James Horner - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

Mike Barnes “James Horner, Film Composer for 'Titanic' and 'Braveheart,' Dies in Plane Crash” http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-horner-dead-titanic-composer-804365
Chris Spargo and Associated Press “Oscar-winning Titanic composer James Horner is killed in plane crash: Tributes for the 'unbelievable talent' behind many famous movie scores” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3135483/Oscar-winning-Titanic-composer-James-Horner-presumed-dead-California-plane-crash.html
Nancy Groves “James Horner, Oscar-winning Titanic composer, dies aged 61 in plane crash” http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/23/pilot-killed-as-plane-registered-to-titanic-composer-james-horner-crashes
Adam Sweeting “James Horner obituary” http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/23/james-horner
Peter Bradshaw “James Horner was a virtuoso: subtle, stirring – and astonishingly prolific” http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/jun/23/james-horner-was-a-virtuoso-subtle-stirring-and-astonishingly-prolific

映画音楽作曲家のジェームズ・ホーナー *1がカリフォルニアにて自らが操縦する小型飛行機が墜落して死去。享年61歳。
彼はジェームズ・キャメロンの『タイタニック』のサントラで特に有名ということになるのだろうけど、その生い立ちと若き日のことをAdam Sweetingの記事から引いてみる；

Horner was born in Los Angeles to Joan (nee Frankel) and Harry. His father, who had been born in Czechoslovakia, moved to the US in 1935, and was an art director and set designer who won Oscars for his work on The Heiress (1949) and The Hustler (1961). James began playing the piano when he was five, and was sent to study at the Royal College of Music in London. He returned to Los Angeles, took a bachelor’s degree in music at the University of Southern California, and went on to postgraduate work at University of California, Los Angeles.
He began his film career in the late 1970s by working on shorts for the American Film Institute, and wrote his first full-length score for 1979’s The Lady in Red (directed by Lewis Teague, but re-released by Roger Corman in 1980 as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin). After cutting his teeth on films such as Oliver Stone’s horror flick The Hand (1981), he made the leap to large-scale popular work with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Walter Hill’s buddy-cops yarn, 48 Hrs (1982), and Michael Apted’s well-received 1983 film version of Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Gorky Park. Horner was born in Los Angeles to Joan (nee Frankel) and Harry. His father, who had been born in Czechoslovakia, moved to the US in 1935, and was an art director and set designer who won Oscars for his work on The Heiress (1949) and The Hustler (1961). James began playing the piano when he was five, and was sent to study at the Royal College of Music in London. He returned to Los Angeles, took a bachelor’s degree in music at the University of Southern California, and went on to postgraduate work at University of California, Los Angeles.
He began his film career in the late 1970s by working on shorts for the American Film Institute, and wrote his first full-length score for 1979’s The Lady in Red (directed by Lewis Teague, but re-released by Roger Corman in 1980 as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin). After cutting his teeth on films such as Oliver Stone’s horror flick The Hand (1981), he made the leap to large-scale popular work with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Walter Hill’s buddy-cops yarn, 48 Hrs (1982), and Michael Apted’s well-received 1983 film version of Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Gorky Park.