Breton Vivian returned to Deadline’s Sound and Screen Television after presenting the score for Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 . This time around, he conducted the score for another Sheridan drama, Paramount+’s The Madison . For the new series, which centers on the story of a widow, played by Michelle Pfeiffer , taking her family from New York to Montana, Vivian composed a much subtler score than his previous Sheridan Western. “She’s almost in this dream-like haze of grief,” Vivian said in front of the packed house at UCLA’s Royce Hall. “It’s Michelle Pfeiffer and she’s incredible. The last thing I need to do is be like it’s all about me — listen to my music. It was about being restrained.” Vivian composed the main theme first, then the theme for family patriarch Preston (Kurt Russell). He was hired after production wrapped and was able to watch the entire season. Watch on Deadline “For whatever reason, Preston’s character for me spoke a real homegrown folk tune,” he said.…