I've spent the last hour going through youtube videos of a sampling of James Horner's work. It's opened my eyes. I've valued Horner's music, at least since his Oscar award winning Titanic soundtrack.
And the soundtrack for Avatar was one of the few that I ever bought-- and one I still play routinely.
But digging into Youtube, discovering all the other movies I didn't realize his music had enhanced made his loss at the young age of 61 in a two seater plane crash all the more painful.
James Horner added great beauty to our world. He touched my heart, inspired me, so many times. Below you'll find a handful of my picks of some of his best, though, to be honest, whole movie soundtracks would have to be included to truly do him justice.
First, A Gift of Thistle, from Braveheart.
This is going to be harder than I thought. Just listening to this first one gives me chills.
Somewhere Out There-- sung by Linda Rondstadt and James Ingraham, from the movie, American Tail, nominated in 1986 for Best Original score Oscar.
Bicentennial Man-- Celine Dion
Titanic
Avatar I See You song
Braveheart Theme Song
Willow: Elora
Cocoon Ascension
Deep Impact
Star Trek 2
Field of Dreams
End Credits Apollo 13
Avatar Bioluminescence of the night
Please use image gallery youtube search to add your favorite James Horner music in a comment.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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