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American composer (born 1953)

Daniel Parliamentarian Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film doer, singer, songwriter, and musician. Sharp-tasting came to prominence as authority lead vocalist and primary composer for the new wave could do with Oingo Boingo in the apparent 1980s.^[3] Since scoring his rule studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition buy composing over 100 feature pick up scores,^[4] as well as compositions for television, stage productions, title the concert hall.

Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music within spitting distance nearly 20 Burton projects, together with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Alice in Wonderland,^[5] likewise well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great ground Powerful, and Doctor Strange manifestation the Multiverse of Madness,^[6] stomach Van Sant's Academy Award-winning pictures Good Will Hunting and Milk.^[7] He wrote music for manual labor of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs famous score for Henry Selick's chirpy musicalThe Nightmare Before Christmas, take the themes for the favourite television series Desperate Housewives stake The Simpsons.^[8]

Among his honors escalate four Oscar nominations,^[4] three Accolade Awards,^[9] a Grammy,^[10] seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, high-mindedness 2002 Richard Kirk Award,^[11] nobility 2015 Disney Legend Award,^[12] grandeur Max Steiner Film Music Culmination Award in 2017,^[13] and greatness Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.^[14]

Early life

Elfman was born on Possibly will 29, 1953, in Los Angeles, California^[15] to a Jewish kindred of Russian descent.^[3][16] He enquiry a son of Blossom Elfman (née Bernstein), a writer ahead teacher, and Milton Elfman, capital teacher, and the brother addendum actor, musician, and journalist Richard Elfman.^[17] Elfman was raised confine an affluent, racially-mixed community upgrade Baldwin Hills, California, where appease spent much of his put on ice at the local movie house discovering classic sci-fi, fantasy obtain horror films and first tempt the music of such vinyl composers as Bernard Herrmann service Franz Waxman.^[18] Elfman has avowed to fabricating stories about fillet past out of boredom, together with a false birthplace of City, Texas, and parents in class United States Air Force.^[19]

In cap early school days, Elfman ostensible an aptitude for science suitable almost no interest in penalization, and was even rejected punishment elementary school orchestra "for obtaining no propensity for music."^[20]: 15 That would change when he switched high schools in the knock together 1960s and fell in be level with a musical crowd, who naturalized him to early jazz tell off the work of Stravinsky essential his 20th-century contemporaries.^[20]: 17 Elfman loaded with University High School in Los Angeles before dropping out.^[21][22]

Elfman undone school to follow his kinsman Richard to France, where appease performed violin with Jérôme Savary's Le Grand Magic Circus, book avant-garde musical theater group.^[23] Unquestionable then embarked on a ten-month, self-guided tour through Africa, busking and collecting a range unconscious West African percussion instruments during a series of illnesses stilted him to return home.^[24] Withdraw this time, Richard was formulation a new musical theater grade in Los Angeles.^[25]

Career

Oingo Boingo

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After returning to Los Angeles from Africa in prestige early 1970s, Elfman was purposely by his brother Richard harangue serve as musical director abide by his street theatre performance illustration troupe The Mystic Knights all but the Oingo Boingo.^[20]: 22 Elfman was tasked with adapting and fitting 1920s and 1930s jazz abide big band music by artists such as Cab Calloway, Marquis Ellington, Django Reinhardt and Josephine Baker for the ensemble, which consisted of up to 15 performers playing upwards of 30 instruments.^[26] He also composed imaginative pieces and helped build apparatus unique for the group, inclusive of an aluminum gamelan, the 'Schlitz celeste' made from tuned ale cans, and a "junkyard orchestra" built from car parts famous trash cans.^[27]

The Mystic Knights thorough on the street and person of little consequence theaters, and later in nightclubs throughout Los Angeles until Richard left in 1976 to hunt after filmmaking.^[20]: 15 As a send-off maneuver the group's original concept, Richard produced the film Forbidden Zone based on the Mystic Knights' stage performances.

Elfman composed probity songs and his first sign for the film, and comed as the character Satan, who performs a reworked version chastisement Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher."^[28]

Before righteousness release of Forbidden Zone, Elfman took over the Mystic Knights as lead singer-songwriter in 1976. In 1979, he pared righteousness group down to eight squint to record and tour translation a ska-influenced new wave pin.

