For links to other websites containing articles, please refer
to the EZ links page. Some items
below may have originated on such pages as Boingo.com
and Celluloidtunes.com,
but these days links are sent to the messageboard by great fans like Reza.
Interview: Danny Elfman,
Los Angeles showcase musepaper, 1990
[Boingo, self-taught, composing technique, composing equipement, conducting,
Dick Tracy, orchestration, Bartek, (Darkman, Edward Scissorhands
planned)]
Danny Elfman's nightmare, Movieline,
1993.11 *
[Nightmare before Christmas, Burton, composing technique, Elmer Bernstein,
mixing, Dick Tracy, Jimmy Callicut, Little demons,
hummer]
A little nightmare music, Details,
1993.12 *
[Nightmare before Christmas, Burton, Boingo, Ed Wood, Herrmann]
[Danny Elfman section], Listening
to movies, 1994 *
[classical composers, Herrmann, Korngold, Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Burton, Pee-wee's
big adventure, Edward Scissorhands]
Interview with Danny Elfman, Grammy
magazine, 1994.summer *
[composing technique, Boingo, Wisdom, Midnight run, The
Simpsons, Nightmare before Christmas, To die for, Rota,
Herrmann, Goldsmith, Mancini]
Interview with Danny Elfman, AOL,
1995.05 *
[Little demons, The world of Jimmy Callicut, Ed Wood,
Burton, E Bernstein, Goldsmith, self-taught, Morricone, The Simpsons,
Batman (Descent into mystery)/Orff, Boingo]
Interview with Danny Elfman, KROQ,
1995.09.13 *
[Boingo, Bartek, orchestration, conducting, To die for and Dead
presidents]
Inside Elfman's world, Home theater
technology, 1995.09 *
[Nightmare before Christmas, Little demons, Julian]
Danny Elfman (pt.2) - Sound effects
suck.., Film score monthly, 1995.12 *
[mixing, Batman returns, Batman, hummer/composing technique,
Shirley Walker, orchestration, Dead Presidents]
Steve Bartek [interview], Film
score monthly, 1995.12 *
Bartek, notation, orchestration, hummer/composing technique, Pee-wee's
big adventure, Lennie Niehaus, piano concerto, other (meddling) orchestrators,
Batman returns (mixing!!! - noted as "Batman 2"), Dolores
Claiborne, To die for, Dick Tracy, Dead Presidents,
Edward Scissorhands, Sommersby, orchestrators doing composing
work for Elfman (Jonathan Sheffer-Darkman, Shirley Walker-Nightbreed),
Nike commercial, samples vs orchestra, self-taught
[Title unverified], Penthouse,
1996.01 *
[Burton, Dolores Claiborne, Grappelli, composing technique, Boingo,
Little demons, The world of Jimmy Callicut, Julian,
Ed Wood, Herrmann]
Interview with Danny Elfman, AOL,
1997.01 *
[Bartek, Avila, composing technique (various angles), percussion, Batman,
Batman and Robin, samples vs orchestra (several mentions of each),
Boingo]
Danny's big adventure,
Electronic musician, 1997.02 *
[Freeway, deadlines (To die for vs Mission:impossible),
composing technique (various angles inc the click-track, orchestration),
Mission:impossible (much coverage), Pee-wee's big adventure,
Bartek, dissonance, Batman, Beetlejuice, Batman returns,
tone and styles, Russian music, composing equipment]
Tales from the black side, Film
score monthly, 1997.06
[Mars attacks!, Mission:impossible, 1996 as a busy year, styles,
