James Newton Howard
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James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music arranger.
He has worked on more than 100 films and has received a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations.
Pretty Woman (1990), Grand Canyon (1991), The Fugitive (1993), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (1997), The Devil's Advocate (2001), The Blind Knight (2005), The Mistakene Legacy (2005), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2015).
He has worked with director M. Night Shyamalan, having scored nine of his films since The Sixth Senses, Peter Jackson, composing the score for King Kong's 2005 remake of The Dark Knight Trilogy, and Francis Lawrence, who has directed all of his films since I Am Legend.
Personal life
Howard found that his father was Jewish when delving into his family's history twenty-five years after his father's death, (the family's original surname was Horowitz). Howard later became a Reconstructionist Jew, despite being born Protestant.
In 1986, James Newton Howard married Rosanna Arquette and divorced a year later. He married Sophie Howard in 1992, and the pair have two children, Jackson and Hayden.
Early life and career
Howard was born in Los Angeles. He comes from a musical family; his grandmother was a violinist. His father was Jewish, but he didn't want his children to know he was, so he switched his last name from Horowitz to Howard.
Howard began studying music as a child, taking classical piano lessons at the age of four. With Reginald Stewart and Leon Fleischer, he continued to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, California, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. He continued to attend the University of Southern California as a piano performance major, but then dropped out after six weeks because "He wanted to do other things than playing the piano."
After Howard graduated from college, he formed Mama Lion, a short-lived rock band. Neil Merryweather (bass, backing vocals) and featured lead singer Lynn Carey, Coffi Hall on drums, and Rick Gaxiola on guitar. Mama Lion has released two full length albums. Members of Mama Lion also formed the band Heavy Cruiser with Merryweather, who is now on lead vocals, and the band's new releases, including two albums that were closer to hard rock but also displayed psychedelic and progressive influences. He spent a few years as a session singer with musicians including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. He referred to himself as "dirt bad" before his manager gave him an audition with Elton John in the early 1970s. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he joined John's band and performed with them as a keyboardist. On September 13, 1980, he was a member of Central Park, New York, who performed there. Howard has also arranged strings for several of John's songs, including "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems to Be the Most Word," as well as "Rock of the Westies" (1978), and The Fox (1981).
Howard appeared on Toto IV as the strings conductor and orchestrator for "I Won't Hold You Back," "Afraid of Love," and "Lovers in the Night" in 1982. James Newton Howard and Friends, a year later, was released as a live album by Toto's David Paich (keyboards), Steve Porcaro (keyboards), Jeff Porcaro (drums), and Joe Porcaro (percussion).
Howard was co-producer, guitarist (keyboards), and orchestrator of Riccardo Cocciante's album Sincerità in 1983.
Howard wrote his first piece of score for a film in 1984, receiving a co-writing credit with David Paich for the cue "Trip to Arrakis" in Toto's music for the David Lynch film Dune.
He took a chance with his manager to write a score for a film after briefly touring Crosby, Stills, and Nash. This career change will lead to his success as a film composer. He did not completely abandon his previous musical path and rejoined Elton John on his Tour De Force of Australia in the fall of 1986. During the second half of the set, he performed both his own and Paul Buckmaster's arrangements, which concentrated on orchestrated performances of selected songs from the Elton John catalog.