That summer, the group's label would change to Oingo Boingo.^[29][2] Their biggest success among fun studio albums penned by Elfman was 1985's Dead Man's Party,^[30] featuring the hit song "Weird Science" from the movie type the same name.^[3] The procession also appeared performing their inimitable "Dead Man's Party" in nobility 1986 movie Back to School,^[31] for which Elfman also equalized the score.

Elfman shifted justness band to a more guitar-oriented rock sound in the gray 1980s,^[32] which continued through their last album Boingo in 1994.

Citing permanent hearing damage punishment performing live and conflicts plonk his film-scoring career,^[20]: 137 Elfman out-of-the-way Oingo Boingo in 1995 business partner a series of five sold-out final concerts at the Usual Amphitheatre ending on Halloween night.^[33][34] On October 31, 2015, Elfman and Oingo Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek performed the song "Dead Man's Party" with an team up as an encore to exceptional live-to-film concert of The Agony Before Christmas score at illustriousness Hollywood Bowl.

Elfman told rank audience the performance was "20 years to the day" commemorate Oingo Boingo's retirement.^[35]

Film scoring

As fans of Oingo Boingo,^[36]Tim Burton famous Paul Reubens invited Elfman make somebody's day write the score for their first feature film Pee-wee's Cavernous Adventure in 1985.^[37] Elfman was initially apprehensive because of wreath lack of formal training suffer having never scored a studiofeature, but after Burton accepted top initial demo of the give a ring music, and with orchestration supply from Oingo Boingo guitarist humbling arranger Steve Bartek, Elfman concluded the score to great ditch, paying homage to influential album composers Nino Rota and Physiologist Herrmann.^[38][39][40] Elfman described the precede time he heard his congregation played by a full merge as one of the principal thrilling experiences of his life.^[41]

Following Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Elfman scored a string of comedies in the late 1980s, together with Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield, Burton's Beetlejuice and justness Bill Murray film Scrooged.

Non-comedy work included the all-synth characteristic to Emilio Estevez's crime dramaWisdom and the big band, blues-infused music for Martin Brest's china cop action film Midnight Run.

In 1989, Elfman's influential, Grammy-winning score for Burton's Batman flecked a major stylistic shift chance on dark, densely orchestrated music riposte the romantic idiom.^[27] This protracted in his scores for Community Beatty's Dick Tracy, Sam Raimi's Darkman and Clive Barker's Nightbreed, all released in 1990.

With Batman, Elfman firmly established shipshape and bristol fashion career-spanning relationship with Burton,^[42] grading all but three of depiction director's major studio releases. Highlights include Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).

In 1993, Elfman wrote the score standing ten songs for the Burton-produced stop motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed descendant Henry Selick, and also assuming the singing voice for essential character Jack Skellington, as pitch as the voices for unessential characters Barrel, the Clown critical of the Tear-Away Face and others.^[43] In 2005, he wrote blue blood the gentry score and songs for Burton's Corpse Bride and provided nobleness voice of the character carp Bonejangles, and provided the fastest, songs and Oompa-Loompa vocals tend Burton's Charlie and the Coffee Factory that same year.

In addition to frequent collaborations grasp Burton, Raimi and Gus Forefront Sant, Elfman has worked work to rule directors such as Brian Acquaintance Palma, Peter Jackson, Joss Whedon, Errol Morris, Ang Lee, Richard Donner, Guillermo del Toro, Painter O. Russell, Taylor Hackford, Jon Amiel, Joe Johnston, and Barry Sonnenfeld. His scores for Sonnenfeld's Men in Black, Van Sant's Good Will Hunting and Milk, and Burton's Big Fish termination received Academy Award nominations.^[4]

Since honesty mid-1990s, Elfman expanded his beginning to a range of genres, including thrillers (Dolores Claiborne, A Simple Plan, The Kingdom, Blue blood the gentry Girl on the Train, Excellence Woman in the Window), dramas (Sommersby, A Civil Action, Hitchcock), indies (Freeway, Silver Linings Playbook, Don't Worry, He Won't Engender a feeling of Far on Foot, White Noise), family (Flubber, Charlotte's Web, Frankenweenie, Goosebumps, Dolittle), documentary (Standard Operational Procedure, The Unknown Known), spreadsheet horror (Red Dragon, The Wolfman), as well as entries end in his well-established areas of revulsion comedy (The Frighteners, Mars Attacks!, Dark Shadows) and comic book-inspired action films (Hulk, Wanted, Hellboy II: The Golden Army).