Prokofiev, Herrmann, Rota, Batman, Dick Tracy, leitmotif,
Russian music, theramin, dissonance, composing technique, samples vs orchestra,
Edward Scissorhands (and the Nissan advert), films with too much
music, Herrmann, Penderecki, influence/plagiarism]
Forward, Gramophone film
music good CD guide, 3rd ed.1998
[David Kraft, Herrmann, (the film music nerd)]
Pumping the tunes in toontown,
Variety, 1998.04.23
[(interview with Clausen, but has Elfman quote), Clausen, The Simpsons]
Danny Elfman's big adventure continues
in Sleepy Hollow, E-mu, ca.1999
[Sleepy Hollow, Stravinsky, Mission: impossible, deadlines,
directors, composing style, Herrmann, Rota, Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Prokofiev,
Dead presidents, not conducting, Elmer Bernstein, Morricone, Goldsmith,
Williams, no composer's guild, Poledouris, self-taught, Pee-wee's big
adventure, Psycho (1998), ethnic, composing equipment (much),
Stefan Grapelli, Duke Ellington]
Interview with Danny Elfman,
Cinemedia Promotions, 1999.03
[A simple plan, A civil action, Instinct, Raimi, directors,
composing technique, composing style]
A different beat, L.A. Times,
1999.04.18
[deadlines, composing technique, Herrmann, style, Mission: Impossible
II, Franz Waxman, Maurice Jarre, ethnic, Boingo, A Civil Action,
Gus Van Sant, Hoofbeats, The Simpsons, Bartek (quoted), Revell
(quoted), biography]
[bluntinstrument note: this is obviously the entire source material used
for intro to Tommy Pearson's 1993 BBC interview]
[Excerpts from..], Burton
on Burton (revised edition), ed. Mark Salisbury, 1995, rev.
2000
Burton, Ed Wood, Nightmare before Christmas, Pee-wee's
big adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Mars Attacks!,
composing technique [NBC]
[Audio commentary with isolated
score], Edward Scissorhands DVD, 2000 (film released 1990)
[Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton, Pee-wee's big adventure,
Beetlejuice, Tom Jones, composing technique, Herrmann, self-taught,
leitmotif]
[Interview with Danny Elfman],
By Nuno Markl (not from Premiere?), 2000.03.04
[Anywhere but here, Jimmy Callicut, Little demons,
Edward Scissorhands ballet, The gift, Flubber, ethnic,
Burton, Sleepy Hollow, inspired-by albums]
Interview with Danny Elfman, Classical
KCSC/KBCW website, 2001.07.20
[composing technique, deadlines, Planet of the apes, ethnic, Herrmann,
Mars Attacks!, composing style, Edward Scissorhands ballet]
Danny Elfman: Mr E. Sur sa
Planete des singes, Dreams Magazine (Dreams to dreams), 2002
[Bluntinstrument note: my French is a bit risky for this. There's a stress
on Planet of the apes, but nearly all Danny's scores are at least
mentioned, as are his chief influences]
[Video interview featurette],
Red Dragon OST, 2002 [transcribed][Shore (Silence of the lambs),
Red dragon, Bernard Herrmann, Stravinsky]
Web of sound, Spider-man
2, the official movie souvenir magazine, 2004.summer
[Spider-man, Spider-man 2, Steiner, Korngold, Darkman,
(genre films), styles, Raimi, Burton, composing technique, composing sequals,
soundtrack vs CD]
Spider-Man 2 : The evil
is not dead!, Cinéfonia magazine, no.6, 2004.7?
