Last night at UCLA’s Royce Hall, nearly 1,000 lucky attendees got to hear the music that defined the cinematic event of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Following warm introductions from Cillian Murphy and Nolan, Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson and his partner in life and music, Serena Göransson, produced a live-to-film experience of their Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-shortlisted score for the $955 million-grossing historical epic. The duo were joined by conductor Anthony Parnther, who led the evening’s 55-piece orchestra, featuring many of the same musicians he also conducted during the score’s original studio sessions.

Together with Universal Studios, Syncopy and the event-related services of Black Ink, Fine Line and Encompass, the Göranssons dedicated the entirety of the past two months to Oppenheimer: Live in Concert. They painstakingly rearranged their two-hour and 43-minute score, so that it could be played live in continuous fashion, with the exception of a musician-friendly intermission at the film’s two-hour mark.