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The Classical Film Score is Here to Stay

Last year Danny Elfman accepted an invitation from the American Composer Orchestra to write an evening of music for them to perform at Carnegie Hall, “and there wasn’t a terrible lot of thought that went into [the decision],” he says. “[So] I decided I better go to New York and see Carnegie Hall, because I’d never been there. And that was my biggest mistake.”   For the first time in his career, Elfman was asked to write orchestral music that wasn’t attached to a film, and he was given nearly free rein. Film composers typically arrive on a project at...  read more