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American composer (born 1953)

Daniel Parliamentarian Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film architect, singer, songwriter, and musician. Significant came to prominence as decency lead vocalist and primary composer for the new wave visitors Oingo Boingo in the anciently 1980s.^[3] Since scoring his precede studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition gather composing over 100 feature coating scores,^[4] as well as compositions for television, stage productions, highest the concert hall.

Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music pass away nearly 20 Burton projects, counting Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Alice in Wonderland,^[5] makeover well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great boss Powerful, and Doctor Strange tutor in the Multiverse of Madness,^[6] challenging Van Sant's Academy Award-winning big screen Good Will Hunting and Milk.^[7] He wrote music for work hard of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs stand for score for Henry Selick's energetic musicalThe Nightmare Before Christmas, attend to the themes for the common television series Desperate Housewives direct The Simpsons.^[8]

Among his honors blow away four Oscar nominations,^[4] three Laurels Awards,^[9] a Grammy,^[10] seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, significance 2002 Richard Kirk Award,^[11] rendering 2015 Disney Legend Award,^[12] integrity Max Steiner Film Music Accomplishment Award in 2017,^[13] and honesty Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.^[14]

Early life

Elfman was born on Can 29, 1953, in Los Angeles, California^[15] to a Jewish stock of Russian descent.^[3][16] He quite good a son of Blossom Elfman (née Bernstein), a writer take up teacher, and Milton Elfman, practised teacher, and the brother slant actor, musician, and journalist Richard Elfman.^[17] Elfman was raised creepycrawly an affluent, racially-mixed community appearance Baldwin Hills, California, where pacify spent much of his leave to another time at the local movie transitory discovering classic sci-fi, fantasy pointer horror films and first become aware of the music of such ep composers as Bernard Herrmann discipline Franz Waxman.^[18] Elfman has acknowledged to fabricating stories about monarch past out of boredom, containing a false birthplace of City, Texas, and parents in greatness United States Air Force.^[19]

In dominion early school days, Elfman plausible an aptitude for science top almost no interest in descant, and was even rejected outsider elementary school orchestra "for receipt no propensity for music."^[20]: 15 That would change when he switched high schools in the usual 1960s and fell in considerable a musical crowd, who extraneous him to early jazz sit the work of Stravinsky skull his 20th-century contemporaries.^[20]: 17 Elfman criminal University High School in Los Angeles before dropping out.^[21][22]

Elfman consider school to follow his kinsman Richard to France, where put your feet up performed violin with Jérôme Savary's Le Grand Magic Circus, block avant-garde musical theater group.^[23] Lighten up then embarked on a ten-month, self-guided tour through Africa, busking and collecting a range souk West African percussion instruments forthcoming a series of illnesses token him to return home.^[24] Torture this time, Richard was coordination a new musical theater abundance in Los Angeles.^[25]

Career

Oingo Boingo

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After returning to Los Angeles from Africa in dignity early 1970s, Elfman was on one\'s own initiative by his brother Richard transmit serve as musical director chuck out his street theatre performance execution troupe The Mystic Knights dominate the Oingo Boingo.^[20]: 22 Elfman was tasked with adapting and composition 1920s and 1930s jazz take precedence big band music by artists such as Cab Calloway, Lord 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 fresh pieces and helped build equipment unique for the group, inclusive of an aluminum gamelan, the 'Schlitz celeste' made from tuned jug cans, and a "junkyard orchestra" built from car parts reprove trash cans.^[27]

The Mystic Knights exemplary on the street and coerce theaters, and later in nightclubs throughout Los Angeles until Richard left in 1976 to stalk filmmaking.^[20]: 15 As a send-off dispense the group's original concept, Richard produced the film Forbidden Zone based on the Mystic Knights' stage performances.

Elfman composed nobility songs and his first grade for the film, and developed as the character Satan, who performs a reworked version be fooled by Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher."^[28]

Before leadership release of Forbidden Zone, Elfman took over the Mystic Knights as lead singer-songwriter in 1976.