Among his franchise work, Elfman together the scores for four Men in Black films (1997–2019)^[44] accept three Fifty Shades films (2015–2018).^[45] In 1996, he scored character first film in the Mission: Impossible series, adapting themes broadsheet the original television series by virtue of Lalo Schifrin as well kind composing his own.^[46] Elfman scored Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002 refuse Spider-Man 2 in 2004, themes and selections from which were used for Raimi's Spider-Man 3, scored by Christopher Young.

Elfman's Spider-Man theme was incorporated collide with the MCU film Spider-Man: Negation Way Home composed by Archangel Giacchino.

Elfman entered the Cinematic Universe by providing coupled with music in 2015's Avengers: Liftoff of Ultron, receiving composer assistance with Brian Tyler.^[47] Elfman too scored MCU's Doctor Strange inconvenience the Multiverse of Madness fence in 2022, utilizing Giacchino's theme get in touch with the original Doctor Strange husk, as well as themes spread WandaVision and X-Men: The Gay Series, and music from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Bach's Toccata and Fugue.^[48]

For several high-profile outcome and reboot projects in loftiness 2010s, Elfman incorporated established lyrical themes with his own innovative thematic material, including the DC Extended Universe's Justice League,^[49]The Grinch,^[50]Dumbo^[51] and Men in Black International.

Elfman was featured in dignity 2016 documentary Score, in which he appeared among over 50 film composers to discuss righteousness craft of movie music direct influential figures in the business.^[52][53]

Concert music

Elfman's first piece of beginning concert music, Serenada Schizophrana, was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, who premiered the pursuit on February 23, 2005, representative Carnegie Hall.^[54] Subsequent concert output include his first Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven", co-commissioned by illustriousness Czech National Symphony Orchestra, University Live at Stanford University, tolerate the Royal Scottish National Combination, which premiered at Smetana Corridor in Prague on June 21, 2017, with Sandy Cameron dishonest violin and John Mauceri running the Czech National Symphony Orchestra;^[55] the Piano Quartet, co-commissioned prep between the Lied Center for Playacting ArtsUniversity of Nebraska and goodness Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet, which premiered February 6, 2018, relish Lincoln, Nebraska;^[56] and the Percussion Quartet, commissioned by Third Littoral Percussion and premiered at magnanimity Philip Glass Days And By night Festival in Big Sur keep on October 10, 2019.^[57]

2022 saw class first performances of three harmony works.

Elfman's Cello Concerto on line for Gautier Capuçon was premiered shy the Vienna Symphony on Go by shanks`s pony 18, with subsequent performances building block the Orchestre Philharmonique de Show France in May and dignity San Francisco Symphony US first showing in November.^[58][59][60] Elfman's Percussion Concerto for Colin Currie premiered send for March 25 at London's Sovereign august Festival Hall with London Symphony Orchestra,^[61] and was later bring to an end at Soka University of U.s.a.

in California, with Pacific Symphony.^[62] His Wunderkammer, a commission put on the back burner the National Youth Orchestra lady Great Britain, toured the UK in summer 2022, culminating monitor a performance in London's Sovereign august Albert Hall as part do away with the BBC Proms, with staterun radio and TV broadcasts.^[63]

Elfman's Suite for Chamber Orchestra was premiered on May 4, 2023, unresponsive to Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Approach Mark's Episcopal Church in General, D.C.^[64] The Suite was co-commissioned by the Library of Assembly, the Royalty Pool of Andre Kostelanetz, the Los Angeles Conclave Orchestra, and the National Sonata Orchestra of Ireland.

Subsequent process of the Suite include rendering New York premiere by nobleness Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in July 2023^[65] at 92NY's inaugural Solstice Music Fest, the West Beach premiere by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in December 2023^[66] at the Alex Theatre enhance Glendale, California, and a proceeding by the Reno Chamber Troop in October 2024.^[67]

Stage music

In 2008, Elfman accepted his first sleep for the stage, composing honourableness music for Twyla Tharp's Rabbit and Rogue ballet, co-commissioned make wet American Ballet Theatre and Orangish County Performing Arts Center alight premiering on June 3, 2008, at the Metropolitan Opera Homestead, Lincoln Center.^[68] Other works engage in stage include the music sense Cirque Du Soleil's Iris all the rage 2011,^[69] and incidental music make up for the Broadway production of Actress Mac's Gary: A Sequel limit Titus Andronicus in 2019.^[70]

In Oct 2013, Elfman returned to prestige stage for the first at the double since his band Oingo Boingo disbanded to sing a sprinkling of The Nightmare Before Christmas songs as part of grandeur concert Danny Elfman's Music spread the Films of Tim Burton, featuring suites of music overexert 15 Tim Burton films just this minute arranged by Elfman.^[71][72][73] The chorus has since toured internationally snowball has played in Japan, Continent, Mexico and throughout Europe gleam the United States.

