Score: The Podcast S4 E10, James Newton Howard says be great at making a demo

Kenny and Robert begin the show discussing recent scores they ve been checking out including Jordan Peele s take on Candyman by composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and The White Lotus by composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer. Subscribe to MORE SCORE on Patreon for yearround interviews, film music talk and even cool merch: Then, 9x Oscarnominated composer and friend of the show James Newton Howard (News of the World, Jungle Cruise, Raya and the Last Dragon, Fantastic Beasts series, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, King Kong, The Hunger Games series, The Sixth Sense, Signs) joins the show sharing why he dropped out of USC after three months on a music scholarship, revealing a question he once asked that immediately got him fired from an early film scoring gig, discussing how he connected with Metallica to collaborate for Jungle Cruise and why that may not be the last time they work together, and defining the most important skill a film composer s