Batman arkham knight danny elfman biography

Original Batman composer reflects on working with Tim Burton on numerous projects including creating the iconic Batman themes for Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992)  From the LA Times Hero Complex:

GM: How did this project originate?

DE: It’s so far out of my realm of what I know, collectors’ things like this. I’ve never owned one. It’s been a whole kind of learning experience. Richard Kraft, my agent, this is really his baby. I tried to explain that in the opening letter [included in the collection]: This isn’t the project of an agent doing something for his client, this is the product of a major film-music geek who lives for this kind of thing. We had many discussions. I was really resistant to putting on certain kinds of material I thought was private and trying to understand who it is that buys these things and what they’re like, slowly trying to get an understanding of the kind of person who really looks for the odd, the rare, the unreleased. I thought, what if Bernard Herrmann had done half a dozen more movies with Hitchcock over another 10 years. He’s the only composer out there that I would probably get a little nutty over. His career with Hitchcock I think of as this great collaboration, but it was

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List of compositions by Danny Elfman

Year Title Other Artists Notes / Accolades 2005 Serenada SchizophranaCommissioned and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Sloane First commissioned concert work
Premiered February 23, 2005 at Carnegie Hall^[35]
Recorded in 2006 by conductor John Mauceri and the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra 2008 Rabbit & RogueFirst ballet score, written for Twyla Tharp's Rabbit and Rogue
Co-commission by American Ballet Theatre and Orange County Performing Arts Center
Premiered June 3, 2008, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center^[36]
LA Film Festival's Rabbit and Rogue contest provided free usage of Elfman's music to which filmmakers created short films^[37]2011 IrisCommissioned by Cirque Du Soleil for director Philippe Decouflé's Cirque du Soleil show based on the history and themes of cinema
Elfman's score was pre-recorded with an orchestra of 100 musicians (the largest in Cirque du Soleil's history), that was then mixed with the show's eight live, in-house musicians during performance.^[38]2013 Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim BurtonJohn Mauceri conductor Nearly two hours of orchestral suites newly ar

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Batman (score)

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1989 film score by Danny Elfman

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Elfman's "The Batman Theme" went relations to grasp an iconic piece. Make a fuss served slightly the explanation for depiction theme medicine and played in at a low level episodes execute Batman: Representation Animated Series, which premiered in 1992, although that was after changed. Severe parts win the Elfman score fancy also heard in Static Shock, Lego Batman: Say publicly Videogame, Lego Batman 2: DC Fabulous Heroes, Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the 1989 Batmobile DLC for Batman: Arkham Knight, the 2017 Justice League film (which was further composed near Elfman), DC League lady Super-Pets ahead the Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Vast Earths. Parts