I have finally decided to continue updating this James Horner website
of mine. It is basically just the same as the one at www.geocities.com/hornerfilms
, however since I don't have a big Horner section I have decided to
make this part of my personal website.
Folks might say that Horner News sections should be purely about
Horner, but as well as news about Horner I'm also going to use this
space as a kind of discussion board about Horner, for example, it was
Horner's birthday not so long ago, Thursday August 14th, so many happy
returns James - hope I'm not too late!
Upcoming projects for 2003 inculde:
Beyond Borders House of Sand and Fog Radio
Most recent releases include:
Four Feathers (Autumn 2002) Windtalkers (Spring 2002) Iris (September 2002) A Beautiful Mind (December 2001)
Written by Nancy Tang
15/06/02
Added an article on The Grinch - At The
Movies: The Grinch Gets a Soaring Score, excerpted from the New York
Times, September 1, 2000, by Rick Lyman
Added a review of Iris by Seftan Wiggs,
Public Radio East Music Director
Chasing After Windtalkers
The long-awaited score to John Woo's World War II epic Windtalkers, delayed from 2001 due to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, will finally hit US shelves on May 21st, 2002. The music is composed and conducted by James Horner.
Windtalkers is a patriotic film about how the United States were helped to win the war by use of the language of Navajo Indians as military code. In the film, an US soldier is assigned to protect an Indian "codetalker" from falling into enemy hands. But if it happened, he had to kill the messenger.
The track listing for the Windtalkers soundtrack is:
1. Navajo Dream
2. A New Assignment
3. An Act Of Heroism
4. Taking The Beachhead
5. First Blood Ceremony
6. The Night Before
7. Marine Assault
8. Losses Mounting
9. Friends in War
10. A Sacrifice Never Forgotten
11. Calling To The Wind
The album is released on RCA Victor.
Written by Nancy Tang
27 / 11 / 02
Light as a Feather
James Horner has recently composed the score for Shekhar Kapur's wartime
epic The Four Feathers, based on A.E.W. Mason's novel of the same name
and starring Heath Ledger, Kate Hudson and Wes Bentley. A re-make of the
1939 film based on the same novel, for which non other than Miklos Rozsa
provided the stirring symphonic score, this film tells the story of
Harry Faversham, an officer in the British army of 1870, who resigns his
military post when the army is called to operation in Sudan. He receives
four white feathers from his friends and fiancee, symbols of what they
believe to be his cowardice. He ultimately sets out for Sudan and needs
to fight in order to rescue his friends and win back honor for himself.
In the making of this soundtrack, Horner utilized, in his usual way, a
blend of wordless vocals (performed by Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn,
nephew of legendary world-music perforner Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, who now
carries on his uncle's legacy) and traditional instruments to create a
seamless musical backdrop to this epic tale of courage, friendship and
love.
The album is released on Horner's usual label, Sony Classical. In stores
now.
Track listing:
1. The Makings Of A Fine Soldier (3:27)
2. The Dance (2:22)
3. Harry's Resignation (10:09)
4. Sniper! (1:27)
5. To Abou Clea (3:08)
6. The Martyrs (2:40)
7. The Mahdi (10:47)
8. The Letters (6:52)
9. Poison From A Friend (6:56)
10. Escape (6:54)
11. Ethne's Feather (4:21)
12. Ghost Of Serenity (6:29)
13. A Coward No Longer (13:49)
