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Jun 23, 2016 - 9:29 PM
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ScottyM
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I posted this on my Facebook page today and have been listening to his scores all day.
It's so hard to believe it's already been a year since this musical genius' voice was silenced so prematurely. It's a lesser place without new music from his pen, but he left behind an incredible body of work.
This is what I wrote when he died and it resonates just as strongly on the first anniversary of his death.
I didn't know him personally and I've lost family and good friends over the past year and this doesn't touch that, but this is still a kick in the ribs for me. James Horner was my first film score obsession, the first composer I hunted record stores for music from. Like a number of folks, Star Trek II was my introduction to his work and it remains a brilliant score and one of my favorites. Star Trek III is breathtakingly beautiful and was my first LP purchase at 16 years old. When all my friends were buying Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top and Van Halen albums, I was scouring the soundtrack aisles for James Horner scores, and those are some of my favorite memories. Walking up and down Tower Records buying cassettes of Aliens, Brainstorm, Willow, Gorky Park, Cocoon 2, Red Heat and others, listening to them in the car on the drive home from the store. Wearing them out over the weeks and months, getting my friends sick of music from Star Trek's II and III, Krull, Clear and Present Danger, The Land Before Time, and The Rocketeer. My closest friends knew his name before the rest of the world did. I even got a call from one of them when Horner won the Grammy. His music ignited my passion for film scores.
Over time, his style and my tastes didn't match, so he dropped from #1 to #2, but that was still a rarefied place in my list of composers and it's not a criticism of his work; it's an indication of where my interests were. His music moved me and shaped my feelings. I will always appreciate the years of joy he provided.
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ClassicFM's 'Saturday Night at the Movies' programme devoted the whole two hours to selections of Horner's music tonight. I recorded it and I'm listening to it now. Unfortunately I don't think it's available online as CFM don't seem to have a catch-up service. The programme page is: http://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows/saturday-night-movies/25-june-2016/
You can access it - go to the ClassicFM player on the website and click on listen again and select the show from the list.
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