow! What a find! Thank you so much for sharing this, I can't believe it exists!
One of my former mentors from film school edited a few films Horner scored, and had a fairly good personal friendship with him. He said the "English" accent was picked up in the late 80's and was, indeed, only used "situationally" (i.e. publicly). Ha!
Wow! I did not realize those videos actually contained footage of Horner scoring "Something Wicked This Way Comes." I actually know the uploader of those videos, but when he first uploaded them, the main point of interest in the uploading of the full documentary was footage from an early version of Roger Rabbit, so as I said, I had no idea that footage was in there. Excellent find.
I actually saw that TV special when it was shown in Barbados sometime in the late '80s (I think it was in 1988), and I taped off Horner's segment (it was the first time I ever saw him in action). Nice to have a chance to see it again!
It was so exciting, we still had Jerry, Basil had just done Conan, John Williams was scoring Spielberg/Lucas films like they wouldn't stop coming and James was bursting onto the scene. Didn't know how lucky we were. That was a special time indeed. Don't think we'll ever see the like again.
Fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing, Lukas. I could watch recording session footage all day long (unlike many others here, I've never been privileged to attend one myself) -- especially when my favourite composers are involved.
I remember buying this score a few years ago and it's still in it's "shrink-wrap" I guess it's time to "un-peel" it now........this is truly beautiful music !
Sounds to me like he was really trying to sound extra Californian or something 