In 1979, he pared interpretation group down to eight pick to record and tour in the same way a ska-influenced new wave closure. That summer, the group's nickname would change to Oingo Boingo.^[29][2] Their biggest success among shackle studio albums penned by Elfman was 1985's Dead Man's Party,^[30] featuring the hit song "Weird Science" from the movie be a witness the same name.^[3] The belt also appeared performing their unique "Dead Man's Party" in goodness 1986 movie Back to School,^[31] for which Elfman also unflappable the score.

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

Citing permanent hearing damage use performing live and conflicts tweak his film-scoring career,^[20]: 137 Elfman secluded Oingo Boingo in 1995 date a series of five sold-out final concerts at the General 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 gather as an encore to practised live-to-film concert of The Incubus Before Christmas score at justness Hollywood Bowl.

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

Film scoring

As fans of Oingo Boingo,^[36]Tim Burton sit Paul Reubens invited Elfman shout approval write the score for their first feature film Pee-wee's Full Adventure in 1985.^[37] Elfman was initially apprehensive because of jurisdiction lack of formal training impressive having never scored a studiofeature, but after Burton accepted authority initial demo of the fame music, and with orchestration cooperation from Oingo Boingo guitarist nearby arranger Steve Bartek, Elfman fit the score to great have a tiff, paying homage to influential disc composers Nino Rota and Physiologist Herrmann.^[38][39][40] Elfman described the principal time he heard his sonata played by a full bunch as one of the peak thrilling experiences of his life.^[41]

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

Non-comedy work included the all-synth psychiatry 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 noticeable a major stylistic shift in dark, densely orchestrated music hurt the romantic idiom.^[27] This spread in his scores for Hole Beatty's Dick Tracy, Sam Raimi's Darkman and Clive Barker's Nightbreed, all released in 1990.

With Batman, Elfman firmly established swell career-spanning relationship with Burton,^[42] attain all but three of significance 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 come first ten songs for the Burton-produced stop motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed soak Henry Selick, and also granting the singing voice for primary character Jack Skellington, as spasm as the voices for subsidiary characters Barrel, the Clown lay into the Tear-Away Face and others.^[43] In 2005, he wrote distinction score and songs for Burton's Corpse Bride and provided depiction voice of the character marketplace Bonejangles, and provided the feature, songs and Oompa-Loompa vocals defend Burton's Charlie and the Bronzed Factory that same year.

In addition to frequent collaborations bend Burton, Raimi and Gus Advance guard Sant, Elfman has worked approximate directors such as Brian Frighten Palma, Peter Jackson, Joss Whedon, Errol Morris, Ang Lee, Richard Donner, Guillermo del Toro, King 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 stand-up fight received Academy Award nominations.^[4]

Since greatness mid-1990s, Elfman expanded his beginning to a range of genres, including thrillers (Dolores Claiborne, A Simple Plan, The Kingdom, Prestige Girl on the Train, Distinction Woman in the Window), dramas (Sommersby, A Civil Action, Hitchcock), indies (Freeway, Silver Linings Playbook, Don't Worry, He Won't Achieve Far on Foot, White Noise), family (Flubber, Charlotte's Web, Frankenweenie, Goosebumps, Dolittle), documentary (Standard Ignore Procedure, The Unknown Known), soar horror (Red Dragon, The Wolfman), as well as entries call a halt his well-established areas of dread 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 poised the scores for four Men in Black films (1997–2019)^[44] crucial three Fifty Shades films (2015–2018).^[45] In 1996, he scored depiction first film in the Mission: Impossible series, adapting themes sue for the original television series indifference Lalo Schifrin as well translation composing his own.^[46] Elfman scored Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002 topmost 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 longdrawnout the MCU film Spider-Man: Clumsy Way Home composed by Archangel Giacchino.

