New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Lakeshore Records and FIFTH SEASON are set to release Lady In The Lake—Apple TV + Original Series
Soundtrack featuring music by Marcus Norris (Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul), digitally, July 19. Norris's striking score defies categorization and crosses genres utilizing orchestra, strings and piano to create a dynamic backdrop to the noir thriller. Created by Alma Har'el and starring
Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram, The Lady In The Lake premieres today on Apple TV+.
When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underbelly of
Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo's mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger. From visionary director Alma Har'el, "Lady in the Lake" emerges as a feverish noir thriller and an unexpected tale of the price women pay for their dreams.
Says Norris: "From the beginning, Alma tasked me to compose an 'iconic' and distinct score for Lady in the Lake. She wanted a soundtrack that didn't sound like anything else on television, and in pursuit of that she gave me the green light to take big swings. The music became a character.
We knew early on that we didn't want music that fit neatly into the boxes of classical, klezmer, jazz, mystery, soul, or any other established genres. Instead, we decided to deconstruct those sounds to varying degrees, sometimes beyond recognition, to then combine and rebuild them into something new tailored to our story. Within that specificity, I believe we've found a universality, and I hope people are as moved by this music as we have been."
Track List:
01. Lady in the Lake (Main Theme)
02. Finding a Body in the Fountain
03. Last Time on Lady in the Lake
04. Possible Circumstances
05. The Experiments
06. Cleo TV Interview
07. Slow Dance
08. Cleo
Dream (Underwater Trumpet)
09. Lake Painting / Finding Tessie
10. Bull Pen Hustle
11. Seth Waits in Car
12.
Police Chase on Foot
13. Bosko Watches Ferdie
14. Pharoah
Jazzy Bass
15. Fight for Justice
16. I Don't Want Your Love, Mvmt II - Marcus Norris
17. Cleo Sets Sail
18. She's Gone
19. Attacked
20. Visit Beauty Box
21. My
Idols Are Dead - Marcus Norris
22. Prophet Ritual
23. Chasing Reggie
24. Piano End Titles
25. Bass End Titles
26.
Strings End Titles
27. Marcus End Titles
28. Whistle End Titles
29. Tutti End Titles
Dr. Marcus Norris burst onto the scene with his score to the feature film Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. starring
Regina Hall & Sterling K. Brown, written and directed by Adamma Ebo, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters by Focus Features.
Marcus has recently completed the score for Apple's highly anticipated drama mini-series Lady in the Lake starring
Natalie Portman and directed by Alma Har'el.
His other recent scores include Once Again (for the very first time), the next feature film from director Boaz Yakin, the drama feature Summer of Violence, and the feature
Black Terror which premiered at Pavillon Afriques at the Cannes Film Festival.
His first foray into making music came in the form of producing rap beats on pirated software, installed on a Windows 98 computer that he Macgyvered together from spare parts while lying on the floor of his childhood bedroom. Though he came to composing concert music later, he transferred that same imagination and ingenuity to writing music of all kinds. This cross-genre mastery resulted in Beyoncé asking Marcus to orchestrate several songs for her and 50-piece orchestra as part of her surprise 2023 Dubai return to live performance. Miss Tina Knowles-Lawson also chose Marcus as
Music Director for the 2022 Wearable Art Gala, with Marcus and South Side Symphony performing as the on-stage orchestra accompanying
Chloe & Halle Bailey, Andra Day, and more.
Marcus founded South Side Symphony in 2020, which he describes as "like if
Quincy Jones grew up on 90s R&B and Rap." The ensemble recorded their first live album in 2023 through a weekend of three sold-out shows in North Hollywood.
He has made a number of achievements in concert music, including earning a commission from the Atlanta Opera as prize for winning their inaugural 96-hour Opera Project, making his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut in 2022 with his piece "MERCY" as part of the LA Phil's
National Composers Intensive, orchestrating the world premiere of Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of "The Factotum" by Will Liverman and DJ King Rico, collaborating on Adrian Dunn's "Emancipation", and being awarded the prestigious Cota-Robles fellowship to earn his PhD in
Music Composition at UCLA. His violin concerto "GLORY" opened to three sold-out performances when premiered by the Jackson Symphony Orchestra in 2019, and then was subsequently performed in Guangzhou, China later that year. His Dance Suite "I Tried So Hard for You" premiered in
Havana in 2018, closely following the Russian String Orchestra premiere of "My
Idols Are Dead" in Moscow.
FIFTH SEASON is a global leader in the creation, production, financing, and distribution of best-in-class films, series, and documentaries. Combining all the resources of a major studio with unique flexibility, a talent-driven approach, and an integrated ecosystem of internal teams and partner companies, the creative powerhouse executes custom strategies to maximize the value of its owned and third-party projects. FIFTH SEASON's varied film slate includes hit ensemble comedies 80 for Brady and the Book Club franchise, multiple Academy Award® nominee The Lost Daughter, award-winning musical In the Heights,
William Oldroyd's Eileen, and Michael Bay's Ambulance. The studio has produced such star-driven series as 14 Emmy® nominee Severance, Tokyo Vice, Scenes from a Marriage, Life & Beth, Nine Perfect Strangers, and the upcoming Lady in the Lake and Chief of War, while also financing and internationally distributing a library including Killing Eve, The Morning Show, Pachinko, The Night Manager, and Normal People. In documentary, FIFTH SEASON is behind Emmy nominees McCartney 3,2,1, Being Mary Tyler Moore, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, and more.
