[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yes, that’s no doubt part of it. But as I said earlier, I like all types of Newman variations.

It’s strange to think that, with a few exceptions, I found him rather boring in my teenage years. I guess it was the impatience of youth shining through. Whereas now he’s in my top 10 film composers. All those gorgeous shimmering textures he’s so good at, whether it’s synths or orchestra, flew completely over my head at the time. I call it “The SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Effect” (a score that bored me to tears as a youngster, but whose intriciacies I only appreciate now, as a weathered, old man).