James Horner

James Horner was a very talented multi award winning film composer who has shared his talent in over 75 films, many of which were box office hits. He has set the bar for so many composers in the world of scoring. James Horner was born from an Austro-Hungarian dad and a Canadian mother. James’s dad immigrated to the United States in 1935 where he builds a career as a set designer and art director. James was born August 14, 1953 in Los Angles, California. At a very young age James was exposed to the

James Roy Horner is Las Angeles native, born on August 14th,1953. James Horner started playing piano at the age of five. At a young age, James studied in London, where he attended the Royal College of Music. He returned to America, where he attended Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona, and later received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California. After he earned a master's degree, he started work on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles where

Ennio Morricone once said, "Music in film must not just add emphasis but must give more body and depth to the story, to the characters, to the language that the director has chosen. It must, therefore, say all that the dialogue, images, effects etc., cannot say". (Peacock, R., 2001. The Art of Moving Making. New Jersey: Prentice Hall). In the early years of film making the purpose of music was to keep the audience from talking and to dull the sound of the noisy projector (Schaefer, H., Emotion and

James Horner was the composer for the movie Avatar, and was sadly passed away in June 22, 2015 in a plane crash. He was born in August 14, 1953, in Los Angeles, California. Horner began the life of a musician at an early age of five years of age, and continued his practices at the Royal College of Music in London, England. He further continued his studies of music and received a bachelor's degree at USC and both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at UCLA. Horner first breakthrough was when he composed

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A mysterious airplane arrives at gate 2B of the airport. It was not supposed to be there. It did not show up on the radar, It was not a scheduled flight, and all airplanes were accounted for. It just appeared. There was no one on board except 36 babies. This is a piece of the book The Missing: Found by Margaret Peterson. While this story takes place in a unique, interesting, and unrealistic setting, it still has a universal theme to it. The author shows that the characters can make strong friendships

In the novel, “Dead To You”, written by Lisa McMann, a 2nd grader, named Ethan goes missing for 9 years. He later returns to his searching family at the age of 16. His child abductor named Ellen, kept and took care of him till she abandoned him at a child care center in Nebraska. He ran away after a few days of being at the child care center with no hope for Ellen. He lived on the streets for 3-4 years and spent most of his time on the Library computers, looking for missing children searches. After

Whether you were at work, sitting at home watching TV, or not even born yet, there are many crazy things that happened in the year 1996 that you have never heard about. I was born on December 20, 1996 in Miles City, Montana. This means that while most of these crazy events were taking place, I was not even born yet. A few things that happened in 1996 include the vetoing of the ban on a procedure for late abortions, the Unabomber being captured and arrested, and South Africa receiving a new constitution