Angels in America

1	Angels in America, film score~Threshold of Revelation 0:55
2	Angels in America, film score~Angels in America (Main Title) 2:18
3	Angels in America, film score~Lesionnaire 0:39
4	Angels in America, film score~Ellis Island 2:06
5	Angels in America, film score~Acolyte of the Flux 1:15
6	Angels in America, film score~Umdankbar Kind 1:25
7	Angels in America, film score~The Ramble 1:07
8	Angels in America, film score~Ozone 0:57
9	Angels in America, film score~Pill Poppers 1:17
10	Angels in America, film score~Quartet 6:44
11	Solitude / Duke Ellington 3:12
12	Angels in America, film score~Bayeux Tapestry 1:49
13	Angels in America, film score~Spotty Monster 0:47
14	Angels in America, film score~Mauve Antarctica 4:47
15	Angels in America, film score~Her Fabulous Incipience 1:05
16	Angels in America, film score~The Infinite Descent 0:55
17	Just A Closer Walk With Thee / George Lewis 2:57
18	Angels in America, film score~Broom of Truth 2:50
19	Angels in America, film score~Submit! 1:15
20	Angels in America, film score~Plasma Orgasmata 2:58
21	Angels in America, film score~Delicate Particle Logic 1:37
22	Angels in America, film score~The Mormons 1:51
23	Angels in America, film score~Prophet Birds 2:42
24	Angels in America, film score~More Life 2:10
25	Angels in America, film score~Black Angel 4:10
26	Angels in America, film score~Garden of the Soul 4:05
27	Angels in America, film score~Heaven 2:02
28	Angels in America, film score~Bethesda Fountain 1:18
29	Angels in America, film score~The Great Work Begins (End Title) 3:57
30	Angels in America, film score~Tropopause 2:58
31	I'm His Child / Zella Jackson Price 3:36

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The soundtrack to HBO Films' presentation of Tony Kushner's Tony and Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Angels in America, features a score by noted composer Thomas Newman (American Beauty).

All Music Guide

Already associated with HBO for his award-winning Six Feet Under theme, the network tapped Thomas Newman to compose the music for Angels in America, its much-publicized, star-heavy adaptation of the Tony Kushner play. Totaling just over 70 minutes, the soundtrack weaves together pieces short and long, intimate and bold to help tell an elaborate story of AIDS in the '80s and angels in our world. It opens with "Threshold of Revelation," where snatches of vocal are drowned in the unsettling roar of a trumpet fanfare. Only a minute long, it nevertheless gets at what it might feel like -- amazing, scary, and beautiful all at once -- to be visited by an angel. Especially if you think it's just the pills talking, as one character in the film does. But as tense as "Threshold" and selections like the brooding "Ramble" or the bold, odd "Black Angel" are, Newman fills the film's main title with an irrepressible sense of hope. Its lilting melody is immediately addicting, its shimmering corners awash in sunlight. In fact, the entirety of Angels in America seems to shimmer, whether it's moving to the stirring strains of a choir ("The Infinite Descent") or getting a bit whimsical while suggesting the main theme's melody ("Pill Poppers"). Like the film itself, Newman's music finds ways to be not quite of this world, while at the same time grappling with very real issues and universal emotions. It's also incredibly literate and invariably classy, as you'd expect anything associated with something as big-time as Angels to be. As he did with the music for The Shawshank Redemption, Newman expertly plays these varying elements and moods off of one another without ever losing sight of the personal hope that seems to ultimately drive the characters. A lone violin fades in during "Quartet"; it's either mournful or insistent, depending on how tense you take the supporting piano chording to be. Whatever the emotions elicited by Newman's score, it's as audacious -- and successful -- as the film itself. Johnny Loftus