Living in the Age of Airplanes

Intrada is proud to announce the premiere CD release of James Horner's score for the 2015 documentary Living in the Age of Airplanes. Horner was passionate about flying and loved to score the subject of aviation. Having previously scored the documentaries First in Flight and the Fourth Horseman, not to mention films with flying as a central theme such as The Rocketeer, Horner gravitated to the subject and poured his heart into it.

Intrada is proud to announce the premiere CD release of James Horner's score for the 2015 documentary Living in the Age of Airplanes. Horner was passionate about flying and loved to score the subject of aviation. Having previously scored the documentaries First in Flight and the Fourth Horseman, not to mention films with flying as a central theme such as The Rocketeer, Horner gravitated to the subject and poured his heart into it. One can hear Horner's very soul soaring through his music. Through a beautiful melding of wordless vocals, electronics and orchestra, Horner takes the listener on a musical journey, around the world, through time, and into the air above the clouds.

Directed by Brian J. Terwilliger and narrated by Harrison Ford, Living in the Age of Airplanes takes the viewer through a spectacularly filmed journey through the evolution of transportation and the almost miraculous way the barriers to traveling far and wide fell away with the advent of the airplane. Through striking visuals, the film shows how relatively stagnant and primitive humankind's ability to move around was for most of human evolution, only fairly recently allowing travelers to get to islands with no way in except by airplane, allowing flowers to travel from Kenya to Amsterdam to Alaska in just days, or just getting from one coast to another in mere hours. Without the airplane, people would probably not make these journeys.

Now come take flight with James Horner's magical score, his music lighting up the runway from the past to today, and soaring with the human ingenuity that opened up the world to all of us.

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Soaring aural treat for James Horner fans! CD premiere of his magnificent, compelling score for superb Brian J. Terwilliger film chronicling impact of aviation on the modern world offers one majestic musical highlight after another! National Geographic Studios presents documentary in stunning IMAX format with dynamic narration by Harrison Ford.
Lensed across all 7 continents with footage shot in 18 countries, Terwilliger approaches story not from viewpoint of expected aviation warfare and conflict but from awe-inspiring look at the profound legacy airplane travel offers in the vast footprint of human life on earth.
Meaty subject matter for composer Horner to tackle! Terwilliger, an accomplished pilot - in liner notes of his own authorship - notes his choice for composer was born out of his passion for Horner’s film music and his meeting with the composer at a 2008 airshow, which begat a friendship leading to Horner creating music for the film.
In fact, the premiere of Terwilliger’s tribute to commercial flight was given at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in April 2015, just two months before Horner’s tragic death in a solo airplane crash he himself was piloting in June of that year.
One of the very last projects he completed, Horner embellished Living In The Age Of Airplanes with 50 minutes of rich melody infused with major-key harmonies throughout. Ideas literally aim for the skies with passioned, inspired architecture, anchored by an uplifting choral line that plays at key moments. Highlights are numerous and surging climaxes abound! Deserving the spotlight: “History Of Transportation”.
Here, in just 3 minutes, Horner matches the montage visuals of the locomotive engine under construction and, as the wheels pump, Horner responds with his own propulsive rhythmic motif, now in minor with French horns, then trumpets surging forward.
As the powerful images meld into those of an airplane at takeoff, Horner responds with his own resplendent climax in the major. Masterful! Another spotlight goes to “Nearly Perfected”, where Horner builds upon variants of his primary choral motif, now in full orchestra. Yet another spotlight shines on “Exponential Progress”, with Horner scoring one of Terwilliger’s most fascinating montages with a new motif of alternating major-minor chords that comes to a quasi-heavenly climax with spectacular aerial shots of the Golden Gate Bridge, solo female voice and trumpet to the fore.
Terwilliger’s impeccably shot and presented film is also available on Blu-ray from National Geographic. Gripping visuals, stunning audio, inspired music! James Horner composes, Simon Franglen produces, Simon Rhodes engineers, Jim Henrikson and Dick Bernstein edit, Allan Wilson conducts, the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra performs.

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