Thomas Newman’s Five Most Beautiful Movie Scores
Music that will take you on a breathtaking journey of heart-wrenching beauty
Music is the language of emotion. No medium utilises the emotive power of music better than films, and there are a few out there who can claim to have created as many beautifully emotive scores as Thomas Newman.
He has a real knack for mixing contrasting emotions, calm with pain, heartache with joy, sadness with the feeling that it’s okay to be sad. Thomas’s Newman’s music is often a rollercoaster of hopeless hope.
Here are five of his most breathtaking scores.
Any Other Name — American Beauty
Scored for the film American Beauty, a brilliant but unnerving watch, this has to be one of the most poignant and yet oddly calming pieces of music ever written.
The gentle piano strokes, if you just close your eyes and take a deep breath, they will take you to a place away from all the chaos. A place where it is just you, you are walking…