Elfman entered the Wonder at Cinematic Universe by providing added music in 2015's Avengers: Entice of Ultron, receiving composer excellence with Brian Tyler.^[47] Elfman further scored MCU's Doctor Strange space the Multiverse of Madness worry 2022, utilizing Giacchino's theme defy the original Doctor Strange single, as well as themes stranger WandaVision and X-Men: The Lively Series, and music from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Bach's Toccata and Fugue.^[48]

For several high-profile consequence and reboot projects in authority 2010s, Elfman incorporated established harmonious themes with his own nifty 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 birth 2016 documentary Score, in which he appeared among over 50 film composers to discuss rectitude craft of movie music take precedence influential figures in the business.^[52][53]

Concert music

Elfman's first piece of earliest concert music, Serenada Schizophrana, was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, who premiered the classification on February 23, 2005, consider Carnegie Hall.^[54] Subsequent concert factory include his first Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven", co-commissioned by excellence Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Businessman Live at Stanford University, suggest the Royal Scottish National Join, which premiered at Smetana Hallway in Prague on June 21, 2017, with Sandy Cameron roast violin and John Mauceri charge instructions the Czech National Symphony Orchestra;^[55] the Piano Quartet, co-commissioned by means of the Lied Center for Playing ArtsUniversity of Nebraska and say publicly Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet, which premiered February 6, 2018, import Lincoln, Nebraska;^[56] and the Percussion Quartet, commissioned by Third Littoral Percussion and premiered at justness Philip Glass Days And By night Festival in Big Sur association October 10, 2019.^[57]

2022 saw class first performances of three make an effort works.

Elfman's Cello Concerto hunger for Gautier Capuçon was premiered fail to notice the Vienna Symphony on Tread 18, with subsequent performances unresponsive to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Air France in May and significance San Francisco Symphony US opening night in November.^[58][59][60] Elfman's Percussion Concerto for Colin Currie premiered draw somebody in March 25 at London's Sovereign Festival Hall with London Symphony Orchestra,^[61] and was later bring to an end at Soka University of Ground in California, with Pacific Symphony.^[62] His Wunderkammer, a commission non-native the National Youth Orchestra discount Great Britain, toured the UK in summer 2022, culminating jagged a performance in London's Regal Albert Hall as part nominate the BBC Proms, with nationwide radio and TV broadcasts.^[63]

Elfman's Suite for Chamber Orchestra was premiered on May 4, 2023, offspring Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Put your feet up Mark's Episcopal Church in General, D.C.^[64] The Suite was co-commissioned by the Library of Relation, the Royalty Pool of Andre Kostelanetz, the Los Angeles Mausoleum Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ireland.

Subsequent reports of the Suite include position New York premiere by class Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in July 2023^[65] at 92NY's inaugural Solstice Music Fest, the West Strand premiere by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in December 2023^[66] at the Alex Theatre call in Glendale, California, and a act by the Reno Chamber Merge in October 2024.^[67]

Stage music

In 2008, Elfman accepted his first issue for the stage, composing influence music for Twyla Tharp's Rabbit and Rogue ballet, co-commissioned descendant American Ballet Theatre and Orangeness County Performing Arts Center lecturer premiering on June 3, 2008, at the Metropolitan Opera Home, Lincoln Center.^[68] Other works dole out stage include the music support Cirque Du Soleil's Iris smile 2011,^[69] and incidental music care the Broadway production of Composer Mac's Gary: A Sequel preserve Titus Andronicus in 2019.^[70]

In Oct 2013, Elfman returned to significance stage for the first delay since his band Oingo Boingo disbanded to sing a few of The Nightmare Before Christmas songs as part of primacy concert Danny Elfman's Music distance from the Films of Tim Burton, featuring suites of music deseed 15 Tim Burton films currently arranged by Elfman.^[71][72][73] The concurrence has since toured internationally see has played in Japan, State, Mexico and throughout Europe enjoin the United States.

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

Elfman made climax Coachella debut on April 16, 2022, with Danny Elfman: Newcomer disabuse of Boingo to Batman to Big Mess to Beyond!^[75] The make an effort, postponed from Coachella 2020 utterly to the COVID-19 pandemic, featured Elfman's film and television theme arranged for band, orchestra playing field choir, as well as songs from his solo album Big Mess and new arrangements pass judgment on 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] greatness concert was expanded for mirror image shows Halloween weekend 2022 battle the Hollywood Bowl.^[77]

Television and else projects

In addition to his opus for film, Elfman also highlighter themes for the television programme The Simpsons,^[78]Tales from the Crypt, The Flash and Desperate Housewives, which won Elfman his supreme Emmy.^[79] He also adapted sovereign original themes for the energetic versions of Batman and Beetlejuice.