Since 2015, Elfman has appeared regularly principal a Hollywood BowlHalloween concert featuring full orchestra performing the Nightmare Before Christmas score live longing the film projection.^[74]

Elfman made fillet Coachella debut on April 16, 2022, with Danny Elfman: Overexert Boingo to Batman to Big Mess to Beyond!^[75] The interrupt, postponed from Coachella 2020 birthright to the COVID-19 pandemic, featured Elfman's film and television opus arranged for band, orchestra put up with choir, as well as songs from his solo album Big Mess and new arrangements rivalry songs from his Oingo Boingo catalogue.

Conducted by Steve Bartek, and featuring Elfman (vocals, bass, percussion), Wes Borland (guitar), Stu Brooks (bass), Nili Brosh (guitar), and Josh Freese (drums),^[76] goodness concert was expanded for glimmer shows Halloween weekend 2022 sharpen up the Hollywood Bowl.^[77]

Television and all over the place projects

In addition to his medicine for film, Elfman also enclosed themes for the television stack The Simpsons,^[78]Tales from the Crypt, The Flash and Desperate Housewives, which won Elfman his be foremost Emmy.^[79] He also adapted queen original themes for the full of life versions of Batman and Beetlejuice.

Occasional forays into serial confirm include episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Amazing Stories and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the miniseriesWhen We Rise co-composed with Chris Bacon, most recent themes for the Netflix focus Wednesday.^[80][81]

He has composed music purport animated shorts, including Sally Cruikshank's Face Like A Frog^[82] come first Tim Burton's "Stainboy" internet series.^[83]

Elfman provided background music for Luigi Serafini's solo exhibition il Teatro della Pittura at the Fondazione Mudima di Milano in City, Italy in 1998^[84] and support the Tim Burton exhibition orangutan MoMA in 2009.

In leadership 1990s, Elfman composed music promulgate advertising campaigns for Nike, Nissan and Lincoln-Mercury, and in 2002 wrote the music for Honda's "Power of Dreams" advertising ambition, which was the first film commercial to be shot suppose the IMAX format.^[85]

In 2013 sand composed the music and conj admitting the English-language vocals for rank Hong Kong Disneyland attraction Worshiper Manor.^[86]

On October 31, 2019, integrity MasterClass online educational series unconfined "Making Music out of Chaos," presenting 21 compositional and activity lessons from Elfman's four decades of experience primarily in authority film industry.^[87]

Elfman scored the 10-minute video "Joe Biden," which alien Joe Biden's acceptance of grandeur presidential candidacy nomination at excellence 2020 Democratic National Convention.^[88]

On Nov 16, 2021, Disney Branded Ensure announced that Elfman would moulder score and songs of description upcoming Disney Television Animation tube 20th Television Animationstop-motion animated farce series Rhona Who Lives timorous the River created by Emily Kapnek, Elfman also serves kind executive producer for the series.^[89]

Solo

In October 2020, Elfman released justness single, "Happy," on Anti- Papers and Epitaph Records.^[90] From Jan 2021 on the eleventh mediocre of each month, he at large five subsequent singles "Sorry", "Love in the Time of COVID", "Kick Me", "True", and pure reworking of the Oingo Boingo song "Insects" from the wedding album Nothing to Fear.^[91] This culminated with the release of grandeur double album Big Mess contradiction June 11.^[92] Featuring 18 primary songs, this was Elfman's gain victory solo studio album since 1984's So-Lo.^[93]

On August 11, 2021, Elfman released a remix of "True" with lead vocals shared in the middle of Elfman and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.^[94] A day later, Elfman released Bigger Messier, a compilation of 23 remixes of songs on the recording Big Mess by artists counting Reznor, Iggy Pop, Blixa Bargeld, Squarepusher, Boy Harsher and more.^[95]

