Post by erik on Nov 27, 2021 18:17:20 GMT -5
The late James Horner's score for the 1998 sci-fi/disaster film DEEP IMPACT is in this week's classical Works Spotlight.
James Horner: DEEP IMPACT
During what turned out to be an extremely productive time as a film composer, a time sadly cut off by his death in a plane crash in Ventura County, California in June 2015, James Horner was among the most successful composers in Hollywood who were not named John Williams. His career began at large for long-time B-movie king Roger Corman and his 1980 production Battle Beyond The Stars, a Star Wars-inspired space opera that had a budget of $5 million, a princely sum for Corman. Horner’s reputation grew throughout the Eighties and Nineties with his credits encompassing animated films (An American Tail; An American Tail: Fievel Goes West); science fiction (the second and third films of the Star Trek franchise; Brainstorm; Cocoon); and climaxing with Apollo 13 in 1995, and Titanic in 1997. Following the success of Titanic, for which he won an Oscar, Horner took on another science fiction project, the 1998 sci-fi/disaster movie Deep Impact, which concerned itself with Mankind’s attempts to stop a six mile-wide comet from impacting on Earth and causing the planet’s extinction. Absent anything approaching the anthemic “My Heart Will Go On” for Titanic, Horner composed a score for the film that balanced the orchestral and choral material he had also composed for Apollo 13 and Brainstorm, and which reflected the kind of realism of the film’s situation, along with a cascading piano line that enhanced the impending tragedy that millions will be forced to undergo. Although he didn’t repeat the Oscar win on Titanic, Horner was nevertheless very happy with the Deep Impact score.
Hollywood Film Chorale
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra/JAMES HORNER (Sony Classical)
James Horner: DEEP IMPACT
During what turned out to be an extremely productive time as a film composer, a time sadly cut off by his death in a plane crash in Ventura County, California in June 2015, James Horner was among the most successful composers in Hollywood who were not named John Williams. His career began at large for long-time B-movie king Roger Corman and his 1980 production Battle Beyond The Stars, a Star Wars-inspired space opera that had a budget of $5 million, a princely sum for Corman. Horner’s reputation grew throughout the Eighties and Nineties with his credits encompassing animated films (An American Tail; An American Tail: Fievel Goes West); science fiction (the second and third films of the Star Trek franchise; Brainstorm; Cocoon); and climaxing with Apollo 13 in 1995, and Titanic in 1997. Following the success of Titanic, for which he won an Oscar, Horner took on another science fiction project, the 1998 sci-fi/disaster movie Deep Impact, which concerned itself with Mankind’s attempts to stop a six mile-wide comet from impacting on Earth and causing the planet’s extinction. Absent anything approaching the anthemic “My Heart Will Go On” for Titanic, Horner composed a score for the film that balanced the orchestral and choral material he had also composed for Apollo 13 and Brainstorm, and which reflected the kind of realism of the film’s situation, along with a cascading piano line that enhanced the impending tragedy that millions will be forced to undergo. Although he didn’t repeat the Oscar win on Titanic, Horner was nevertheless very happy with the Deep Impact score.
Hollywood Film Chorale
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra/JAMES HORNER (Sony Classical)