Angels In America - Thomas Newman - Soundtrack

Many film score fans have often wondered what would come out if Thomas Newman mixed his older orchestral styles of Little Women and Shawshank Redemption with his more funky experimental styles of American Beauty and Erin Brockwich. Well, the most affirmative answer would have to be Angels in America, written for the 2003 HBO TV adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning stage play, starring Al Pacino, Justin Kirk, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson among a large ensemble cast working under the direction of Mike Nichols about a group of gay people living under the threat of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s New York City. Newman's basic approach here takes a traditional ...  Read the complete review