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“LESS THAN 175 AVAILABLE!
Less than 175 of 1000 copies are left of Warner Bros. Records’ upcoming Limited, Numbered Collectors Edition of The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box, a very special box set that features expansions of the 13 original scores that Elfman has composed for Burton’s iconic films. This is a newly-produced library of 16 CDs each packaged with artwork by Burton, adding up to more than 19 hours of music, including 7 hours of previously-unreleased Masters, demos, work tapes and other rarities.”
I don’t know how much of a push they’re doing for Danny’s score, but it is featured on the Disney Awards site (currently not loading, not sure why)
http://www.waltdisneystudiosawards.com/aliceinwonderland/index.php
Music Box’ mines long collaboration
Elfman, Burton collection includes tunes and illustrations
By JON BURLINGAMEOur vote for this holiday season’s must-have, high-priced, movie-related toy is Warner Bros. Records’ “Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box,” a $500, limited-edition collection of 16 CDs, a lavishly illustrated book and assorted trinkets related to the long partnership between the composer and director of “Batman,” “Edward Scissorhands” and this year’s “Alice in Wonderland.”
Even Burton and Elfman (in a promotional video on YouTube) seem wowed by the design and size of the box, which features a working zoetrope with strips of Burton’s art and a chip that plays Elfman’s own music-box arrangement of his best-known themes. It’s like “something that someone found in a hidden attic in Edward Scissorhands’ home,” says Richard Kraft, Elfman’s longtime agent and co-executive producer of the project.“It’s extremely weird,” says Elfman about looking back at a quarter-century of collaborations with Burton, who first asked the Oingo Boingo frontman to write the music for his first film, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”
“I’ve never listened to a score of mine, ever. I don’t watch the movies,” he avers, noting that revisiting all 13 feature-film scores (and other projects) to assemble the CDs was uncomfortable.
Elfman’s assistant and Kraft spent months searching through dusty, half-forgotten storage units looking for every scrap of music that Elfman wrote and found various cassettes, DATs and reels of tape “in between boxes of broken doll parts and old synthesizer equipment,” says the composer.
The result is more than seven hours of previously unreleased material, including expanded soundtracks of all the movies and even early demos of Elfman themes and songs. Whether to include those demos was a bone of contention between composer and agent.
“We found one of his first demo recordings of ‘Batman,’ and it sounds like it was recorded on a Casio,” says Kraft.
“The early demos are incredibly embarrassing,” admits Elfman, who finally relented when Kraft insisted that they were “historic documents” that would not only be treasured by fans but should be preserved as film-music history.
“It’s not like we’re talking about old sex tapes,” says Elfman. “It’s just crappy sounding demos from 1989.”
Other finds include unused songs from “Nightmare Before Christmas” and “The Corpse Bride,” and what Kraft describes as “the gem” of the unreleased music, Elfman’s unused score for the Matthew Bourne-choreographed 2005 ballet of “Edward Scissorhands.”
The 16 CDs are illustrated with Burton’s own artwork; also included is a USB drive containing all the music and an hourlong DVD in which Burton and Elfman discuss their long collaboration. Johnny Depp wrote the foreword to the 260-page book.
“It’s spectacular when you consider what they’ve accomplished as a team and the fact that they’re still reinventing the Burton-Elfman model with each project after 25 years,” says Laura Engel, Kraft’s partner and co-exec producer on the project.
Says Elfman: “I wouldn’t have a career were it not for Tim and ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.’ Every one of those first six or seven films opened a new door for me, artistically and commercially. I was doing comedy, fantasy, action, romantic films, and he allowed me to try things out.”
Actually, that’s wrong. Here are the score credits:
Score Produced by Danny Elfman
Orchestrations by Steve Bartek, Edgardo Simone, David Slonaker
MIDI Supervision & Preparation by Marc Mann
Orchestra Leader: Thomas Bowes
Conductor: Rick Wentworth
Score Recorded by Peter Cobbin
Score Mixed by Dennis Sands
Recording Assistant Engineer : Chris Barrett
Mixing Assistant Engineer: Adam Olmsted
Music Editor: Bill Abbott
Additional Engineering: Greg Maloney
Additional Assistant Engineer & Music Preparation: Melisa McGregor
Additional Arrangements & Programming: TJ Lindgren
Pre-record Engineer: Noah Snyder
Orchestra Contractor: Isobel Griffiths
Assistant Orchestra Contractor: Jo Buckley
Score Recorded at Air Studios, London, England
Score Mixed at .1 Studio
Score Vocals by Ayana Haviv
Cello Solos: Josephine KnightFilms these days are not scored and recorded when they are 100% complete. Both films are will be scored by Elfman because their post-production schedules will be different.