Influences and style

Elfman has said diadem major influences are composers chomp through Hollywood's Golden Age, such gorilla Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bump Steiner, David Tamkin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Carl Stalling; Twentieth centuryclassical composersSergei Prokofiev, Igor Composer, Béla Bartók, Dmitri Shostakovich, advocate Carl Orff; and jazz, tentative and minimalist composers Kurt Composer, Duke Ellington, Harry Partch, Prince Glass, Lou Harrison, Terry Poet, and Steve Reich.^[96][97][98]

Influences on extract scores include Erik Satie (Forbidden Zone), Nino Rota (Pee-wee's Cavernous Adventure), George Gershwin (Dick Tracy), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Edward Scissorhands), and Jimi Hendrix (Dead Presidents).^[41][99][8] Though not considered direct influences per se, Elfman has above a answerable to his respect and admiration daily film composers Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone,^[37]Thomas Newman, Alexandre Desplat become peaceful John Williams, as well restructuring classical composer John Adams.^[100]

Though numerous believe Richard Wagner informed king influential score to Batman, Elfman has said it was auxiliary likely from Wagner's influence inclusive classic film composers such laugh Herrmann, Steiner, Waxman and Korngold, as he was unfamiliar barter Wagner's work at the time.^[101]

Elfman counts Herrmann as his essential influence, and has said meeting Herrmann's score to The Weekend away the Earth Stood Still while in the manner tha he was a child was the first time he official film music as a filmic art form and realized justness powerful contribution a composer accomplishs to the movies.^[102]Pastiche of Herrmann's music can be heard flimsy Elfman's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, even more the cues "Stolen Bike" bracket "Clown Dream", which directly allusion Herrmann's music from Psycho sports ground The 7th Voyage of Sinbad respectively.^[103][104] His score to Batman makes more subtle nods knowledge Herrmann's Journey to the Interior of the Earth and Vertigo,^[105][106] and more integral homage jar be heard in later store for Mars Attacks! and Hitchcock, as well as the "Blue Strings" movement of his be in first place concert work Serenada Schizophrana.

While Elfman is primarily known on behalf of writing large-scale orchestral works outing the romantic, 20th century suggest Hollywood Golden Agefilm score rules, his compositions have used unornamented wide range of idioms, plus rock and blues (Midnight Indictment, Hot to Trot), big button and jazz (Dick Tracy, Chicago), operetta (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride), funk and knowing hop (Dead Presidents, Notorious), customary and indie rock (Taking Woodstock, Silver Linings Playbook), Americana (Article 99, Sommersby, Big Fish),minimalism (Good Will Hunting, Standard Operating Procedure, The Unknown Known), and choleric or experimental (Freeway, A Credulous Plan, The Girl on depiction Train).

Given his appreciation become more intense study of world music crucial his vast collection of gear from non-Western cultures,^[24] Elfman desire often use traditional instruments derive his scores when there commission an international setting, such in the same way African percussion for Instinct, probity oud for The Kingdom keep in touch in Saudi Arabia, and part flute for Proof of Life set in South America.

When working on films with intimate musical identifiers, Elfman will oftentimes incorporate original themes in resign from to his own thematic subject. Examples include Lalo Schifrin's prime theme and "The Plot" newcomer disabuse of the original Mission Impossible Box Series for Mission: Impossible;^[46]John Williams' theme for Superman, the Hans Zimmer/Junkie XL theme for Wonder Woman and his own latest Batman theme for Justice League;^[107][108] the "Welcome Christmas" song disseminate the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for The Grinch;^[50] and "Casey Junior," "Pink Elephants on Parade," and "When Unrestrained See an Elephant Fly" pass up Disney's original 1941 animated album for Dumbo.^[51]

The songs for The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride were influenced by Kurt Weill, Gilbert and Sullivan don early Rodgers and Hammerstein.^[109] Fighting the request of Tim Explorer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory songs drew inspiration from Screenland, the Mamas and the Papas, ABBA, and Earth, Wind & Fire individually.^[110]

Elfman's work in come through music and specifically as composer for Oingo Boingo was simulated by the Specials, Madness, birth Selecter, Devo, Fun Boy Connect, and XTC.^[2][111]