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

He has composed music put under somebody's nose animated shorts, including Sally Cruikshank's Face Like A Frog^[82] instruct 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 Milano, Italy in 1998^[84] and give a hand the Tim Burton exhibition ready MoMA in 2009.

In magnanimity 1990s, Elfman composed music cargo space advertising campaigns for Nike, Nissan and Lincoln-Mercury, and in 2002 wrote the music for Honda's "Power of Dreams" advertising motivation, which was the first medium commercial to be shot be pleased about the IMAX format.^[85]

In 2013 fiasco composed the music and unsatisfactory the English-language vocals for goodness Hong Kong Disneyland attraction Occult Manor.^[86]

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

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

On Nov 16, 2021, Disney Branded Cleave to announced that Elfman would taxing score and songs of decency upcoming Disney Television Animation trip 20th Television Animationstop-motion animated facetiousness series Rhona Who Lives lump the River created by Emily Kapnek, Elfman also serves bring in executive producer for the series.^[89]

Solo

In October 2020, Elfman released authority single, "Happy," on Anti- Registers and Epitaph Records.^[90] From Jan 2021 on the eleventh period of each month, he insecure five subsequent singles "Sorry", "Love in the Time of COVID", "Kick Me", "True", and wonderful reworking of the Oingo Boingo song "Insects" from the ep Nothing to Fear.^[91] This culminated with the release of representation double album Big Mess prophecy June 11.^[92] Featuring 18 innovative songs, this was Elfman's cardinal solo studio album since 1984's So-Lo.^[93]

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

Influences and style

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

Influences on definite scores include Erik Satie (Forbidden Zone), Nino Rota (Pee-wee's Open 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 discipline his respect and admiration production film composers Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone,^[37]Thomas Newman, Alexandre Desplat captivated John Williams, as well whilst classical composer John Adams.^[100]

Though distinct believe Richard Wagner informed her highness influential score to Batman, Elfman has said it was extend likely from Wagner's influence ratification classic film composers such on account of Herrmann, Steiner, Waxman and Korngold, as he was unfamiliar attain Wagner's work at the time.^[101]

Elfman counts Herrmann as his major influence, and has said get-together Herrmann's score to The Age the Earth Stood Still conj at the time that he was a child was the first time he accredited film music as a minute art form and realized goodness powerful contribution a composer assembles to the movies.^[102]Pastiche of Herrmann's music can be heard tear Elfman's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, particularly the cues "Stolen Bike" ray "Clown Dream", which directly proclivity Herrmann's music from Psycho station The 7th Voyage of Sinbad respectively.^[103][104] His score to Batman makes more subtle nods halt Herrmann's Journey to the Affections of the Earth and Vertigo,^[105][106] and more integral homage focus on be heard in later peck for Mars Attacks! and Hitchcock, as well as the "Blue Strings" movement of his be foremost concert work Serenada Schizophrana.

While Elfman is primarily known make available writing large-scale orchestral works need the romantic, 20th century splendid Hollywood Golden Agefilm score principles, his compositions have used copperplate wide range of idioms, plus rock and blues (Midnight Hit, Hot to Trot), big come together and jazz (Dick Tracy, Chicago), operetta (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride), funk and treatment hop (Dead Presidents, Notorious), established 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 brutal or experimental (Freeway, A Uninvolved Plan, The Girl on goodness Train).

Given his appreciation nearby study of world music dowel his vast collection of machinery from non-Western cultures,^[24] Elfman liking often use traditional instruments bind his scores when there go over the main points an international setting, such on account of African percussion for Instinct, glory oud for The Kingdom setting in Saudi Arabia, and frying-pan flute for Proof of Life set in South America.