“We’re going to do a workshop of that in January [2011], so we’re off and running,” he told Broadway.com on opening night of Driving Miss Daisy. “We have some amazing people on board: [writer] Aaron Sorkin, [composer] Danny Elfman, [director] Jack O’Brien. It’s going to be a really, really interesting group, so I’m excited.”
“Later this week we’ll feature a rare interview with Elfman discussing his work on projects like 1990’s “Batman,” but Warner Bros. Records has also provided Splash Page readers with an exclusive clip of Elfman and Burton reflecting on “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” one of the many projects featured in the 25th Anniversary Music Box. In the clip, the award-winning composer explains why he identified so well with the film’s skeletal hero.”
http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/10/26/danny-elfman-tim-burton-nightmare-before-christmas-score/
I haven’t received any email confirmation of my order beyond my PayPal confirmation (I paid by credit card because the WMG site was malfunctioning, saying it could not verify my billing address).
WARNER BROS. RECORDS TO RELEASE THE DANNY ELFMAN & TIM BURTON 25TH ANNIVERSARY MUSIC BOX THIS DECEMBER
LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 ELABORATE COLLECTIBLE PACKAGES CELBRATES 25 YEARS OF CREATIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACCLAIMED COMPOSER ELFMAN AND LEGENDARY FILM DIRECTOR BURTON AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT http://WWW.ELFMANBURTON.COM
Package Features More Than 19 Hours Of Music, Including Fan-Requested Expansions Of 13 Film Scores, Plus Seven Hours Of Previously Unreleased Music, A Skeleton USB Flash Drive Containing MP3s Of The Music And A Bonus DVD Featuring An Exclusive Conversation Between Elfman And Burton
Burbank, CA – This December, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ingenious collaboration between renowned composer Danny Elfman and legendary film director Tim Burton, Warner Bros. Records will release The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box, a very special limited-edition, numbered box set of 1000 that collects expansions of the 13 original scores that Elfman has composed for Burton’s iconic films: a newly produced library of 16 CDs each packaged with artwork by Burton, adding up to more than 19 hours of music. Additionally, the package will contain a bonus DVD of a recent exclusive conversation between Elfman and Burton discussing every film and score in their remarkable quarter century collaboration. The box is available for preorder starting today, October 1st at http://www.elfmanburton.com.
This elaborate and lovingly designed collectible box set includes the first-time-ever soundtrack release of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), as well as scores to the films Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Mars Attacks! (1986), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), and Alice in Wonderland (2010). It also includes music from Elfman and Burton’s numerous other collaborations: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Jar, Amazing Stories: Family Dog, Beetlejuice: The Animated Series, The World of Stainboy, Tim Burton’s Museum of Modern Art Exhibit and Danny Elfman’s unused score to the Edward Scissorhands Ballet.
Additional highlights of The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box include:
* Among the 19 hours of music are seven hours of previously unreleased music including such rarities as additional masters, cut songs, song and score demos, work tapes, orchestra-only song mixes, and foreign-language songs.
* Danse Macabre: 25 Years of Danny Elfman and Tim Burton: A meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated 250+ page fine linen-wrapped hardbound book, entitled with gold foil stamping, and featuring a foreword by Johnny Depp. The book also includes rare photos, stories, and interviews from the cast and crew behind the scenes of this classic music — from the early days of Elfman’s band Oingo Boingo to the recent blockbuster film Alice in Wonderland. Interviewed are such collaborators and peers as Guillermo Del Toro, Phillip Glass, Paul Haggis, James Newton Howard, Tom Jones, Michael Keaton, Ang Lee, Errol Morris, Thomas Newman, Catherine O’Hara, Jon Peters, Paul Reubens, David Rockwell, Scott Rudin, Marc Shaiman, Howard Shore, Twyla Tharp, Gus Van Sant, and Richard Zanuck. This comprehensive 10″x10″ keepsake book is written by acclaimed film-music journalist Jeff Bond and designed by Grammy Award winning designer Matt Taylor.
