Randy Newman's sweet, song-like music sings in 'Toy Story 4' and 'Marriage Story'

Randy Newman has had quite a storied year. He wrote a bittersweet score for “Toy Story 4,” an epilogue about growing old and moving on that puts a bow on the animated series he’s been a part of since 1995. And, after years of being ignored by directors of live-action dramas, this year he brought his nostalgic pathos to Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.

“It’s celebratory, it’s compassionate, it’s human,” said Baumbach. “It’s not romanticizing them, but it is, I think. The visuals that are accompanying it in the beginning are mostly images of domesticity, or coupledom, or individual characteristics that makes us unique. Ordinary moments. And I felt like the score could sort of celebrate it, make these ordinary moments extraordinary. Because they are, of course.

The score is a rush of cool water in a moviemaking era that rarely asks for things like lyricism, or oboe solos. The veteran composer, who has 20 Oscar nominations for elegiac and tuneful scores like “The Natural” and “Avalon” , hadn’t scored a nonanimated film since George Clooney’s “Leatherheads” in 2008. Baumbach changed that in 2017. A longtime fan of Newman’s song albums, he was delighted to commission a solo piano score from the composer for his film “The Meyerowitz Stories.”When Baumbach met Robert Redford a few years ago, he told the actor how much he loved Newman’s score for “The Natural.

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