“It was always a musical family,” said Thomas Newman, the son of film-music pioneer ... nominee was the studio music department, not the composer.) Alfred’s brother Lionel, meanwhile ...

He does get together with his family of composers -- Joey Newman, grandson of Lionel Newman, is the latest to join the family business -- but they rarely talk shop. “It’s hard to compare notes ...

That honor belongs to the Newman family, a family of composers that has been writing music for major Hollywood productions ...

They will be featured in a new work by the composer Sir James ... include readings from works by Newman and the poet John Donne, who was born into a Catholic family in the 16th century but became ...

the patriarch of the Newman family scoring dynasty, and Max Steiner, one of the great composers of Hollywood’s golden age. Other names most likely won’t ring a bell, but we listed some of ...

Randy Newman is an all-time great ... until he was 11 years old when his family moved back to Los Angeles. Newman had three ...

The fact that the programmers didn’t always go with a composer’s best-known ... are four successive films scored by family members — Randy Newman’s 1990 “Avalon,” David Newman ...