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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DANNY ELFMAN'S FIRST CONCERT WORK
SERENADA SCHIZOPHRANA
IN STORES OCTOBER 3rd ON SONY CLASSICAL

Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated composer of music for over 100 films and tv
series - Batman, Spiderman, Good Will Hunting, Edward Scissorhands, "The
Simpsons"

Work premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2005 - music later featured in IMAX's Deep
Sea 3D


Adding another facet to an already brilliant life in music, Danny Elfman steps
out from his career-defining role as a Grammy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated
composer of original music for film (Batman, Spiderman, Beetle Juice, The
Nightmare Before Christmas) and television ("Pee-Wee's Playhouse," "The
Simpsons," "Desperate Housewives") with the release of Serenada Schizophrana,
his first orchestral composition written specifically for the concert hall.

The world premiere of Serenada Schizophrana at Carnegie Hall on February 23,
2005 drew ecstatic reviews across-the-board from both classical music and pop
culture critics. It subsequently received worldwide exposure as the featured
music in the soundtrack to the IMAX film Deep Sea 3D which was narrated by
Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. The Sony Classical recording is conducted by John
Mauceri, best known for his sixteen years as conductor of the Hollywood Bowl
Orchestra.

The genesis of Serenada Schizophrana was a commission from the American
Composers Orchestra (ACO), a new honor for Elfman and a challenge that he
welcomed. Without the usual visuals to drive his orchestral music, he writes,
"I began composing several dozen short improvisational compositions, none of
them related. Slowly, some of them began to develop themselves until I had six
separate movements that, in some abstract, absurd way, felt connected."

Serenada Schizophrana was scored for large orchestra, electronics, two pianos,
and female voices. "With six movements, rolling piano solos . and the charming
hoots and chirps of eight female voices," wrote Bernard Holland in the New York
Times, "Mr. Elfman gave us music comfortable in its own world and highly
professional in its execution . The composer of this piece has an ear for
symphonic colors and how to balance them."

"In keeping with the piece's title," Mac Randall also noted at the time in the
New York Observer, "the music veered madly from Ellingtonian whimsy to Bernard
Herrmannesque agitation . The tortured swing of the third movement conjured up
the image of a jazz band on a storm-tossed raft, with trash-can cymbals acting
as the crashing waves. And the furious horn-stoked climax and surprising
last-second resolution of the closing movement made for a rousing finish."

For Elfman, a self-taught musician who had never heard any of his orchestral
music performed live on stage, it was a "thrilling experience." Highly
influenced by the work of such mid-20th century film composers Bernard Herrmann,
Nino Rota, Dimitri Tiomkin, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold, among many others,
Elfman's music is also tempered by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Orff and Bartók, as
well as early Duke Ellington. "I am forever attached to the music of the early
20th century," Elfman writes. To this mix, he adds his recent discoveries of
Harry Partch, Philip Glass and Lou Harrison.

Serenada Schizophrana is a 'gumbo' of all these styles and influences, as
conjured up by the imaginative and often surreal pen of Danny Elfman. A
prolific composer for more than a quarter-century, Elfman has written music for
over a hundred films and tv series. He is well-known for his collaborations
with equally eccentric director Tim Burton on a partnership that began in 1985
with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and went on to include Beetle Juice (1988), Batman
(1989, whose theme won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition), Edward
Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow
(1999), Planet Of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and The Chocolate
Factory (2005), and Corpse Bride (2005).

For most of this time (until about a decade ago) Elfman was a mainstay of the
beloved Los Angeles-based group Oingo Boingo, which was originally assembled in
the late-'70s by his older brother, writer-director Richard Elfman, to provide
the music for his first movie Forbidden Zone (1980). The group flourished (over
the course of eight albums) but also became ubiquitous on movie soundtracks
through the '80s: Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982), Bachelor Party (1984),
Weird Science (whose title song became a pop hit, 1985), Something Wild (1986),
to name a few.

Meanwhile, as his working friendship with Burton grew in the '90s (and Oingo
Boingo eventually disbanded), Elfman focused on what turned into a string of
some 50 signature movie soundtracks, among them: Dick Tracy (1990), Sommersby
(1993), Dolores Claiborne, Dead Presidents, and To Die For (all 1995), Mission
Impossible (1996), the Men In Black franchise (1997, 2002), Good Will Hunting
(1997), Chicago (2002), and Nacho Libre (2006). Upcoming projects include
Disney's animated Meet the Robinsons, Paramount's adaptation of Charlotte's Web.

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