Song:Stealing The Enterprise
Album:Star Trek III: The Search For Spock: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Newly Expanded Edition
Before his untimely 2015 death, James Horner was one of Hollywood's top film composers. He was probably best known for the 1997 film Titanic which won him an Oscar. But he built his reputation on a couple of Star Trek films. He was born Aug. 14, 1953 in Los Angeles. His father Harry Horner was an Oscar winning art director and set designer. Horner played piano as a child. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and he has a bachelor's degree from USC. His first score was for the 1979 film The Lady In Red. That was produced by Roger Corman's wife Julie Corman. Then he scored some films for Roger Corman's New World Pictures like Battle Beyond the Stars. After scoring The Hand and Wolfen, Horner got his big break when Nicholas Meyer hired him to score the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. Meyer joked that Horner was hired because Paramount could no longer afford Jerry Goldsmith who scored the first Star Trek film. That film established Horner as an A-list composer. He also scored the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. The soundtrack for that film was released by GNP Crescendo but is out of print. An expended 2CD edition was released by Film Score Monthly in 2006. Horner's first Oscar nomination was for the 1986 film Aliens. And for co-writing Somewhere Out There with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weill for An American Tail. He won three Grammys for that. He also worked regularly for Ron Howard after scoring Cocoon. In the 90s he scored Braveheart and Apollo 13. And of course he had his greatest success scoring James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic. He also scored Avatar among other Cameron films. After scoring the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man, Horner turned down the sequel and went on hiatus. Just as he was returning, Horner's plane crashed and he died on June 22, 2015 at age 61. Horner was an experienced pilot and he was the only occupant of the plane. Three films he scored were released after his death including the 2016 film The Magnificent Seven. Here's a video for Stealing The Enterprise by James Horner from the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search For Spock.
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