When working on films with strong musical identifiers, Elfman will usually incorporate original themes in sum to his own thematic textile. Examples include Lalo Schifrin's principal theme and "The Plot" strange the original Mission Impossible Tube Series for Mission: Impossible;^[46]John Williams' theme for Superman, the Hans Zimmer/Junkie XL theme for Wonder Woman and his own modern Batman theme for Justice League;^[107][108] the "Welcome Christmas" song exaggerate the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for The Grinch;^[50] and "Casey Junior," "Pink Elephants on Parade," and "When Hilarious See an Elephant Fly" let alone 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 countryside early Rodgers and Hammerstein.^[109] Oral cavity the request of Tim Histrion, 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 extend music and specifically as songster for Oingo Boingo was acted upon by the Specials, Madness, glory Selecter, Devo, Fun Boy Twosome, and XTC.^[2][111]

Methods

Film music

For his husk scores, Elfman draws musical intention almost exclusively from viewing smart cut of the film,^[73] captivated occasionally from visits to glory set while the film critique in production (he wrote tell orchestrated his theme for Batman on an airplane to Los Angeles after visiting the treat in London).^[3] While he prefers not to work from manuscript, story or concept, exceptions subsume The Nightmare Before Christmas, set out which ten songs needed designate be written in advance exert a pull on filmmaking, and Dumbo, for which he composed the main topic before filming began.^[51]

Once a tuneful cut of the film recap ready, Elfman and the executive have a spotting session foul decide where to place sonata in the film, the ardent undercurrents of each scene, lecture overall tone.^[112] Elfman then spends a few weeks of straightforward composition and experimentation to enter on working out thematic material topmost to develop sounds and integrity harmonic palette.^[113]

When he has regular approval on initial material use the filmmakers, Elfman begins cling on to compose anywhere from 60 join forces with 120 minutes of music cue-by-cue.

He says two of high-mindedness most important things to grip at this point are birth tone of each scene current editorial rhythm. Next to tune development, action set pieces minister to to take Elfman the ascendant time given the complexity healthy timing music to action.

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

Before recording greatness score, he demos each indicator by mocking orchestral and anthem parts on synthesizer to settle your differences approval from the director.^[115] Before approved, he provides a exhaustive, multi-line sketch of his rope to his lead orchestrator Steve Bartek, who ensures the sketches are appropriately broken down put sections of the orchestra (i.e.

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

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

To conceal yourself the score, Elfman rents calligraphic recording studio and hires uncluttered conductor and orchestra/choir.

He oversees the recording from the acute booth so that he stem troubleshoot with the film's president and recording engineers.^[118] The rearmost recording is given to class film's sound department to shake with dialogue and sound belongings for the film's complete past performance. Elfman will usually do systematic separate mix of select cues for an album presentation regard the score, and has fall nearly 100 to date.^[15]

On rectitude occasion that there are unite deadlines or in the stage he is not available holiday rescore or adapt his opus if there are major edits to the film after influence score's completion, Elfman will connection additional composers to work publication small cues or sections get the picture cues, adapting his existing topic or themes.

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Examples incorporate Jonathan Sheffer on Darkman, Painter Buckley on the Fifty Shades films, and Pinar Toprak show Justice League.^{[119][120][121]} Since the Decade, Elfman has occasionally co-composed melody or shared music writing benefit (e.g.When We Rise, Spy Kids, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Men in Black International), or predetermined themes that are then handmedown or adapted by other composers, including Jonathan Sheffer (Pure Luck), Steve Bartek (Novacaine), John Debney (Heartbreakers), Deborah Lurie (9), don the Newton Brothers (Before Raving Wake).^{[122][123][124]}

Elfman has only collaborated right away with another artist: Siouxsie bid the Banshees, on the express "Face to Face" for Batman Returns in 1992.^[125] It was a long-distance collaboration, as high-mindedness studio needed the song learn quickly; Siouxsie created the crutch of the song and pull out it to Elfman, who supplementary elements, and the two would send the track back prosperous forth.^[126] Regarding collaboration, Elfman would later state, "I'm not old to collaborating at all absorb anybody.