[Spider-man, Spider-man 2, Sam Raimi] N.B. In French, with
Blunt's short explanation in English
A look into the Forbidden
Zone, interview excerpt from Forbidden Zone DVD, 2005
[Forbidden Zone, self-taught, Russian music, Pee Wee's Big Adventure,
piano concerto, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory]
[Danny Elfman interview with
Travis Smiley], PBS radio, 2005.07.14
[composing technique, biography, ethnic, self-taught, Oingo Boingo, Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, The Corpse Bride]
Mortality, Film score magazine,
2005.7/8
[Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Serenada Schizophrana (not mentioned by name but as a "concert
piece" in his timeline), Batman, Batman Begins,
Hans Zimmer, Charlotte's Web, A day in the life of Wilbur Smith,
Edward Scissorhands ballet, Spider-man 2 (alluded to not by
name), Edward Scissorhands, composing method, Tim Burton, directors,
Big Fish]
The Open Road: Danny Elfman, KCRW,
2005.08.28
[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota,
Tim Burton, Nightmare Before Christmas, view on musicals, Mystic
Knights, Oingo Boingo, self-taught, Forbidden Zone, gypsy music,
Prokofiev, Bartok, Beetlejuice, Batman, chosing projects/directors,
The Simpsons, The Corpse Bride, Charlotte's Web, A
Day in the Life of Wilbur Robinson]
Danny Elfman of Corpse Bride [Interview],
UGO.com, ca.2005.09
[Corpse Bride (inc songs and singing), Charlie, Nightmare
Before Christmas, Fable, Spider-man 2, Spider-man 3,
Sam Raimi, Tim Burton]
Chat with Danny Elfman, MSN, 2005.09.19
[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice,
favourite movies, Nightmare Before Christmas, Desperate Housewives]
Pop life, Orange County
Register, 2005.09.23
[Oingo Boingo, Tim Burton, Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas]
Self-made composer Elfman scores
big, bergen.com, 2005.09.25
[influence/plagiarism, Rota, Prokofiev, Herrmann, Corpse Bride, self-taught,
Gilbert&Sullivan, Kurt Weill]
[Suicide Girls Interview],
http://suicidegirls.com, 2005.10
[Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Tim Burton, Sam
Raimi, Jimi Jendrix, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, hearing trouble,
temp score, Ed Wood (inc details of reunion), Oingo Boingo, Back
to School, Spider-man 2, Spider-man 3, Christopher Young,
Charlotte's Web, Batman Returns (inc relative timing of BR
and Nightmare)]]
Onetime street musician sets the
tone for Hollywood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2005.10.05
[Stravinsky, Miles Davis, plays trombone, film music influences (Goldsmith,
Waxman, Tiomkin, Steiner, esp Herrmann), The Simpsons, Corpse
Bride]
Danny Elfman exposed, IGN
Filmforce, 2005.10.06
[biography, Oingo Boingo, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton, Corpse
Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]
Film composers keep their composure,
KCRW, 2006.08.27
[Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Charlotte's Web (much!), Batman,
composing technique (much!), directors, studio pressure, Shostakovich, classical
influences]
On the score with Danny Elfman,
Film Music Radio (FilmMusicMag.com), 2008.07.08
[Wanted, The Kingdom, Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Hellboy
2], sound effects, Nightbreed, Herrmann, Forbidden Zone
(colourised), Standard Operating Procedure, Milk]
Q&A: Danny Elfman,
Hollywood Reporter.com, 2008.08.14
[Wanted, Hellboy II: The Golden Army [Hellboy 2], Standard
Operating Procedure, Rabbit and Rogue, Milk, writing concert
music, Houdini, Serenada Schizophrana]
Danny Elfman Exclusive Video Interview,
Collider.com, 2008.10.27
[Nightmare Before Christmas, Milk, Notorious (hip-hop/rap
style, film on Biggie Smalls), Houdini (musical, title unverified), Cirque
du Soleil (show, possible for 2010, title unverified)]
Pammy's transcript of an interview with Richard Elfman. He talks about
Danny, but not with much committment, and this is Pammy's baby http://pampyra.tripod.com/ricktrans.htm
Article on Elfman: 'Music of the Night' by J. B. Macabre, (iv) Fear!
[a magazine] 1990.07. I do not know this magazine. The URL below is only
a reference to it http://www.locusmag.com/index/s249.html#A5116.1
KEY:
* = Taken from articles archived between 1980-1997 at http://www.boingo.com.
Took only articles specifically about Danny Elfman rather than Boingo in general.
This site focuses on his film music, and this list reflects that.
words (work in progress: please ignore): hummer, mixing, composing
equipment, composing technique, biography, ethnic, Russian music, dissonance,
styles, orchestration, leitmotif, samples vs orchestra, influence/plagiarism,
not conducting, self-taught, inspired-by albums, hearing trouble, writing concert
music
