You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.

After just one second, you might be able to guess what this is.

It has introduced thousands of films.

And for millions of people, it means one thing.

It's movie time.

Yeah. It's movie time. It's so exciting because movies were such a part of our lives growing up.

That's David Newman, a Hollywood composer and conductor. David has written scores for movies

like Matilda, Ice Age, The Sandlot, Dr. Doolittle, jingle all the way, Bill and Ted's

excellent adventure, and tons more.

But David's not the only composer in his family.

Everyone in Hollywood knows the Newman name.

His cousin is Randy Newman, the composer behind the music of the Toy Story movies,

cars, James and the Giant Peach, and so many more.

David's brother Thomas composed the scores for finding Nemo, the Green Mile,

the Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall, and we haven't even gotten to Amel Newman, Lionel Newman, or

Maria Newman. Altogether, the Newman family has won 12 Oscars and been nominated for another 93,

more than twice as many as any other family.

My mom was the one that made us train.

We all played violin from like age 7 and piano,

and we had a lot of theory and counterpoint when we were 12 and 13.

So it just didn't seem all that abnormal, our family.

That's because their father was also a legendary film composer.

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