Personal archive of composer James Horner donated to UCLA Library
The UCLA alumnus was known for his award-winning scores for films such as -Avatar, Titanic- and -A Beautiful Mind- The UCLA alumnus was known for his award-winning scores for films such as -Avatar, Titanic- and -A Beautiful Mind Covering Horner's professional career, from 1979 to 2015, the archive includes scores and orchestrations, sketches, and the composer's handwritten notes and corrections from over a hundred films. The collection, organized by UCLA alumnus Tomąs Peire Serrate and donated by Sara Nelson Horner, is valued at more the $2.2 million. The personal archive of the late renowned composer James Horner has been donated to UCLA Library by his wife, Sara Nelson Horner. The collection, valued at more than $2.2 million, features thousands of personal notes, scores and orchestrations. It spans from 1979, the year of Horner's first credit as a composer for feature films, to 2015, when he died at the age of 61. The archive includes Horner's early scores for films by American Film Institute students and for noted B-movie director Roger Corman, as well as full orchestrations from his compositions for blockbusters such as "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982), "Aliens" (1986), "Apollo 13" (1995), "-Jumanji" (1995), "Braveheart" (1995), "Titanic" (1997), "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) and "Avatar" (2009). "I'm happy to see that the UCLA Library will be helping to preserve James Horner's creative legacy for future generations of composers and filmmakers," said James Cameron, the Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter and producer with whom Horner collaborated on "Aliens," "Titanic" and "Avatar," which remains the world's highest-grossing film.
