James Horner - Flight

Originally recorded as "Flight Demonstration Music", premiered in concert as "Flight" by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Costa Mesa, CA, on May 8, 2014

[@rogermain2885]

What an inspirational peace of music from a great composer great loss RIP

[@sayenshin]

"Ta na naaaaaaaaa nan" - He really loved that particular humming. So beautiful too.

[@ScoreCues]

Superb! Anytime Horner got to write music for flight the results were always excellent. Still missed.

[@rosellezubey]

James is flying with the angels now. Whenever I hear a plane flying overhead but don't see it I think that it's James. RIP

[@cbrew8794]

James is up there with Jeff Kuss

[@caritats]

... and James Horner is flying in the heaven. Really he was a wonder musician.

[@elisegaso1903]

MAGNIFIQUE

[@TB1M1]

This is amazing , there are no words Soarin over California by Goldsmith is good too..

[@thomasthampengkintham452]

will be miss by many fans of Mr Horner music score

[@enricoo.dastous6096]

Your music's lived for always in our hearts James!

[@fireghost5988]

i cry every time i hear this music

[@loziba7491]

Rip James Horner ...Seguros que estara componiendo para nuestro señor gracias por la musica mas bonita que e escuchado en mi vida y me a servido en momentos mas dificiles ahora se que siempre te escuchare sea en la tierra o ya sabes donde . asta pronto..y dios quiera

[@Mirage_Mach5]

Thank you for posting this fantastic piece of music!

[@davidlounsberry4127]

I love it! I hear pieces of braveheart, glory, perfect storm, beautiful mind, Apollo 13, Casper, Titanic, steamboy (which is by Steve Jablonsky and I always thought it sounded more like Horner than Zimmer), star trek 2, the rocketeer, and many more!

[@davidlounsberry4127]

field of dreams...

[@ROTKFreak]

+David Lounsberry Hey there! I also love this piece. Where do you hear Field of Dreams? :)

[@davidlounsberry4127]

+Todd M. Gerundo at about 3:50 or just after until 4:15

[@davidlounsberry4127]

+David Lounsberry cocoon... how'd I miss that

[@MrReeferRod]

Don’t forget Krull! The best one of all 💪👍

[@davidlounsberry4127]

I have no idea how I missed this! I have been struggling coping with Horner's death this past week while trying to re-immerse myself in Horner's music. Nothing about it made sense to me. The seemingly senseless risk he took becoming a stunt pilot. But it all makes sense now. In an interview he talks about someday soon flying to this piece of music he wrote. And all his generosity and kindness in ignoring his own financial gains to write for little or no money leading up to his death led me to conclude that somewhere deep inside, his soul was preparing for his final "Flight".

[@rosellezubey]

+David Lounsberry They said James died doing what he loved. It doesn't make sense for me either but I think we are both blessed in that we have his incredible legacy to enjoy. Enjoying the music and watching his old interviews really helps me to feel that James is the angel on my shoulder.

[@davidlounsberry4127]

Roselle Zubey for sure... What a blessing to the world James was. So influential in my life and childhood.

[@peghines]

This piece is his soul. How could those elements not be incorporated in it? Flying touched the wonder and joy within his soul and took it to the next level. High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… . Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew - And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. - John Gillespie Magee, Jr

[@TitusFFM]

I'm 33 year's old while listening to this peace of work I simply stated to cry like a baby. Why because James Horner music is the soundtrack of my life. I grew up with An American Tail, Land before Time so many other soundtracks that I have hear in my childhood. Each time I listen to some music track of Horners 80 soundtrack I have a flashback of memorys. The worst thing is that he will never hear how grateful I'm for so much music that he composed. sorry for my bad english writing.

[@vertigelt]

I couldn't agree more. He truly wrote his soul with this piece, and nearly every piece that had to do with flight.

[@aireworks1]

As James Horner quoted it, "This is the Ultimate Film Score"

[@porremt]

It may sound morbid but I can accept his death a little more knowing he died doing something he truly loved. But we truly lost one of the greatest composers ever and will forever be missed.

[@vertigelt]

Rebecca Porr , no. it's not morbid. it's a tiny bit of solace.

[@gbertolozzi6629]

Agreed. Rest in the Lord's peace, James Roy Horner 😞🙏 (8/14/1953 - 6/22/2015)

[@fredpagniello3267]

And that captures soaring through the air in a piece of machinery, where pilot and machine are but one, the latter becomes part of the former.

[@victorsigalov2822]

HOLA. BELLA PARTITURA Y BUEN ARREGLO ORQUESTAL. MUY BUENO!!!...E

[@almadenvalleyts]

Inspiration is Hornet's legacy for all times.

[@NL197]

Both of these pieces of music were briefly available on the iTunes store, but as the ASB.TV company dried up, I suspect the rights to this music dried up with it. Can't sell music if there's no one to accept the income for it.

[@seankim884]

Is It Just Me Or Does It Sounds Like Soarin Over California Music?

[@imaginacine4219]

Live inside US

[@rickfrank7934]

Any idea where we can purchase this music?

[@ROTKFreak]

Rick Frank Convert it to mp3 here: www.youtube-mp3.org/

[@vertigelt]

+Rick Frank This wasn't ever commercially released on its own. It came bundled with the DVd/Blu-Ray documentary, "The Horsemen Cometh", which had aired on various PBS stations across the nation. It was an included CD with two tracks, "Flight Demonstration Music" (this piece here) and "Write Your Soul", which underscored the short documentary about James Horner's involvement with the flight team and his musical contribution to their act. All the materials are available variously online in different locations, but the outfits that used to sell the documentary collector's set either no longer sell it or no longer exist, period. Personally, I think it would be worthwhile for soundtrack publishers to secure the rights to these tracks and to publish them jointly with the Horner's music to the documentary, "Living in the Age of Airplanes" and his music to the AFI short film, "First in Flight", all written in the past 5 years, and all representative of the passion he lived so hard it took him from us. It would be a fitting tribute. This music is one of his chief musical achievements, in my opinion, from a career replete with stunning achievements. The world deserves to hear it, so I took it upon myself to put it online despite (or more accurately because of) its general unavailability elsewise.

[@rickfrank7934]

That is very nice. Yes I would like to purchase it somehow if there is a way

[@FifthContinentMusic]

One of the very few Horner works we actually like.