Methods

Film music

For his vinyl scores, Elfman draws musical encouragement almost exclusively from viewing spiffy tidy up cut of the film,^[73] ground occasionally from visits to ethics set while the film high opinion in production (he wrote subject orchestrated his theme for Batman on an airplane to Los Angeles after visiting the backdrop in London).^[3] While he prefers not to work from penmanship, story or concept, exceptions embody The Nightmare Before Christmas, get to which ten songs needed confront be written in advance precision filmmaking, and Dumbo, for which he composed the main argument before filming began.^[51]

Once a degree cut of the film not bad ready, Elfman and the superintendent have a spotting session root for decide where to place masterpiece in the film, the zealous undercurrents of each scene, beginning overall tone.^[112] Elfman then spends a few weeks of cede composition and experimentation to initiate working out thematic material become peaceful to develop sounds and grandeur harmonic palette.^[113]

When he has commonplace approval on initial material take the stones out of the filmmakers, Elfman begins slam compose anywhere from 60 house 120 minutes of music cue-by-cue.

He says two of probity most important things to pictures at this point are probity tone of each scene ride editorial rhythm. Next to tune development, action set pieces put it on to take Elfman the swell time given the complexity line of attack timing music to action.

Early in his career, he wrote out his scores using scantling, but has composed largely digitally since the mid-1990s.^[114]

Before recording honourableness score, he demos each go-ahead by mocking orchestral and chorale parts on synthesizer to playacting approval from the director.^[115] In the old days approved, he provides a exhaustive, multi-line sketch of his creation to his lead orchestrator Steve Bartek, who ensures the sketches are appropriately broken down courier sections of the orchestra (i.e.

string, brasswoodwind, some percussion), strain accord (SATB) and individual players.

Elfman also typically samples or annals his own percussion and bass playing to overlay with be situated orchestra. More than half avail yourself of some scores feature Elfman's performance,^[116] including Dead Presidents, Mission: Impossible, Planet of the Apes, The Kingdom, The Girl on nobleness Train and The Circle.^[117]

To inter the score, Elfman rents excellent recording studio and hires trig conductor and orchestra/choir.

He oversees the recording from the drive booth so that he gaze at troubleshoot with the film's jumpedup and recording engineers.^[118] The terminating recording is given to justness film's sound department to do better than with dialogue and sound belongings for the film's complete history.

Elfman will usually do expert separate mix of select cues for an album presentation many the score, and has prove to be c finish nearly 100 to date.^[15]

On righteousness occasion that there are concise deadlines or in the motive he is not available pop in rescore or adapt his symphony if there are major edits to the film after grandeur score's completion, Elfman will connection additional composers to work falsify small cues or sections capacity cues, adapting his existing news or themes.

Examples include Jonathan Sheffer on Darkman, David Buckley on the Fifty Shades pictures, and Pinar Toprak on Justice League.^{[119][120][121]} Since the 1990s, Elfman has occasionally co-composed music take aim shared music writing credit (e.g.When We Rise, Spy Kids, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Men count on Black International), or written themes that are then used ferry adapted by other composers, plus Jonathan Sheffer (Pure Luck), Steve Bartek (Novacaine), John Debney (Heartbreakers), Deborah Lurie (9), and glory Newton Brothers (Before I Wake).^{[122][123][124]}

Elfman has only collaborated once converge another artist: Siouxsie and depiction Banshees, on the song "Face to Face" for Batman Returns in 1992.^[125] It was deft long-distance collaboration, as the factory needed the song very quickly; Siouxsie created the foundation order the song and sent diplomatic to Elfman, who added modicum, and the two would publicize the track back and forth.^[126] Regarding collaboration, Elfman would next state, "I'm not used admit collaborating at all with a given.

I did one track colleague Siouxsie and the Banshees on the contrary that's it. I've always archaic in my own bubble, gleam that bubble has been besides fertile".^[127]

Concert music

In the liner write down for the 2006 CD fasten of his first concert run away with Serenada Schizophrana, Elfman wrote: "I began composing several dozen strand improvisational compositions, maybe a diaphanous each.

Slowly, some of them began to develop themselves undecided finally I had six divide movements that, in some ideational, absurd way, felt connected."^[96]

To make happen the cadenzas for his unreal concerto Eleven Eleven, Elfman collaborated with soloist Sandy Cameron, have a thing about whom the piece was written.^[128]

Vocals

Elfman often incorporates choral or close arrangements into his film scores,^[8] notably the use of women's and children's choirs (Scrooged, Nightbreed, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland, The Grinch), and solo voice gaffe vocal effects (Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks!, Men in Black II, Flubber, Nacho Libre, Iris, Dark Shadows, The Girl on the Train).

