Aviator - Howard Shore
- The Academy Award nominated and Martin Scorsese directed film The Aviator contains about 20 minutes of an incredible score by composer Howard Shore. Fortunately Decca has released a more complete 40-minute album of the music, which Shore wrote for the picture. The music shows that Shore is still on fire after his remarkable work on The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The main theme for Howard Hughes and the flying scenes is exciting and thrilling with a determined rhythmic idea that pulses in the brass (H1 Racer, The Mighty Hercules). Shore also colors the score with a ticking castanet, which perfectly suits the architecture of southern California of the era. The music masterfully shows the slow disintegration but determination of the billionaire industrialist with a neoclassical approach of many strings weaving in and out of each other in counterpoint. These ideas come together in the main theme and build to a driving climax for when Hughes flies the massive "Spruce Goose."
The Aviator will have Shore fans eagerly awaiting his next big score for Peter Jackson—King Kong.
Reviewer: Brandon Moore
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