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Composed by Oliver Nelson
Best known as a saxophonist and arranger, Oliver Nelson's compositions (his piece "Stolen Moments" is a jazz standard) show the most democratic of influences, from Duke Ellington and John Coltrane to Béla Bartók and Claude Debussy. Nowhere is the Bartók influence more pronounced than in Nelson's eerie score for "The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes," where his misterioso main theme, a mournful threnody for the last hours of life on Earth, is strongly reminiscent of Bartók's "night music" movements.
These cues were reused in many episodes, most prominently in "The Different Ones," "Last Rites for a Dead Druid," "I'll Never Leave You—Ever," and in Serling's introductions to "A Fear of Spiders," "Marmalade Wine," "The Phantom Farmhouse" and "A Question of Fear."
