Performance

La La Land

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Justin Hurwitz’s film score for *La La Land* frames a modern musical about two artists in Los Angeles: a jazz pianist and an actress testing the limits of ambition and intimacy. The music folds classic Hollywood gestures into a Rock/Pop palette, using recurring themes to mark choices, detours, and the cost of “making it.” In New York, the film’s profile was cemented by high-visibility awards-season runs and repertory revivals, where its jazz references land differently in a city that lives with the form. At Radio City Music Hall, the score is presented in concert, shifting attention from plot to orchestration and rhythm.