Saturday 2:15-3:45pm in Auditorium 5.

Director: Matt Schrader.

Q&A with Chattanooga Symphony Principal Pops Conductor Bob Bernhardt.

What makes a score unforgettable? SCORE: A Film Music Documentary, will tell you. The film shows how painstaking the process of writing any score, let alone a memorable one, can be, and features interviews with many of the world’s finest film score composers, including John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones), Danny Elman (Batman, Spider-Man) and Hans Zimmer (Driving Miss Daisy, Rain Man, Pirates of the Caribbean).

As you’re reading this, chances are good a snippet of your favorite film score of all time is running through your brain. It’s there for a couple of reasons.

You obviously love the film it came from. But here’s another reason: That score was a work of art, music so compelling and beautiful it instantly resonates and implants itself, even as it helps the film tell its story.

SCORE: A Film Music Documentary shows how painstaking the process of writing any score, let alone a memorable one, can be, and features interviews with many of the world’s finest film score composers, including John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws), Danny Elman (Batman) and Hans Zimmer (Driving Miss Daisy).

Great film score composers from today owe a debt to those who came before them, and several receive their just accolades here: Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire), Bernard Herrmann (Psycho) and Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).

“Film music,” says SCORE director Matt Schrader, “speaks to us in a language we can understand, but few of us can speak.”

A person who can speak that language, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Principal Pops conductor Bob Bernhardt, will introduce the film.