That demo ended up being the main titles to Pee-wee's Big Adventure. "So I went home and recorded a demo and sent it on a cassette. So we had all these common points, growing up two horror movie kids in Los Angeles - it was a common bond. But in meeting him, I realized we both grew up on the same films and that we were both fans of Bernard Herrmann. Of course, I didn't know who Tim Burton was (or myself as a composer). "So I was familiar with the character, and I loved the character. "But I took the meeting, and I knew who Paul Rubens (aka Pee-wee Herman) was since I had seen him perform at The Groundlings here in Los Angeles many times," Elfman said over the phone. I was kind of like a nerdy fan and it never occurred to me me as a possibility that I would ever get into film scoring, or that I should be attempting to. I was naturally really confused about that. And then, of course, on the contrary, it was about doing a score. I got a call saying, 'Will you meet with this young animator about a Pee-wee Herman movie called Pee-wee's Big Adventure?' I actually assumed that it was about having a song included in the movie, because that was what my world was at that time, being in a rock band, and having had a few of our songs included in movies, that's what I was used to. rock band Oingo Boingo, and had scored just one film prior, 1980's Forbidden Zone, a cult movie directed by his brother. At the time he was known musically only as the lead singer-songwriter of the successful L.A. The offer to score Pee-wee's Big Adventure, his first collaboration with Burton, was completely unexpected to Elfman. In advance of the concerts, Elfman spoke with BuzzFeed about his early collaborations with Burton, which helped cement one of the greatest composer-director relationships in movie history. Elfman himself also performs in the show, singing the Jack Skellington songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas (he provided the singing voice in the film). The multimedia concert, which originally premiered at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2013, goes through the highlights of the composer and director's 30-year collaborative relationship. As one of the world's leading TV and film composers, he has left an undeniable (musical) impression on pop culture over the last 30 years, creating everything from the theme songs to The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives to film scores for movies such as Good Will Hunting, Men in Black, Spider-Man, and, most recently, Fifty Shades of Grey and Avengers: Age of Ultron.īut it's Elfman's iconic collaborations with director Tim Burton - he has scored nearly every Burton film - that is the focus of his upcoming series of concerts, Music From the Films of Tim Burton, which runs from July 6–12 at New York's Lincoln Center. Danny Elfman might not be a name you immediately recognize, but you've definitely heard his work.
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