OFFLINE PUBLICATIONS
MAGAZINES
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January/February 2005 - #1 - Vol. 10 - page 30-31
"Composers of the Roundtable: James Newton Howard - The Village"
Short article/interview by Jeff Bond
(also about Collateral and Batman Begins)
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June 2000 - #5 - Vol. 5 - page 19
"Dino Music"
Short article/interview by Jeff Bond
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June/July 1994 - #46/47 - Vol. 1 - page 12-13
"James Newton Howard: Scoring Wyatt Earp"
Interview by Daniel Schweiger
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Jan/Feb/Mar 1994 - #41/42/43 - Vol. 1 - page 18-19
"James Newton Howard: Fugitive Composer"
Interview by Will Davis Shivers
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Winter 2000 - #76 - Vol. 19 - page 19-27
"Going to the Vertical Limit with composer James Newton Howard and director / producer / writer Martin Campbell"
Article and session photography by Rudy Koppl
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December 1997 - #64 - Vol. 16 - page 44-46
"James Newton Howard: Devil's Advocate?"
Interview by Randall D. Larson
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March 1997 - #61 - Vol. 16 - page 12-15
"Falling Down"
In-depth cue-by-cue analysis of the Falling Down score by Kjell Neckebroeck
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Feb/March 2001 - #30 - page 14-23
"James Newton Howard Scoring the Impossible Unbreakable with Director M. Night Shyamalan"
Interview and photography by Rudy Koppl
Session photography by Mark Westenberg
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Winter 1995 - #4 - Vol. X - page 10-?
"A Word with James Newton Howard"
Interview by ?
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December 2000 - page 34-36
"James Newton Howard: Master of MIDI Orchestration"
By John Krogh
More technical article
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March 1990 - page 42-48, 50, 52, 56, 60, 62, 64
"Top Guns: Trends, Frustrations, Artistic Skills, & The Impact of Electronics"
By Robert L. Doerschuk
James, Alan Silvestri, Bruce Broughton, David Newman, Michael Kamen and Danny Elfman talk about the impact of electronics in film music
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January 1985 - page 34-36
"Soundpage & Transcription - A Keyboard Performance by James Newton Howard with Paich & Porcaro of Toto 'Amuseum' "
By James Newton Howard and Wendy Smith Howard
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February 1981 - page 44, 56-58
"Elton John's Multi-Keyboard Sideman: James Newton Howard"
By Bob Doerschuk
Interesting and more technical article/interview about James' days with Elton John
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July 17, 2006 (Daily Variety) - Page A1-A6 (online version)
"Billion-Dollar Composer: James Newton Howard"
Special about James with 7 articles:
- "The man who gives films voices" by Jon Burlingame
- "Shyamalan's go-to tunesmith weaves music of the Night" by Jon Burlingame
- "Pledges of allegiance" by Sharon Knolle
- "Composer grows from monster undertaking" by Jon Burlingame and Sharon Knolle
- "Tune titans team up for Batman Begins" by Sharon Knolle
- "Howard's high scores list" by Jon Burlingame
- "Elton orchestrated boost to the big time" by Jon Burlingame
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Winter 2002 - #1 - Vol. 5 - Page 2-6
"Interview with James Newton Howard"
Interview by Jon Burlingame
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January 16, 1996 (Film & TV Music Special Issue) - Page 25-26
"Q&A: James Newton Howard"
Interview by Jon Burlingame
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November 25, 2000 - Page F1 & F20
"He Scores, They Shoot: The Unusual Twist of Unbreakable"
Article by Jon Burlingame
BOOKS
The
Reel World: Scoring For Pictures
By Jeff Rona
Backbeat Books - 2001 - 240 pages
ISBN: 0-87930-591-6
Short interview with James on pages 78-80
The
Score: Interviews With Film Composers
By Michael Schelle
Silman-James Press - 1999 - 420 pages
ISBN: 1-879505-40-1
Long interview with James on pages 175-196
The Power of Music: Scoring a Film in London and
Hollywood
Erlanger Beitrage zur Medientheorie und -praxis (#10 - 1998)
Klaus Kirschner - 1998
ISBN: 3-924598-04-5
Contains a very long English interview on pages 119-163 done by
Alexander von Wechmar in 1995
TV SHOWS
Sunday Morning
Shootout interview
TV talk show of the AMC TV channel aired on June 12, 2005 where James and
Hans Zimmer were interviewed. Cinemusic.net still has a video
clip of it up.
The
Score: Taylor Hackford, James Newton Howard
TV talk show from 2002 by TRIO TV where James and director Taylor
Hackford were interviewed by Phil Ramone. On this interesting episode James talks about his Taylor Hackford films White Nights (as a songwriter), Everybody's All-American and Devil's Advocate. He also performs a beautiful piece from Everybody's All-American on the piano and he discusses and let's us hear several synthesized demo cues from Devil's Advocate in his studio. Several song writers that Hackford worked with are also interviewed. James' interview runs for more than 30 minutes. The episode is nowhere to obtain. You have to
hope for a re-run or for someone who recorded it from TV (IMDb
entry)
The Eddie Files - Patterns: The Big Concert
Episode 10 of an educational TV serie from 1996 about a hypothetical student named Eddie who visits people in the real world to see how they apply mathematical concepts in their jobs. In this episode about patterns he visits James who shows us how he scores Space Jam. Click here to watch James' video clip or buy the VHS tape here.