Ahhh! James Horner! We Lost You!

Ahhh! James Horner! We Lost You!

I inadvertently found you and your music due to more advanced technology, and I realize that you died at age 61, in 2015, June 22, flying a plane.

I see your scores of film music going back to the late 1970s, and I realize you have been there, your works and inspirational sounds, since I was little, continuing into my later adulthood. 

Thank you. You are missed, but you shared so much.

Some accuse you of borrowing (i.e. stealing) others' work and all, but all artists do that, in my opinion. All art inspires others. How can we not use what we hear, feel, and know?

A copied compilation of your movie scores (https://www.last.fm/music/James+Horner/+wiki):

Horner's first score for a feature film was Up from the Depths (1979), a joint effort with composer Russell O'Malley. Spending the early parts of his career scoring low-budget horror and science fiction films, he eventually formed a working relationship with director and producer Roger Corman, and would go on to compose the score for Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars; parts of this score would be re-used in many Corman productions to come.

His first major film score was The Lady in Red (1979), garnering attention from Hollywood. With the score for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, established Horner as a mainstream composer. Throughout the 1980s, Horner composed scores for high-profile films such as Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Cocoon and Aliens, the latter garnering Horner's first nomination for an Academy Award; Horner has been nominated nine times since.

Throughout the late 80s and early 90s, Horner composed scores for children's films (particularly those produced by Amblin Entertainment), amongst which were An American Tail (1986), for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award (the song "Somewhere Out There" won the Grammy for Best Original Song) as well as an Academy Award; The Land Before Time (1988), and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993).

1995 saw Horner produce no fewer than six scores, including his commercially successful and critically-acclaimed works for Braveheart and Apollo 13, both of which earned him Academy Award nominations. Horner's greatest financial and critical success would come in 1997, with the score to the motion picture, Titanic, which was greatly influenced by the music of Clannad. The album became the best-selling primarily orchestral soundtrack in history, selling over 27 million copies worldwide. The score would later win Academy Awards for Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song ("My Heart Will Go On", performed by Celine Dion), as well as Golden Globe Awards for the same two categories.

In the 2000s, Horner received Academy Award nominations for A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). In 2009, Horner was nominated for every major award for the score of Avatar, but ultimately, all were lost to Michael Giacchino's Up, Horner has cited the composition for said score as the single most difficult artistic challenge of his career, requiring two years of devotion to this sole project. Avatar has since surpassed Titanic, also a James Cameron-Horner collaboration, as the highest-grossing film of all time.

Subsequent to the worldwide success gained from Titanic, Horner has preferred to be involved with smaller projects which has enabled him to develop a quieter, more minimal style of music, examples of which can be heard in independent films such as Iris, The Chumscrubber, Apocalypto, The Life Before Her Eyes, and the upcoming 2011 film The Song of Names.

He composed many great, grand, memorable, touching, inspirational, titillating, thrilling, awe inspiring, and moving times of my life through film.

Thanks for contributing to my conscious and sub-conscious. 

I may have noted your passing then (perhaps in my blog? I will check...), but I realize today that you gave us a great touch of life and art and magic while you were here.