There are certain bars of music that put people in a specific headspace - and many of them come from our favorite films, where composer John Williams matched his iconic themes with magic movie moments.


Is John Williams the greatest film composer of all time?

It's hard to spot everything Hauschka deployed for this mostly improvised set, from pink putty to strings stuffed with tin foil. Listen to what the Oscar-winning composer can do with a prepared piano in his Tiny Desk Concert!


Hauschka performs a Tiny Desk Concert filled with prepared piano and improvisation

Composer Volker Bertelmann explains why he wanted to "destroy the film" with his score, how he used a centuries-old instrument for the cause and what it meant as a German to dive deep into this story.


How the score for 'All Quiet on the Western Front' made a familiar tale surprising

For Glass Onion, composer Nathan Johnson had to navigate and illuminate the film's conflicting range of emotions. He found endless possibilities within an orchestra. 


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