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Childhood Soundtrack by James Horner
10 years ago
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Film composer James Horner died on June 22, 2015 in a plane crash. I was listening to his majestic space-opera score to 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' (one of my favorites) when I caught the sad news, which hit me hard and which I'm still processing.
James Horner scored so many of the films that informed my youthful sense of wonder, my childhood whimsy, my aching sense of delight in worlds that could be and might have been, that it's hard for me to express. His emotive, evocative, bombastic, vividly memorable music was the engine that powered so many of the films that meant so much to me as a wistful, awkward, dreamy kid. Along with Jerry Goldsmith ('Secret of NIMH'), he gifted my youthful years with achingly beautiful old-school orchestral scores and soundtracks that still have the power to touch me. I listen, and I'm not just remembering what it was to be my young self... I AM my young self, staring up at the night sky and dreaming of otherworldly vistas, of dragons and spaceships, of heroes and far-flung futures that haven't yet been written. I owe a part of myself to his music.
For 'Star Trek II', 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Star Trek III', 'Krull', 'Aliens', 'Willow', 'An American Tail', 'The Land Before Time', 'Glory', 'Balto', and so many others... all I can say is, thank you.
James Horner scored so many of the films that informed my youthful sense of wonder, my childhood whimsy, my aching sense of delight in worlds that could be and might have been, that it's hard for me to express. His emotive, evocative, bombastic, vividly memorable music was the engine that powered so many of the films that meant so much to me as a wistful, awkward, dreamy kid. Along with Jerry Goldsmith ('Secret of NIMH'), he gifted my youthful years with achingly beautiful old-school orchestral scores and soundtracks that still have the power to touch me. I listen, and I'm not just remembering what it was to be my young self... I AM my young self, staring up at the night sky and dreaming of otherworldly vistas, of dragons and spaceships, of heroes and far-flung futures that haven't yet been written. I owe a part of myself to his music.
For 'Star Trek II', 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', 'Star Trek III', 'Krull', 'Aliens', 'Willow', 'An American Tail', 'The Land Before Time', 'Glory', 'Balto', and so many others... all I can say is, thank you.
LazyRayFinkle
~lazyrayfinkle
I've loved this man's work since I was a teenager. This is just tragic. God rest him.
Stitch
~stitch
OP
As a young kid growing up in the '80s, his music often reached deep into me and stirred a sense of wonderment and longing that few others could at the time. The fact that I was listening to his music when the news broke was like having my feet swept out from under me. He definitely went before his time, but he left behind quite a legacy.
Tea_Party_Rabbit
~teapartyrabbit
I took a double take when I saw the post on MSN. My first thought was that many probably didn't know him by name, but would recognize the music.
Stitch
~stitch
OP
He was old-school in a lot of ways, but his music did adapt over the years, thought I'll admit that the stuff that meant the most to me was the music from the '80s. I still get a bit misty-eyed for the overture to 'Trek III'.
