‘Avatar 2’: How Simon Franglen’s Score Weaves a Complex Tapestry With a World-Music Touch

Simon Franglen’s three-hour score for “Avatar: The Way of Water” – a massive, complex work involving orchestras, choirs and world-music soloists from across the globe – is the end product of five years of work. The London-born Franglen, who is currently on both score and song Oscar shortlists for James Cameron’s hugely popular sequel, was a close friend and colleague of James Horner, the original “Avatar” composer who was killed in a plane crash in 2015. It was Franglen, an electronic-music specialist who also worked on Horner’s Oscar-winning “Titanic,” who came up with many of the magical sounds for the… Read Full Article