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Variety reports that Danny Elfman’s ‘Music From the Films of Tim Burton’ will open the 2015 Lincoln Center Festival. Performances are sometime between July 6 and 12. No word on when tickets go on sale.
Update: Reportedly, tx go on sale to members 1/23, limited to purchasing packages of several different concerts. General public can get their tickets beginning March 31.
Danny Elfman’s ‘Music From the Films of Tim Burton’ to Open 2015 Lincoln Center Festival
More details from Lincoln Center:
Quote:The festival opens on July 6 with Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton, a multimedia orchestral experience of specially created suites from a majority of the film collaborations by the legendary composer and visionary director, combined with montages of film clips, sketches, drawings and storyboards edited by Burton. John Mauceri, one of the world’s foremost conductors of live film music, will lead a full orchestra and choir, with Danny Elfman making a special guest appearance. Audience members are encouraged to come to the performance dressed as their favorite character from the films. There will be eight performances in Avery Fisher Hall through July 12.…
Tickets: Lincoln Center Festival packages go on sale on January 23 to Friends of Lincoln Center and to the general public on February 2. Single tickets for the entire festival go on sale to Friends of Lincoln Center on March 23 and the general public on starting March 31. For more information and to buy tickets, visit LincolnCenterFestival.org or go to the Avery Fisher or Alice Tully Hall box offices, or call CenterCharge, 212-721-6500.
Would love to go to this but after two concerts in two years in two cities other than my own, I’m content to sit and wait until I can see it closer to home
Tickets went on sale today for the NYC performances, and they jazzed up the webpage:
http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/2015/danny-elfman-s-music-from-the-films-of-tim-burton
Tx are hella expensive, but probably worth it to see the spectacle in one of the country’s most revered concert music halls. [Sorry Ryan, I’m sure the cities where you saw the concerts were great, but they weren’t NYC!
]Publicity blitz ramping up for the NYC concerts! In addition to features on Elfman at Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, Lincoln Center posted an article on conductor John Mauceri:
“To open this most prestigious and eclectic festival with Danny Elfman’s music is, for me, a tremendous victory for valuing music that frequently is not valued.”
http://www.lincolncenter.org/article/john-mauceri-on-danny-elfman-music
Here’s a 50 minute one.
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/stravinsky-rock-batman-composer-danny-elfman/
That radio interview was awesome. Seeing the show tonight and can’t wait! I’ve been keeping track of all the coverage and most articles say the same thing: how did you get started, what’s it like working with Tim Burton, did it really take 15 minutes to compose the Simpson’s theme, etc.–nothing new for most of. But there’s been a few new insights.
The New York Times’s review of the concert pointed to influences of Shostakovich and Paganini in addition to the more typical stylistic comparison of Prokofiev (didn’t Elfman once say that if you hear classical influences in his works–e.g. Wagner in BATMAN–it is most likely those influences transmitted through golden age film composers like Korngold, Waxman and Herrman?)
Slate waxed rapturous about Elfman’s use of the Neapolitan 6 chord.
The New Yorker went “antiquing” with Elfman in NYC.
And The New York Post asked a hard hitting question about Elfman’s religious leanings. (Spoiler: No surprise but Danny appears to be marching in the army out to crush religious freedom, if I’m reading the subtext of The Post’s question right.)
Other features:
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/on-the-town/2015/07/7/lincoln-center-festival-opens-with-danny-elfman-s-music-for-tim-burton-films.html
http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/danny-elfman-on-8-of-his-iconic-scores.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/danny-elfman-looks-back-on-his-5-earliest-collaborations-wit#.mkjgxeWOX
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6620146/danny-elfman-simpsons-tim-burton-batman-interview
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/06/danny-elfman-tim-burton-lincoln-center-festival
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/01/danny-elfman-tim-burton
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/concert-honors-danny-elfman-work-tim-burton-article-1.2285846You can ask Danny a question here.
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