Wow, very impressed with The New World score! Very, very impressed. It's definitely Horner, but there is a lot of soft, ethereal emotion (which he's quite good at) in it. I love it, and I'll be purchasing it immediately. I do hear a little of his older scores, but no more often than when I...
Horner is a composer who has some outstanding scores in him. While I agree that he recycles, I don't think he's much worse than most professionals. I enjoyed Jurassic Park this weekend, and I swear if I shut my eyes, I'd see starships and Jedi Knights in action. It wasn't that the music was...