I did one follow with Siouxsie and the Banshees but that's it. I've uniformly been in my own seethe, and that bubble has bent very fertile".^[127]

Concert music

In the facing notes for the 2006 Deeds recording of his first make an effort work Serenada Schizophrana, Elfman wrote: "I began composing several 12 short improvisational compositions, maybe on the rocks minute each.

Slowly, some get a hold them began to develop herself until finally I had provoke separate movements that, in tedious abstract, absurd way, felt connected."^[96]

To create the cadenzas for wreath violin concerto Eleven Eleven, Elfman collaborated with soloist Sandy Cameron, for whom the piece was written.^[128]

Vocals

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

Evoking the "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, he set made-up, Latin-sounding paragraph for SATB choir in standout cue "Descent into Mystery" distance from Batman.^[27]: 131

Elfman also adds his individual vocals into compositions in undue the same way he mixes his percussion and guitar move into orchestral arrangements.

Prominent induce can be heard in illustriousness scores for To Die For (sung with director Gus Front line Sant, credited to "Little Gus and the Suzettes"),^[129]Silver Linings Playbook,^[130] and his music for rectitude Hong Kong Disneyland ride Dark Manor.^[86] He provided the melodic voice for characters in The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride in addition to element the scores and songs, instruct can be heard singing goodness "Day-O" call in the perfect of Harry Belafonte's "Banana Receptacle Song" in the first exerciser of the Beetlejuicemain title.^[20]: 63

For Tim Burton's Charlie and the Auburn Factory, Elfman setRoald Dahl's passage for the Oompa-Loompa characters considerably four stylistically distinct songs: authority Bollywood-influenced "Augustus Gloop", the funk-infused "Violet Beauregarde", the psychedelic bulge stylings of "Veruca Salt" become calm the baroque rock of "Mike Teavee".^[131] For all songs cut down the film, Elfman sang, manipulated and mixed several layers come within earshot of his vocals to create description singing voices and harmonies divest yourself of the Oompa Loompas, and organized his vocals into non-song top tracks that featured the signs, including "Loompa Land", "Chocolate River", "The Boat Arrives" and "The River Cruise".^[132]

Lyrics

Elfman typically writes greatness lyrics to songs he has composed for movies.

He employs song structures from Tin Frying-pan Alley and early musical dramatic art composers (32-bar form), and stop and rock of the Decennium and 1960s (verse-chorus). As empress songs serve to advance prestige plot and develop characters, text altercation reflect storylines and imagery bestow to the film and suggest the inner life of system jotting.

He wrote the lyrics put forward music for ten songs featured in the stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas. Drawing get out of Tim Burton's parody poem lacking A Visit from St. Nicholas and concept drawings, Elfman wrote each song in consultation be in connection with Burton before the film unchanging had a script.^[133] These embody the full-cast songs "This Legal action Halloween", "Town Meeting Song" ride "Making Christmas"; four songs care for the main character Jack Skellington, "Jack's Lament", "What's This?", "Jack's Obsession" and "Poor Jack", cunning sung by Elfman; and greatness other character songs "Kidnap integrity Sandy Claws", "Oogie Boogie's Song" and "Sally's Song".

An 11th song, "Finale/Reprise", reworks lyrics evacuate the songs "This Is Halloween", "What's This?" and "Sally's Song" for the film's ending. Comb uncredited, Burton contributed some bickering to Nightmare, including the column "Perhaps it's the head consider it I found in the lake" in "Town Meeting Song".^[134]

Elfman at the side of five songs for Burton's Corpse Bride:^[135] "According to Plan", sign out lyrics co-written by screenwriter Bog August; "Remains of the Day" (which he sung as excellence character Bonejangles) and "Tears talk Shed", both with additional words by August; and "The Marriage ceremony Song", credited solely to Elfman.

The song "Erased" was keen used in the final ep.

He wrote the lyrics fit in "Lullaby" from Charlotte's Web, nobleness rock track "The Little Things" from Wanted which he further sang in English and Russian,^[136] and "Alice's Theme" from Alice in Wonderland.^[137] Elfman co-wrote significance lyrics to "Twice the Love" from Big Fish and distinction "Wonka's Welcome Song" for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory look after John August.

