Choose artist...
Home   >   Projects   >   THE HUNGER GAMES -THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES
James Newton Howard

THE HUNGER GAMES -THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES

Sony Masterworks
Release Date: November 17, 2023

Press Release

Read press

Artist Details

Read bio

Website

Visit
Trailer
1 The Dark Days  
2 Anthem: Gem of Panem (Instrumental)  
3 Coryo in the Capitl  
4 Assigning the Mentors  
5 Meet the Mentor  
6 Gamemaker  
7 Sejanus  
8 Hunger is a Weapon  
9 Strategy  
10 Department of War  
11 The Arena  
12 Saving Snow  
13 Ideas Firing  
14 Happy Hunger Games  
15 Mercy  
16 Seize the Opportunity  
17 Cut The Feed  
18 Open The Gate  
19 Powerful  
20 Afraid of Water  
21 Drone Attack  
22 Inside the Duct  
23 Under the Flag  
24 Planting the Cloth  
25 Rainbow of Destruction  
26 Get Her Out  
27 The Sound Of Snow  
28 Your Life Has Just Begun  
29 You Are Safe  
30 Trust Is Everything  
31 I Can’t Stay Here  
32 Cabin in the Rain  
33 Lucy?  
34 The Woods  
35 Change of Plan  
36 Passed the Tests  
37 Snow Lands on Top  
38 I. Friendship* – performed by Yuja Wang  
39 II. Rue’s Farewell* – performed by Yuja Wang  
40 III. Victor* – performed by Yuja Wang  
Show all tracks
Hide

Sony Music Masterworks today releases THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE) by award-winning composer JAMES NEWTON HOWARD. Available everywhere now, the album features original score music written by Howard for the new prequel to the massively popular dystopian film franchise. Howard makes his return to the world of Panem after scoring the franchise’s original four films, part of the composer’s longstanding creative relationship with director Francis Lawrence. Featured throughout the album’s 40 tracks is global superstar pianist YUJA WANG, infusing the score with her extraordinary musicality and lyricism. The soundtrack is also set to be released in vinyl format, arriving on colored discs enclosed in a 2-LP gatefold set alongside liner notes and stills from the film – preorder now. Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is now in theaters – watch the trailer. 

The prequel takes place 64 years before the events of the first film. In composing the score for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Howard embraced the opportunity to compose a fully orchestral score with a minimal amount of electronics. “The challenge for composing scores for movies is always about storytelling and connecting with the unique tone of the movie,” Howard says of the process. Utilizing baroque instruments like the viola de gamba and cello d’amore was effective in evoking a more rural, folk feel to the score, both a nod to the prequel’s earlier time period and also a stylistic extension of the original songs performed throughout by lead Rachel Zegler. 

  • M. Night Shyamalan & James Newton Howard set for Philadelphia's Marian Anderson Hall / 93.3WMMR
    Posted At: September 24, 2024
    93.3WMMR - Marisa Magnatta writes…..Long time friend of the Preston & Steve show; famed director M. Night Shyamalan stopped by the studio this morning via zoom. Shyamalan of Sixth Sense fame was joined by long-time partner, composer; James Newton Howard. Newton Howard and Shyamalan have teamed up on numerous projects adapted to the silver screen and the duo gave the MMR crew a peek behind the curtain on...

  • James Newton Howard chats about M. Night Shyamalan movies and 'Night After Night' with yourClassical - New Classical Tracks
    Posted At: November 3, 2023
    Night After Night: Music from the Movies of M. Night Shyamalan celebrates one of the richest collaborations between a contemporary film director and a composer – an all-new recording of music for M. Night Shyamalan’s most acclaimed films by the Emmy®- and Grammy®-winning composer and nine-time Oscar® nominee James Newton Howard. The Sony Classical album was released on October 20, 2023.Included on Night Aft...

  • Sony Masterworks announces the release of James Newton Howard's 'All the Light We Cannot See' / Soundtrack.net
    Posted At: November 2, 2023
    Sony Music Masterworks today releases All the Light We Cannot See (Soundtrack from the Netflix Limited Series) by Emmy Award-winning and nine-time Oscar-nominated composer James Newton Howard. Available everywhere now, the album features music written by Howard for Netflix's new limited series, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a young girl who is blind in World War II-occupied France...

  • The new Netflix series: 'All the Light We Cannot See' is home to a moody James Newton Howard soundtrack / RadioTimes
    Posted At: November 2, 2023
    Radio Times - Morgan Cormack writes…..The latest addition to Netflix's ever-growing slate of original content is All the Light We Cannot See, a new adaptation of the Anthony Doerr novel that's being directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things). The new four-part series follows the story of Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind French girl, and her father, Daniel LeBlanc (Mark Ruffalo), who flee German-occupie...

  • James Newton Howard spills his creative guts on WHYY: Studio 2
    Posted At: October 31, 2023
    JAMES NEWTON HOWARD is one of the film industry’s most versatile and honored composers, with a career spanning over thirty years and encompassing more than 140 film and television projects. He is an 9-time Oscar nominee, and Emmy and Grammy winner. Howard has also been honored with ASCAP’s prestigious Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement and the BMI ICON Award.As a record producer, arranger, and son...

  • 'StageandCinema' recommends James Newton Howard's 'Night After Night, Music from the Movies of M. Night Shyamalan'
    Posted At: October 20, 2023
    Stage and Cinema's CONNOR MCCORMICK writes….. Night After Night: Music from the Movies of M. Night Shyamalan celebrates one of the richest collaborations between a contemporary film director and a composer – an all-new recording of music for M. Night Shyamalan’s most acclaimed films by the Emmy®- and Grammy®-winning composer and nine-time Oscar® nominee James Newton Howard.Included are highlights from Howar...

  • James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan's best-known films are now an album / The Washington Post
    Posted At: October 19, 2023
    James Newton Howard reconceives ‘The Sixth Sense’ and seven other scores as concert suites in ‘Night After Night’The Washington Post's Tim Greiving writes…..James Newton Howard was 10 when his father died in a car accident. It happened just before Christmas. As a boy, empty streets and sunsets would make him sad because, the composer guesses, they provoked the feeling of loss.“I think there is a lot of sadn...

  • Everything SCREENRANT knows about 'All The Light We Cannot See'
    Posted At: June 21, 2023
    Netflix has adapted the NYT Best-Selling novel All the Light We Cannot See into a limited series directed by Shawn Levy and here's everything to know.SCREENRANT's SHAWN S. LEALOS AND ZACHARY MOSER write…The Netflix adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See, based Anthony Doerr's novel, is being given the treatment it deserves with a stellar cast that includes Mark Ruffalo — and the WW2 thriller is arriving ...

  • How M. Night Shyamalan changed the way James Newton Howard writes music / COLLIDER
    Posted At: February 23, 2021
    The composer also reveals he originally wrote a completely different score for 'The Village'.COLLIDER's ADAM CHITWOOD writes…..James Newton Howard was already a five-time Oscar-nominated composer by the time a young up-and-coming filmmaker by the name of M. Night Shyamalan asked him to score his new thriller called The Sixth Sense, but the collaboration would end up changing how Howard approached writing fi...
Go to artist details