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I missed out on this, so I'm all over it.

Old featurette of Elfman for Spider-Man 2. I remember seeing this around the release of the movie. Haven't seen it in almost 20 (!) years.

Live performance of Elfman's piano quartet.

Howard Shore apparently loved Desplat's work on Godzilla.

I'm 95% sure Powell is one of the two composers Elfman is working with to create a new classical work called 'Trio': three composers writing for solo violin (Sandy Cameron), solo voice and piano.

From the Amazon preorder links: PERCUSSION CONCERTO Percussion has always been an important part of my life. Beginning in my travels though West Africa when I was 18 years old, when I began collecting and learning to play ‘balafons’ (kind of like the African version of a marimba), and through my years of playing in metal-based Indonesian Gamalan ensembles in my twenties, as well as building my own strange metal and wood percussion ensembles in my early theatrical performance years, it has always been a lifelong obsession. Shortly after we premiered my first violin concerto, I had a chance meeting with percussionist Colin Currie in London. We decided it could be great fun to create a piece together. I was excited to plunge into the challenge of another concerto while at the same time to really go back to my roots with wood and metal, mallets and sticks and hands. I also knew Colin was an extraordinary musician who would be great to collaborate with. And I was aware that there were far fewer concertos for percussion then the more obvious piano, violin, cello, etc, and that meant there were far fewer models to guide me which made the idea of a percussion concerto far more enticing. Wunderkammer It was just before the pandemic when I was in London working on a film score, and my publisher suggested I meet the NYOGB (The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain) as they had expressed interest in the possibility of doing a commission. At first I was skeptical about the idea of a youth orchestra, but I decided to attend a performance they were giving. I was, to say the least, blown away by how good they were. I decided on the spot that I would indeed find a way to write a piece for them. So I jumped into the composition that’s now called Wunderkammer. My original intentions was to create something that was very challenging for them, as I knew they were up for that, and something that would also be fun and exciting for them to dig into which might feature different instrument sections throughout to give everyone a moment to shine. A Wunderkammer (or “wonder room”) is a cabinet of curiosities or even a room of mystery and oddities which can be fun, or scary, intriguing or instructive, but never boring! And that’s just what I was hoping to bring to the NYOGB with Wunderkammer. ARE YOU LOST? My first concerto was written for violinist Sandy Cameron. She had been besieging me for ages to write a duet for violin and voice. I finally relented on the condition that we add a piano and make it a trio. While talking about the project with two composer friends we all decided to write for the same trio for a collaborative project which will be called, appropriately, “Trio”. When I began discussing the possibility of recording the concerto and Wunderkammer with Sony Classical they suggested that I include something that had never been performed. It was then I decided to take one of the 4 moments I’d written for “Trio” and to both expand and adapt it for choir and full orchestra. Thus, the origins of “Are You Lost?”

Soundtrack to be released by WaterTower Music.

This is available for me to listen now. I'm guessing since it's after 12am here.

Roger posted a link to this track on Facebook. CD1 39 Boone And Decker Duke It Out.wav (dropbox.com)

CD release please....

The opening movement of Elfman's percussion concerto was uploaded to Youtube 9 hours ago, but it's not available yet. This is presumably following the release pattern for his violin concerto which uploaded the third movement as a 'promo' track of sorts. Sony Classical will be releasing the album, which also features Wunderkammer.

I'm happy for us and the terrific music we'll be getting, but I'm just delighted for Young, who has effectively been shut out of Hollywood, seeing how many people enjoy his music. Nobody (or hardly anyone) has seen the film with his music, but so many wanted to own what he wrote for it. I hope he's moved; I'm sure he is.

I had to buy another copy of this because I broke the second disc when I tried to get it out.... Anyway, I got it today, and lo and behold, the electric guitar is removed from 'Market Fight'. Maybe you're on to something, @Edmilson

All of Clive Barker's Midian is unleashed on Intrada's deluxe edition of Danny Elfman's NIGHTBREED! - ON THE SCORE

Odd that, like with Sheffer's handful of cues in Lalaland's release of Darkman, they haven't credited Shirley Walker for her big cue for this. Especially weird given that Elfman spoke publicly about their contributions and got them the biggest 'additional music by' credits known to man. Release looks awesome, though!

It's picked up a bit of pace in the last few days.

I'm new to it, too, but I believe you aren't charged unless the project is successful. I haven't been charged yet.

Not convinced I can afford this, but Amazon don't charge until dispatch so I've preordered. We'll see how the next month goes.

This and Hellboy II being released so close to each other is super fun because I've always thought of them as sibling scores and films.

Colin Currie posted last week that Elfman 'took a break from scoring Beetlejuice 2' to join him for a performance of his concerto. He started writing the score in October, so he's been on it for quite some time. Trailer is out this coming week.