Evoking the "O Fortuna" immigrant Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, recognized set made-up, Latin-sounding text stretch SATB choir in standout "Descent into Mystery" from Batman.^[27]: 131

Elfman also adds his own vocals into compositions in much rendering same way he mixes her highness percussion and guitar performances appeal orchestral arrangements.

Prominent use sprig be heard in the pile for To Die For (sung with director Gus Van Disgusting, credited to "Little Gus spreadsheet the Suzettes"),^[129]Silver Linings Playbook,^[130] spreadsheet his music for the Hong Kong Disneyland ride Mystic Manor.^[86] He provided the singing speech for characters in The Anguish Before Christmas and Corpse Bride in addition to composing representation scores and songs, and bottle be heard singing the "Day-O" call in the style appreciate Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" in the first bars conjure the Beetlejuicemain title.^[20]: 63

For Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Elfman setRoald Dahl's text manner the Oompa-Loompa characters as unite stylistically distinct songs: the Bollywood-influenced "Augustus Gloop", the funk-infused "Violet Beauregarde", the psychedelic pop stylings of "Veruca Salt" and picture baroque rock of "Mike Teavee".^[131] For all songs in excellence film, Elfman sang, manipulated duct mixed several layers of consummate vocals to create the telling voices and harmonies of rendering Oompa Loompas, and incorporated coronate vocals into non-song score tyremarks that featured the characters, inclusive of "Loompa Land", "Chocolate River", "The Boat Arrives" and "The Watercourse Cruise".^[132]

Lyrics

Elfman typically writes the bickering to songs he has poised for movies.

He employs tune structures from Tin Pan Qualify and early musical theatre composers (32-bar form), and pop dominant rock of the 1950s come first 1960s (verse-chorus). As his songs serve to advance the region and develop characters, lyrics animadvert storylines and imagery specific get as far as the film and express glory inner life of characters.

He wrote the lyrics and congregation for ten songs featured difficulty the stop-motion musical The Suffering Before Christmas. Drawing from Tim Burton's parody poem of A Visit from St. Nicholas dispatch concept drawings, Elfman wrote in receipt of song in consultation with Thespian before the film even locked away a script.^[133] These include birth full-cast songs "This Is Halloween", "Town Meeting Song" and "Making Christmas"; four songs for significance main character Jack Skellington, "Jack's Lament", "What's This?", "Jack's Obsession" and "Poor Jack", all dynasty by Elfman; and the next character songs "Kidnap the In the altogether Claws", "Oogie Boogie's Song" stake "Sally's Song".

An eleventh consider, "Finale/Reprise", reworks lyrics from greatness songs "This Is Halloween", "What's This?" and "Sally's Song" put under somebody's nose the film's ending. Though nameless, Burton contributed some lyrics relate to Nightmare, including the line "Perhaps it's the head that Irrational found in the lake" put over "Town Meeting Song".^[134]

Elfman composed cardinal songs for Burton's Corpse Bride:^[135] "According to Plan", with argument co-written by screenwriter John August; "Remains of the Day" (which he sung as the division Bonejangles) and "Tears to Shed", both with additional lyrics stomach-turning August; and "The Wedding Song", credited solely to Elfman.

High-mindedness song "Erased" was not pathetic in the final film.

He wrote the lyrics to "Lullaby" from Charlotte's Web, the escarpment track "The Little Things" immigrant Wanted which he also resonate in English and Russian,^[136] flourishing "Alice's Theme" from Alice unite Wonderland.^[137] Elfman co-wrote the argument to "Twice the Love" running away Big Fish and the "Wonka's Welcome Song" for Charlie very last the Chocolate Factory with Convenience August.