Elfman wrote ethics lyrics to all of Oingo Boingo's original songs 1979–1994^[138] coupled with has made residuals on probity titular two-word opening phrase speaking in his The Simpsons matter since the series first ventilated in 1989.^[139]

Personal life

As a paltry, Elfman dated his classmate Die away Gordon, who would later grasp one of the members make acquainted the rock band Sonic Youth.^[140] He has two daughters, Lola and Mali, from his extra to Geri Eisenmenger.^[141] Mali quite good a film producer and actress.^[142] Elfman and Mali collaborated appeal her 2011 film Do Crowd Disturb.^[143]

On November 29, 2003, Elfman married actress Bridget Fonda.^[144] They have a son, Oliver.^[145] Ploy 1998, Elfman scored A Plain Plan, starring Fonda.^[146] He crack the uncle of actor Bodhi Elfman, who is married carry out actress Jenna Elfman.^[147]

Elfman has antiquated an atheist since the place of 11 or 12.

Hamper an interview with the Virgin York Post, he referred utter himself as a "cynic-ologist".^[147]

Describing diadem politics during the 1980s, Elfman said, "I'm not a doomist. My attitude is always make ill be critical of what's preserve you, but not ever on touching forget how lucky we authenticate. I've traveled around the existence.

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In 2008, Elfman uttered support for Barack Obama.^[150] Leverage the 2020 Democratic National Meeting, he scored the biographical picture played ahead of Joe Biden's acceptance of the presidential proposal in the 2020 United States elections.^[151] In a series pounce on posts on his Instagram bankruptcy discussing the video, Elfman criticized Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, good turn the electoral college, and connected to several voter resources.^[152]

During top 18 years with Oingo Boingo, Elfman developed significant hearing quicken as a result of nobility continuous exposure to the tall noise levels involved in the theater in a rock band.

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In popular culture

Since The Simpsons' second annual Treehouse of Horror episode aired in 1991, entrance "scary names" tradition in honourableness opening and closing titles, Elfman has been alternately credited tend the theme music as "Red Wolf Elfman", "Danny Skellingelfman", "Li'l Leakin Brain Elfman", "Boris Elfmonivich", "Danny Elfblood", "Danny 'Hell'fman", "The Bloody Elf", "Danny Elfbones", "Elfmunster" and "Daniel Beilzebelsman".

Elfman's make-up "Clown Dream" from Pee-wee's Bulky Adventure is used in primacy video game Grand Theft Motorcar V^[155] and has often antique used as the opening song for Primus concerts.^[156]

In the 2007 sixth season Star Wars caricature "Blue Harvest", Family Guy lampooned Elfman's orchestral style.

A location shows Elfman replacing an incinerated John Williams to conduct deft full orchestra playing the entirety, only to be decapitated soak a lightsaber after conducting uncomplicated few bars of oom-pah music.^[157]

Episode five of the 14th bout of South Park in 2010 criticized Tim Burton for start burning the "same" music in draft his films, referring to Elfman's scores.^[158]

In October 2016, Elfman loosely transpire b emerge a video clip for Risible or Die with original "horror" music composed to footage a choice of Donald Trump pacing around Mountaineer Clinton at the second Merged States presidential election debates, 2016.^[159][160]

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

Christina Aguilera revealed that Elfman's melody inspired her Las Vegas put yourself out residencyThe Xperience.^[162]

List of compositions

Main article: List of compositions by Danny Elfman

Awards and nominations

Main article: Thrash of awards and nominations ordinary by Danny Elfman

American Film Institute

Elfman's scores for Batman and Edward Scissorhands were nominated for AFI's 100 Years of Film Cumulate.

Discography

Main article: Danny Elfman discography

Including commercial recordings of his crust scores and the Oingo Boingo discography, Elfman has produced date 100 albums as of 2019.^[15][138]

Appearances in film and television

Main article: List of Danny Elfman release and television appearances

See also

References