Overlooked death of a composer

I just feel that they closed the case on his death was too soon.

You sound like you think there's something suspicious about his death...

If you mean his death wasn't mourned enough, then I would say you have unrealistic expectations because normally technical/craft people don't get much attention. He probably got more than usual because he relatively young and in a horrible accident. In fact it got more attention from people across the whole industry, than I expected. And I didn't anticipate the general public would even know who he was (it probably has to do with Titanic, which was for years the most popular film in history, and still has the biggest selling orchestral soundtrack).

My fav score of his is probably Braveheart. Or Brainstorm. One of those two.

Horner did a lot of great scores...and they all have passages in them that sound like Star Trek II...so I have to say my favorite is Star Trek II! Everything in his talent was all there in that one score! He seemed to "peak" right there! I do like how he went on to add beautiful, ethereal synth sounds in Braveheart, Titanic and Avatar.

The day of his tragic death in a plane that crashed that he was flying solo, I was floored, came here and posted some "reflections"...about how the gloomy main title theme for Titanic, forever entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic, now seems to serve as James Horner's own requiem.

Cocoon has a passage in it, when the old folks are being chased by the Coast Guard at night en route to a rendezvous with the extraterrestrials in their Mothership, that sounds EXACTLY like the music when Spock is exposing himself to the fatal radiation in order to get the warp drive engines back online in Star Trek II.

Star Trek III of course reprises the wonderful themes from Star Trek II, prioritizing Spock's theme with much passion, since the movie IS The Search for Spock.

Glory, with its slow, steady march of courage and honor for the black Massachussetts 54th regiment in the Civil War, fills me with much warmth.

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