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How does film music work and who is behind it the documentary score answers some of these questions it offers a behind the scenes look for example at recordings for the james bond film casino royale scored does reveal a few tricks but still leaves the sense of magic intact. most directors dont know how to convert emotions into musical. or into music so the composer has to interact almost like a therapist and go through all this mishmash of what the director is saying get the essence of it. and p...

Hans zimmer has created music for more than one hundred fifty movies including the pirates of the caribbean series hes known for integrating electronic sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements the report excels roughly the fame where somebody comes into the room and i got this idea it will be fun to do your flattered but even considering you me when you have a moment of reflection you go i have no idea how to do or. how does film music work and whos behind it the documentary score answers...

Cognition lot of i dont want to keep doing the same thing that i have to jump from an action film to a comedy or to something small or quietness for that gives me the ideas the different stories and the different approaches to them the order of three to be finished off or does the order of treatment by. the composer begins by creating a kind of symphony his version of the story sometimes its music that just serves the pictures well but now and then something miraculous happens. all of a sudden y...

The video going viral. grammy-nominated singer vanessa carlton noticing, tweeting, "this story is so important, id like to get him a replacement piano if this one doesnt make it." nearly four months later, just as the hardings are finishing rebuilding their home, the final touch, that new piano, delivered this week. >> its been hard to just kind of stay mentally hopeful through the whole thing. >> reporter: his son already practicing. >> the message is that theres hope past the moment youre in. ...

Jump from an action film to a comedy or to something small quietness for that gives me the ideas the different stories and the different approaches to them to be singed off or disorder really bites that or. the composer begins by creating a kind of symphony his version of the story sometimes its music that just serves the pictures well but now and then something miraculous happens. all of a sudden you have a hundred people all pulling in the same emotional direction and then it happens theres so...

Finally tonight, hell be known formally as sir richard starky. thats his real name. the sir refers to the fact that the man we all know as ringo will finally become a knight. the announcement came late today. matt bradley has the story from london. ♪ it dont come easy >> reporter: the fourth member of the fab four -- ♪ it dont come easy >> reporter: -- recognition didnt come easy. ringo starr, the beatles drummer, joins other famous british artists being honored by the queen. a public accola...

Finally tonight, from stage and screen stars to changemakers who helped shape history, we remember the lives lost in 2017. ♪ ♪ go johnny go ♪ i found my thrill ♪ on blueberry hill

Its this thing thats going on in my brain. sw about i play something else? >> reporter: three years ago, steve was diagnosed with alzheimers disease. he had to give up his job a software designer, but as we first reported a few months ago, his wife, joni, says the aruelest part is the toll it has taken on the music he composed. >> losing the songs would be like losing him. >> reporter: steve and joni have been married 47 years, and along the way, steve composed more than two dozen songs, mostly ...

>> i said, "if he can at least play through it, even in pieces, i can learn it." ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and so, for the past two years, naomi laviolette its been reconstructing his compositions note by note. >> no, just on the one -- >> the downbeat. >> the one downbeat, yes. >> we are rolling. >> reporter: and, of course, theyre recording the songs. never to be lost again. >> i realized there was a part of him that wasnt going to fade away. >> reporter: but this may be the west part: with naomis ...

>> glor: we may have the perfect christmas story to end this week. its about a musical gift lost and then found. heres steve hartman "on the road." >> reporter: to welcome us to portland, oregon, 68-year-old steve goodwin would like to play one of his songs for you. >> aarrgh! >> reporter: you have no idea how much he would like to play one of his songs for you. >> what key is it in? it made me almost hate the piano. but then i realized its not the faanos fault. i know how to do this.