Danny Elfman and his film scores taking center stage at Nokia Theatre

Tanggal 29 Oktober, LA Times memuat artikel mengenai Danny Elfman, berikut kutipannya:

Collaborating with his orchestrator Steve Bartek, Elfman worked intensively over three months to determine the order in which the music should be presented. Then he wrote musical transitions to ensure the pieces from the 15 films would flow seamlessly during the performance.

He also created new passages to bolster some compositions — the up-tempo Gypsy number "Edward the Barber" from "Edward Scissorhands," for one, was extended for the performance. But Elfman wasn't necessarily interested in updating the music, especially the older material, to sound more contemporary.

"I tried not to take an approach of modernizing everything to be as I would do now. That would take away some of the charm of some of the earlier stuff, and I didn't want to do that."

"Serenada Schizophrana" is enjoying a robust afterlife — four selections from it will be featured in the first act of a dance program at Orange County's Segerstrom Center for the Arts, "Diana Vishneva: On the Edge," choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot and set to open Nov. 6. The program also features two pieces from Elfman's "Rummy (Not Edited)," taken from the score of Errol Morris' documentary "The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld."

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