{"id":127495,"date":"2015-06-23T10:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=127495"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:27:26","slug":"titanic-music-composer-horner-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/titanic-music-composer-horner-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic music composer Horner dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
James Horner, the Hollywood composer who wrote the Oscar-winning score for Titanic, has died in a California plane crash aged 61.<\/p>\n
A trained pilot, he is reported to have been alone aboard a small private plane which crashed north of Santa Barbara on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The musician worked on three James Cameron films, as well as A Beautiful Mind, Braveheart, Troy and Apollo 13.<\/p>\n
He won one Oscar for the Titanic film score and another for its theme song.<\/p>\n
The musician shared his second Oscar with lyricist Will Jennings for best original song, the hugely successful My Heart Will Go On, sung by Celine Dion<\/p>\n