Flight - A Proposed James Horner Concert Playlist

Spies and Secret Agents Film Score Concert

Western Themes Film Score Concert No. 1

Sports Themes Film Score Concert No. 2

Sports Themes Film Score Concert No. 1

Love Themes from the Movies Film Score Concert No. 1

Fantasy & Adventure Film Score Concert No. 1

Science Fiction Film Score Concert No. 1

1991 - Film Score Concert of Highlights from the Year

1992 - Film Score Concert of Highlights from the Year

1993 - Film Score Concert of Highlights from the Year

2012 - Film Score Concert of Highlights from the Year

1984 - Film Score Concert of Highlights of the Year

Best of James Horner: Piano

The James Horner End Title & End Credits Playlist Compilation

Best of James Horner

Post by Travis Elder

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Best of James Horner (YouTube Playlist)

James Roy Horner was born August 14, 1953, in Los Angeles, California. He began his composing career in about 1978, and he quickly became a staple in Hollywood, composing music scores for more than 125 films until his death on June 22, 2015.

James Horner at the piano with father, Harry Horner, looking on. 
Photo by Richard Fish (about February 1978)
Clipped from Newspapers.com

James Horner's Filmography 

(includes concert and television works)

2016

• The Magnificent Seven

2015

• One Day in Auschwitz

• Wolf Totem

• Living in the Age of Airplanes

• Collage (concert work)

• Southpaw

• The 33

2012

• First in Flight

• The Amazing Spider-Man

• For Greater Glory : The True Story Of Cristiada

2014

• Pas de Duex (concert work)

2011

• Black Gold

2010

• The Karate Kid

• Flight (aerial acrobatic display concert work)

2009

• Avatar

2008

• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

• The Spiderwick Chronicles

 

2007

• The Life Before Her Eyes

 

2006

• Apocalypto

• All the King’s Men

• The New World

 

2005

• The Legend of Zorro

• Flightplan

• The Chumscrubber

 

2004

• The Forgotten

• Troy

• Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

2003

• House of Sand and Fog

• The Missing

• Radio

• Beyond Borders

 

2002

• The Four Feathers

• Windtalkers

• Iris

 

2001

• A Beautiful Mind

• Enemy at the Gates

 

2000

• How The Grinch Stole Christmas

• The Perfect Storm

• Freedom Song

 

1999

• Bicentennial Man

1998

• Mighty Joe Young

• The Mask of Zorro

• Deep Impact

1997

• Titanic

• The Devil’s Own

1996

• Ransom

• To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday

• Courage Under Fire

• The Spitfire Grill

1995

• Balto

• Jumanji

• Jade

• Apollo 13

• Casper

• Braveheart

1994

• Legends of the Fall

• The Pagemaster

• Clear And Present Danger

 

1993

• The Pelican Brief

• We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story

• Bopha!

• The Man Without A Face

• Searching For Bobby Fischer

• Hocus Pocus, fantasy directed by Kenny Ortega (Walt Disney Pictures): “Sarah’s Theme”

• Once Upon A Forest

• Jack The Bear

• A Far Off Place

• Swing Kids

1992

• Crossroads, theme for series

• House of Cards

• Patriot Games

• Unlawful Entry

• Thunderheart

• Sneakers

• Fish Police

 

1991

• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

• The Rocketeer

• Class Action

• My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

• Once Around

• Norman and the Killer

 

1990

• Extreme Close-Up

• Another 48 Hours

• Tales From the Crypt, third episode from the Season 2 (“Cutting Cards”)

• I Love You To Death

 

1989

• Glory

• Dad

• In Country

• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

• Tummy Trouble

• Field of Dreams

 

1988

• Cocoon – The Return

• The Land Before Time

• Vibes

• Red Heat

• Willow

 

1987

• *batteries not included

• Project X

1986

• An American Tail

• The Name der Rose

• Captain EO

• Aliens

• Off-Beat

 

1985

• In Her Own Time

• Amazing Stories Alamo Jobe

• Commando

• The Journey of Natty Gann

• Cocoon

• Faerie Tale Theatre: The Pied Piper of Hamelin

• Surviving

• Heaven Help Us

• Let’s Go

 