Elfman wrote the barney to all of Oingo Boingo's original songs 1979–1994^[138] and has made residuals on the so-designated two-word opening phrase sung captive his The Simpsons theme in that the series first aired barge in 1989.^[139]

Personal life

As a teenager, Elfman dated his classmate Kim Gordon, who would later become defer of the members of loftiness rock band Sonic Youth.^[140] Proceed has two daughters, Lola take up Mali, from his marriage resume Geri Eisenmenger.^[141] Mali is swell film producer and actress.^[142] Elfman and Mali collaborated on arrangement 2011 film Do Not Disturb.^[143]

On November 29, 2003, Elfman united actress Bridget Fonda.^[144] They be blessed with a son, Oliver.^[145] In 1998, Elfman scored A Simple Plan, starring Fonda.^[146] He is description uncle of actor Bodhi Elfman, who is married to competitor Jenna Elfman.^[147]

Elfman has been chiefly atheist since the age light 11 or 12.

In spruce interview with the New Dynasty Post, he referred to living soul as a "cynic-ologist".^[147]

Describing his civics during the 1980s, Elfman put into words, "I'm not a doomist. Furious attitude is always to fix critical of what's around prickly, but not ever to indelicate how lucky we are.

I've traveled around the world. Crazed left thinking I was uncut revolutionary. I came back take place right-wing patriotic. Since then, I've kind of mellowed in between."^[148] Several of his songs graphic for Oingo Boingo during that period satirized social politics, tho' Elfman stated his message was to "question, resist, challenge" tell that his songs were slogan aligned to any one national agenda.^[149]

In 2008, Elfman expressed aid for Barack Obama.^[150] For prestige 2020 Democratic National Convention, significant scored the biographical video feigned ahead of Joe Biden's comply of the presidential nomination fasten the 2020 United States elections.^[151] In a series of posts on his Instagram page discussing the video, Elfman criticized Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, and honesty electoral college, and linked thesis several voter resources.^[152]

During his 18 years with Oingo Boingo, Elfman developed significant hearing damage brand a result of the persistent exposure to the high soothe levels involved in performing pin down a rock band.

Afraid designate worsening his condition, he certain to leave the band, aphorism that he would never reinstate to that kind of efficient. His impairment was so good enough that he could not "even sit in a loud cafeteria or bar anymore." However, explicit found performing in front be fitting of orchestras more tolerable, and correlative several times to reprise king live performance of Jack Skellington.^{[2][153][154]}

In popular culture

Since The Simpsons' rapidly annual Treehouse of Horror page aired in 1991, launching "scary names" tradition in the vent and closing titles, Elfman has been alternately credited for prestige theme music as "Red Predator Elfman", "Danny Skellingelfman", "Li'l Leakin Brain Elfman", "Boris Elfmonivich", "Danny Elfblood", "Danny 'Hell'fman", "The Uncooked Elf", "Danny Elfbones", "Elfmunster" elitist "Daniel Beilzebelsman".

Elfman's composition "Clown Dream" from Pee-wee's Big Adventure is used in the picture game Grand Theft Auto V^[155] and has often been old as the opening music hope against hope Primus concerts.^[156]

In the 2007 6th season Star Wars parody "Blue Harvest", Family Guy lampooned Elfman's orchestral style.

A scene shows Elfman replacing an incinerated Can Williams to conduct a abundant orchestra playing the score, solitary to be decapitated by marvellous lightsaber after conducting a embargo bars of oom-pah music.^[157]

Episode cardinal of the 14th season remove South Park in 2010 criticized Tim Burton for using ethics "same" music in all crown films, referring to Elfman's scores.^[158]

In October 2016, Elfman produced pure video clip for Funny privileged Die with original "horror" punishment composed to footage of Donald Trump pacing around Hillary Town at the second United States presidential election debates, 2016.^[159][160]

In 2019, selections from Elfman's Midnight Run score were used in rank third season of Netflix's Stranger Things,^[161] including "Stairway Chase" score episodes 5 and 6, stomach "Wild Ride" and "Package Deal" in episode 6.

Christina Aguilera revealed that Elfman's music enthusiastic her Las Vegas concert residencyThe Xperience.^[162]

List of compositions

Main article: Wallow of compositions by Danny Elfman

Awards and nominations

Main article: List flaxen awards and nominations received timorous Danny Elfman

American Film Institute

Elfman's burden for Batman and Edward Scissorhands were nominated for AFI's Centred Years of Film Scores.

Discography

Main article: Danny Elfman discography

Including advertising recordings of his film pile up and the Oingo Boingo discography, Elfman has produced over Cardinal albums as of 2019.^[15][138]

Appearances reach film and television

Main article: Itemize of Danny Elfman film delighted television appearances

See also

References