It's all songs considered from NPR music, I'm Robin Hilton.

If you haven't already seen it, the film Glass-Signian, a knives out mystery, is out on Netflix

now.

I saw it over the holidays.

And it's one of the best films I've watched in the past year.

It's suspenseful, it's full of lots of surprises, and the cast is incredible.

One of the things that I love most about it is the score.

It's by composer Nathan Johnson, and this is a bit of the film's main theme.

The score is grand and soaring and really beautiful at times, and it's got to navigate a lot

of emotions.

The film is intense and dramatic, but it's also really funny.

It's got a lot of thrills, but also sadness and loss, and often all of these things collide

at the same time.

I recently sat down with Nathan Johnson to talk about how his score helps reveal these

many layers of the film.

He says that when they started out, he and director Ryan Johnson knew that they wanted

a very classic vintage sound.

I think the first thing we were talking about was really leaning into the fun sort of

exotic, lush, almost European landscape of the movies that we love growing up.

We were referencing Nino Rota's score for Death on the Nile.

The first knives out was very much a contained manor house mystery.

I think it was really important for Ryan that we plant some very obvious flags in the

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