As the years passed, Horner's bicefalous activity is increasing, and like a musical schizophrenic he is taking turns between his two faces in a very simple way: There is an aggressive, violent Horner, of frantic and percussive rhythms, the one in Aliens (1986) or Clear and Present Danger (1994), and there is also a sweet and romantic Horner, loosed, of melancholic tones, principally rested on strings and winds, the one we saw previously, for example, in Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), and now in To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, a tender story of lost love and remembrances. Horner do not refuse this clearly intimate status, and so the score did not include a moment more or less haughty, flowing melodic and harmonically between piano and clarinet solos, and reaching its highest peak on the 12 minutes of the last cue, a true trademark. At the end, the really funny thing is to find that between the two Horner there is no much difference, and the better equilibrium among both expedite a better score. M.A.F.

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