The Big Score

In this tasty episode of The Big Score, composer Marcelo Zarvos talks about creating the music for Searchlight's Flamin' Hot and working with director Eva Longoria to honor Mexican American tradition by making the score culturally specific.

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In this episode, explore the music from National Geographic’s Secrets of the Elephants with composer Tom Howe.

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In this episode, we talk with Kris Bowers and Michael Abels about why they consider Joseph Bologne, Chevalier De Saint-George an 18th-century rock star, “The Prince of his day” and how calling Chevalier the Black Mozart misses the point of how influential the composer, violin virtuoso and conductor was before he was erased from history.

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Host Jon Burlingame sits down with Grammy-winning composer Simon Franglen to discuss his epic score for Avatar: The Way of Water. Simon recalls the singular experience of working with director James Cameron and the tight-knit Avatar family, how sounds of Earth inspired him in the creation of music for another planet, and what the return to Pandora means to him. 

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In this episode of The Big Score, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awarding-winning songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (“Frozen,” “Coco,” “WandaVision,” “Book of Mormon”) discuss the music behind their new Hulu series, “UP HERE,” the backstory to their own love story and how, as co-creators and first time Executive Producers of the show alongside the writer of “tick, tick…BOOM!” and the director of “Hamilton,” they were able to incorporate music and storytelling. With the show set in the 90’s, the duo also reveal their musical inspirations including 90’s female powerhouses Aimee Mann and Fiona Apple, Billy Joel and even a little hip-hop influence bringing the character’s inner voices to life.

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In this episode of The Big Score, composer/producer, Paul Leonard-Morgan, reveals that his mother told him, “don’t go into music, you’ll never make a career of it.” But, in fact, he has made a successful and award-winning career out of it. In creating the score for 20th Century Studios’ “Boston Strangler” airing on Hulu, Paul found great depth in the lead character “Loretta,” the female journalist who helped connect the murders, creating a quieter quartet feel with a massive orchestral sound for ‘the Strangler’ character. As the suspense in the film builds, Paul masterfully meshes the smaller quartet sound with the big orchestral sound and then runs it through 8000 volts of electricity. What happens next? You’ll have to tune in.

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner, creator of the acclaimed FX series, Fleishman Is In Trouble, said composer Caroline Shaw’s score “isn’t just the sound of the show; it’s the soul of it.”  

In this episode of The Big Score, the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning Shaw discusses her writing process, the deeply affecting power of the voice and the challenge of  

finding a chord progression that says “I hate you, I love you, I need you.” 

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"To create a great song, you have to open the door to chaos” reveals musician and composer, Nicolas Godin, in this episode of The Big Score. Composing the score for National Geographic’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Fire of Love” about husband and wife French volcanologists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, Godin reveals how he skipped the “obvious” when creating the ambient soundtrack. Instead of bombastic sounds, he imagined himself in the Krafft’s laboratory and created a soundtrack that embraced both their ground-breaking scientific work as well as their together-to-the end love story.

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In this episode of The Big Score Grammy Award winner and composer, Simon Franglen, takes listeners behind the music of Avatar: The Way of Water, with water being one of the main inspirations for how Simon deftly created an ambient piece of music matching the stunning visuals of the film. But, creating unique water sounds was just one part of the process, tune in to hear how Simon created a new instrument, printed from his sketch on a 3D printer, and perfect for a character 10 feet tall with three fingers. A longtime collaborator with director, James Cameron, Simon also reveals in the episode how he came to work with Cameron initially on Titanic, winning a Grammy for “My Heart Will Go On” and which lead to them collaborating again on the original Avatar, alongside James Horner, and Avatar: The Way of Water.

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Tune in to this week’s episode of The Big Score to hear how GRAMMY-nominated composer, Austin Wintry, pulled together the music for the ALIENS: Fireteam Elite videogame. Talking about the differences between scoring for movies and videogames, Austin reveals that scoring for games can be more dynamic as players become emotionally attached. Speaking to the sound of the score, Austin recalls how he used a Renaissance-era instrument, called “the serpent,” which few people know how to play and was used in the original ALIEN score by Jerry Goldsmith -- an early influence of Austin’s.

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