1984

• Star Trek III – The Search For Spock

• The Stone Boy

 

1983

• Uncommon Valor

• Gorky Park

• The Dresser

• Testament

• Brainstorm

• Between Friends

• Krull

• Something Wicked This Way Comes

 

1982

• 48 Hours

• Star Trek II – The Wrath of Kahn

• Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

• P.K. and the Kid

• A Piano For Mrs. Cimino

 

1981

• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

• A Few Days in Weasel Creek

• Deadly Blessing

• Wolfen

• The Hand

• Angel Dusted

 

1980

• Battle Beyond the Stars

• Humanoids From the Deep

 

1979

• The Lady in Red

• Up From the Depths

 

1978

• Fantasies (AFI)

• Gist and Evans (AFI)

• Landscapes (AFI)

• Just for a Laugh (AFI)

• The Watcher (AFI)

• The Drought

• Spectral Shimmers (concert work) (performed January 22, 1979, at Indiana State University)

• Calls and Echoes of Mirrors (concert work) (performed March 10, 1978, at USC)

Note: The above playlist exceeds 200 tracks. To view and listen to all of the tracks, open the playlist on YouTube or in the YouTube app.

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5 for $5 - Rousing Sports Score Greats

by Travis Elder
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This year on ScoreCues we are excited to present a new feature for the budget conscious looking for some great music.  If you are like me you a) don't have the funds to buy even a tenth of the large number of score cues released each year and b) have limited time for listening to the gargantuan amount of hours of score music available.  With these ideas in mind we will regularly feature each month a playlist of five cues costing no more than $5.99 that will let you get the most bang for your listening pleasure buck.  So with out further adieu we present our first 5 for $5: Rousing Sports Score Greats. 

Sports movies often bring out a composers best.  Perhaps this is because sports movies at their core are almost always about an underdog overcoming great odds to triumph.  This theme lends itself well to musical interpretations as this fine playlist below shows: 


Titans Spirit by Trevor Rabin from Remember the Titans (7:25).  First up is Trevor Rabin's muscular manthem from Remember the Titans.  Rabin gave the Titans a spirit in his music that resonates to the core and is sure to arose your inner titan.

The Final Game by Jerry Goldsmith from Rudy (6:13).  Jerry Goldsmith set the gold (couldn't resist the pun) standard for sports movie scoring with his scores to Hoosiers (aka Best Shot ) and Rudy.  The Final Game highlights the final pivotal sequence in Rudy where Daniel "Rudy" Ruettgier fulfills his dream to play football as a player for the University of Notre Dame.  The scene brought me to tears and Jerry's score packs an emotional wallop.

Overture by Bill Conti from Rocky II (8:38).  The Overture from Rocky II is arguably the best cue from the entire Rocky franchise particularly as it states most all of the great themes from the first two movies including the Rocky fanfare including the discoized version, the heartful theme for Adrian, and the new Redemption theme.  This cue is sure to get your heart pumping, energize your disco juices, and inspire you to run ever faster and work harder during your exercise routines.

From Master to Student to Master by James Horner from The Karate Kid (10:33).  This cue from the 2010 Karate Kid reboot was a highlight for me that year.  If you listen to the thirty second sample for this cue you are scarcely given any idea of the powerful punch this cue has to offer.  The cue starts off soft and builds until the last amazing five minutes and 44 seconds, the training montage sequence from the movie, which will blow you away with its stirring and inspirational fanfare.

Ballet for Brawlers by James Peterson from The Red Canvas (11:29).  Don't be fooled by the use of the term 'ballet' as this cue is definitely not Tchaikovsky, but a modern, epic action brawl for a little known mixed martial arts movie.  Its obvious the composer put his heart and soul into this cue and hopefully more will come to appreciate it.  

With so many other great sports cues remaining we are certain to revisit this theme again for our 5 for $5.  At $4.85 and clocking in at over 44 minutes this playlist of sports score cue classics is an out of the park deal!