23 episodes

Welcome to "The Big Score", a Hollywood Records original series, where you’re invited on an exclusive, behind the scenes journey inside the minds of some of culture's most innovative composers in show business. Featuring Siddhartha Khosla (Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building), Jeff Ament (FX’s limited series Under the Banner of Heaven), Pilou (Searchlight Picture’s NOT OKAY), Daniel Pemberton (Searchlight’s See How They Run and 20th Century’s Amsterdam), Amanda Jones (National Geographic’s Super/Natural), and Carter Burwell (Searchlight’s Banshees of Inisherin). Subscribe to the Big Score for a remarkable front row seat to the origin story behind some of Film and TV’s most iconic musical moments.

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    • 3.9 • 15 Ratings

Welcome to "The Big Score", a Hollywood Records original series, where you’re invited on an exclusive, behind the scenes journey inside the minds of some of culture's most innovative composers in show business. Featuring Siddhartha Khosla (Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building), Jeff Ament (FX’s limited series Under the Banner of Heaven), Pilou (Searchlight Picture’s NOT OKAY), Daniel Pemberton (Searchlight’s See How They Run and 20th Century’s Amsterdam), Amanda Jones (National Geographic’s Super/Natural), and Carter Burwell (Searchlight’s Banshees of Inisherin). Subscribe to the Big Score for a remarkable front row seat to the origin story behind some of Film and TV’s most iconic musical moments.

    Marcelo Zarvos on Searchlight’s Flamin’ Hot | The Big Score

    Marcelo Zarvos on Searchlight’s Flamin’ Hot | 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.

    • 6 min
    Tom Howe on National Geographic’s Secrets of the Elephants | The Big Score

    Tom Howe on National Geographic’s Secrets of the Elephants | The Big Score

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

    • 1 min
    Kris Bowers & Michael Abels on Searchlight’s Chevalier | The Big Score

    Kris Bowers & Michael Abels on Searchlight’s Chevalier | The Big Score

    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.

    • 4 min
    DISNEY'S FOR SCORES: Simon Franglen

    DISNEY'S FOR SCORES: Simon Franglen

    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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    • 34 min
    Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez on Hulu’s Up Here | The Big Score

    Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez on Hulu’s Up Here | The Big Score

    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.

    • 6 min
    Paul Leonard-Morgan on Boston Strangler | The Big Score

    Paul Leonard-Morgan on Boston Strangler | The Big Score

    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.

    • 4 min

Customer Reviews

3.9 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

dreed88 ,

A Perfect Podcast…If It Was Longer

I absolutely love the breadth of talent that is interviewed in this podcast! It’s just a shame that so many of the episodes are SO SHORT. They barely scratch the surface, and seem to end just as they’re getting interesting.

Speaking of ending abruptly, some of the episodes are poorly edited and end at the incorrect time (we’re talking mid-sentence of the interviewee speaking). What’s up with that?

venomousgirl17 ,

I wish these were longer

I love movie scores and I could listen to these composers talk about their inspiration for much longer than 4 or 5 minutes. I appreciate some have their full interviews released.

To the people hating on no women being on the podcast - did they miss Amanda Jones? Also there aren’t as many female composers in this space. It’s not like the podcast is excluding them on purpose.

S.Sitron ,

Lack of women featured is absurd

I know some niches of music tend to male dominated, but they aren’t even trying to include an equal representation of women. The ad for this podcast that I saw on Hulu had zero women/non-binary featured. Gross.

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