James Horner was a prolific composer whose vaulting theme music for "Titanic" earned him two Oscars and became the best selling orchestral sound track ever, died on Monday morning when the single-turboprop plane he was flying solo crashed and burned in the Los Padres National Forest in Southern California. He was 61.
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Mr Horner, a music scholar who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles may be remembered for his "Titanic" score and the mega-hit song from the soundtrack, "My Heart Will Go On" But Titanic was just one of more than 100 films that featured his music, including some of the biggest box-office hits of recent decades...."Cocoons", "Field of Dreams", "Glory", "Legends of the Fall", "Brave-heart", "Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", two installment of "Star Trek" franchise, and besides "Titanic" two other blockbusters by the director James Cameron, "Aliens" and "Avatar"
He also scored a dozen television shows and the theme music for an eclectic series of projects, including Michael Jackson's "Captain EO" attraction at Disneyland and Katie Couric's debut on CBS "Evening News". He won six Grammy Awards, including one for his work as a producer. He had just completed scores for two unreleased movies "33" and "Southpaw", and for a documentary film "Living in the Age of Airplanes"
May his soul rest in peace!!!
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