If Beale Street Could Talk

If emotions could compose music… After his experimental score for Barry Jenkins’

Moonlight, Nicholas Britell takes a more classicist pitch for the director’s lyrical romance, evoking Bernard Herrmann via Carter Burwell. Deeply tender, achingly jazzy, Britell’s shivery swoons of horns and strings seem to rise like steam from rain-soaked streets: unhurried and elusive, but no less fully felt for it.