‘White Lotus’ Composer Won’t Return for Season Four

Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is checking out of The White Lotus. The Emmy-winning composer, who created the score and theme song for the first three seasons of the show, has confirmed he will not return for the fourth chapter.

Tapia de Veer told The New York Times that he has had creative disagreements with Mike White, the show’s creator and director, and the show’s producers since Season One. That includes the divisive credits theme from Season Three, which was supposed to be longer before it was cut by producer.

“It’s kind of weird right now because I announced to the team a few months ago that I was not coming back, that I was leaving,” Tapia de Veer told the Times. “I didn’t tell Mike for various reasons; I wanted to tell him just at the end for the shock and whatever. Except I told the whole editorial team and music editor and producer and all that, but I…