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Carlos Rafael Rivera Experimented With ‘Lessons In Chemistry’s Musical Themes, And A Melody For Brie Larson’s Unique Character That “Like A River, Meanders” – Sound & Screen TV
Lessons in Chemistry is the story of biogeneticist cooking show host Elizabeth Zott, a character explored musically by composer Carlos Rafael Rivera.
Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera said he had to answer the question “what would a biogeneticist sound like?” when pilot director Sarah Adina Smith asked him to write the series’ music. “She started recommending playlists of bands like Boards of Canada, really out-there music,” Rivera said in an interview for Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television live-music event. Because it was such an iconic scene Rivera worried he would screw it up, but he ended up drawing on his theme for her love interest, Calvin (Lewis Pullman).
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