An incredibly prolific and versatile composer, James Newton Howard scored a dizzying array of popular and critically acclaimed films, beginning with “Pretty Woman” (1990), “The Prince of Tides” (1991), “The Fugitive” (1993) and “Wyatt Earp” (1994), through “The Sixth Sense” (1999) “Batman Begins” (2005), “King Kong” (2005) and “I am Legend” (2007). Howard – who first sat down at a piano at age two – went on to earn a degree in music and orchestration from the University of Southern California’s School of Music, and could have, theoretically, dove right into movie scoring – except for a midstream diversion as a remarkable pop musician in the 1970s, playing keyboards for Elton John, Cher and Toto, among others....