Angels in America [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2003)

Already associated with HBO for his award-winning Six Feet Under theme, the network tapped Thomas Newman to compose the music for Angels in America, its much-publicized, star-heavy adaptation of the Tony Kushner play. Totaling just over 70 minutes, the soundtrack weaves together pieces short and long, intimate and bold to help tell an elaborate story of AIDS in the '80s and angels in our world. It opens with "Threshold of Revelation," where snatches of vocal are drowned in the unsettling roar of a trumpet fanfare. Only a ... Read More

Already associated with HBO for his award-winning Six Feet Under theme, the network tapped Thomas Newman to compose the music for Angels in America, its much-publicized, star-heavy adaptation of the Tony Kushner play. Totaling just over 70 minutes, the soundtrack weaves together pieces short and long, intimate and bold to help tell an elaborate story of AIDS in the '80s and angels in our world. It opens with "Threshold of Revelation," where snatches of vocal are drowned in the unsettling roar of a trumpet fanfare. Only a minute long, it nevertheless gets at what it might feel like -- amazing, scary, and beautiful all at once -- to be visited by an angel. Especially if you think it's just the pills talking, as one character in the film does. But as tense as "Threshold" and selections like the brooding "Ramble" or the bold, odd "Black Angel" are, Newman fills the film's main title with an irrepressible sense of hope. Its lilting melody is immediately addicting, its shimmering corners awash in sunlight. In fact, the entirety of Angels in America seems to shimmer, whether it's moving to the stirring strains of a choir ("The Infinite Descent") or getting a bit whimsical while suggesting the main theme's melody ("Pill Poppers"). Like the film itself, Newman's music finds ways to be not quite of this world, while at the same time grappling with very real issues and universal emotions. It's also incredibly literate and invariably classy, as you'd expect anything associated with something as big-time as Angels to be. As he did with the music for The Shawshank Redemption, Newman expertly plays these varying elements and moods off of one another without ever losing sight of the personal hope that seems to ultimately drive the characters. A lone violin fades in during "Quartet"; it's either mournful or insistent, depending on how tense you take the supporting piano chording to be. Whatever the emotions elicited by Newman's score, it's as audacious -- and successful -- as the film itself. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi Read Less

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