* An hour-long exclusive, newly filmed DVD featuring an extended conversation between Burton and Elfman as they reflect on their quarter-century collaboration.
* As a collectible created exclusively for this treasure box of music, a distinctive Skeleton Key USB Flash Drive has been designed—inspired by the art of Tim Burton. A pull of the key unlocks a USB drive loaded with MP3s of the entire contents of this Limited-Edition Music Box. From Pee-wee’s Big Adventure through Alice In Wonderland, it’s all there, including all the bonus tracks, demos, work tapes, and other rarities.
* Newly created liner notes by Elfman discussing each expanded score and their bonus material of additional masters, song and score demos, work tapes, orchestra-only song mixes, and foreign language versions.
* A collection of music as unique as Elfman’s for the films of Tim Burton needed to be housed in something equally special, wondrous, and whimsical. Designed to evoke a treasure chest found in a mysterious attic, The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box is a work of art in itself. Grammy-winning designer Matt Taylor has transformed previously unseen art by Burton and crafted a large scale, tin-covered music box complete with an embedded music chip playing “The Music Box Suite” arranged and performed by Elfman specifically for this historic collection. And to literally top it all off, with a flip of the lid, a delightful working zoetrope is revealed featuring strips of art and photos by Burton and Elfman that come to animated life with a spin.
The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box will be released as a Collectors Limited and Numbered Edition Box of 1,000 copies. The Danny Elfman and Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box is produced by Danny Elfman and Tim Burton and executive produced by Richard Kraft and Laura Engel.
About Danny Elfman: Four-time Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning composer Danny Elfman has scored such diverse films as Spider-Man, Good Will Hunting, Beetlejuice, Batman, Men in Black, Midnight Run, Big Fish, Dick Tracy, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mission:Impossible, Chicago, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Milk. His 25-year, 13 film collaboration with director Tim Burton began in 1985 when Elfman was pulled from his band Oingo Boingo to score Pee-wee’s Big Adveture and continues with 2010’s blockbuster Alice in Wonderland. Elfman made his classical music debut at Carnegie Hall with his symphony, “Serenada Schizophrana” followed up with “The Overeager Overture” which premiered at The Hollywood Bowl. His first ballet, “Rabbit and Rouge” choreographed by Twyla Tharp debuted with the American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center. . His upcoming projects include Paul Haggis’ Next Three Days, Real Steel, Gus Van Sant’s Restless, Men in Black 3, Tim Burton’s stop motion feature, Frankenweenie and Cirque du Soleil’s “Iris” scheduled to bow in residence in Summer 2011 at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. Elfman is also known for the classic television themes to The Simpsons and Desperate Housewives.
About Tim Burton: Tim Burton has directed memorable and stylistic films, ranging from Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. His most recent blockbuster, Alice in Wonderland broke the billion dollar mark. His films have collected 6 Academy Awards and 11 Oscar nominations for everything from acting to art direction. His first feature length film, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, was also his first collaboration with composer Danny Elfman. Their instant film chemistry led them to 13 collaborations, and will continue with Burton’s upcoming stop motion animated film, Frankeneweenie. With a background in animation, Burton has done more to revive the stop motion field than any other director, starting with his first stop motion project, Vincent, and continuing through the cult classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. Burton has also published a book of characters and stories, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, and most recently released an immense 430 page book comprising over 40 years of his personal and project artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton. He currently has an art exhibit that debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is touring through several art museums across the world.
No it’s a reply to DIM, who asked why no DARKMAN and BLACK BEAUTY. Licensing and fees no doubt precluded “Face To Face” from the boxed set. And why do you need it when there is the original Warner disc, the upcoming La-La expansion?
Only 1000 copies were licensed. Richard Kraft stated on FSM that the set was conceived as is – so no stripped down version, apparently. I look at it this way — it’s 25 years of music for $500. How much have you spent on soundtracks already? This probably won’t happen again for another 25 years, so why miss out.
At this time no, but it’s likely it will be part of the Elfman/Burton boxed set coming out this fall!
