“‘La La Land’ was two-and-a-half years of nonstop ... Before even considering any of the movie’s songs, Hurwitz tackled the main theme and then moved on to the subsequent themes for ...

Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” was a passion project that was ... composer Justin Hurwitz and Chazelle had decided on the main theme, the duet (later known as “A Lovely Night,” but ...

It was so useful to begin the process with the main theme so thoroughly realised - both compositionally and orchestrationally. La La Land marked Justin’s first time out at anything like this ...

Even before “La La Land” unspooled at festivals and in theaters, people were humming the tune “City of Stars” thanks to early teasers. The melancholy theme appears twice in the film ...

“La La Land” composer Justin Hurwitz ... of piano demos. “For each theme or melody, I go down a lot of roads, and go through many different demos,” he told the NewsHour, often sitting ...

“La La Land,” in theory, is a movie that needs no ... One is that it has the single most haunting theme song in the history of motion pictures (and I really mean that). The opening sequence ...

It’s a bittersweet tune he’s playing that becomes a recurring theme throughout the film ... you could hear the score or music from La La Land and say, ‘Oh, that sounds like La La Land ...

La La Land is the agreed-upon frontrunner for a truckload ... “We wanted Emma’s character to be hearing this theme in her head as she’s acting the scene, so I was scoring it in real time.

"La La Land" netted a record 14 Oscar nominations ... Hurwitz had the challenge of reorchestrating the music, using the film's classic theme and Gosling and Stone's modern voices.