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I hadn't noticed this. Awesome.

Probably a vinyl release of the score.

Yeah, there is definitely another theme for Strange. There's an emotional version in 'On the Run' and then a softer version immediately after in 'Strange Awakens'. Again, it's very wholesome, and doesn't really sound like a theme for Strange, but it does sound like the kind of thing Raimi would push for. There really isn't much time in the score which doesn't involve the Strange or Wanda themes, and there's a lot of fun interplay between them.

Wanda's theme plays in 'Multiverse of Madness' with kooky choir and is immediately preceded and followed by a string version. It's pretty much this theme here, from 0:50

Elfman's written a new theme for Wanda...and it's his Willy Wonka theme. Very odd, but it's developed substantially throughout the score. There's another new theme that's very wholesome - can't tell if it's a new Strange theme or for America Chavez. It feels like Elfman's loose for the first time in a while. It gets really melodramatic and also quite weird. He's getting really great notices in reviews, so it'll hopefully work great in context. I need more time with it for sure. I do miss the harpsicord/Eastern influences from the first score.

LOVE Elfman's use of Giacchino's theme in 'Battle Time'.

My favourite Elfmans of the decade were The Girl on the Train and (yes) Fifty Shades of Grey. I thought the storytelling in both was absolutely top notch. I hear a dozen new things in both each time I listen.

I think the 'Main Titles' cue is just the main on end. Elfman also called the main on end for The Girl on the Train 'Main Titles'. He sometimes likes to throw a track that's more representative of the whole score at the beginning so that the listener knows what's coming - Wanted, Real Steel, Goosebumps, or if there is no such track, he'll sometimes write one - Age of Ultron, Justice League, Tulip Fever, The Circle.

Raimi on why he wanted Elfman to score. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Director Sam Raimi Explains Why Danny Elfman Returned (comicbook.com) "I loved Michael Giacchino's Doctor Strange music and I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to work together but I need Danny Elfman by my side," Raimi tells us. "He's like my long-lost brother and he's really a storyteller. He helps me tell the story with his music, but it was wonderful. He loved the Doctor Strange theme and incorporated it into his musical score which was so funny for me because that composer incorporated some of Danny's pieces into [Spider-Man] No Way Home."

I'm guessing that this is the music Elfman was working on in February 2021 when they were shooting.

Seems like there's a theme for Wong.

Elfman's got his Coachella set tonight, the the US premiere of his percussion concerto tomorrow (he is attending), his next movie is out in two weeks (and sure to be one of the biggest movies of the year/his entire career) and then his percussion quartet is released two weeks after that. What a manic time.

Elfman briefly discusses the score here. Be warned that he kinda gives away a spoiler if you read into what he says. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/superhero-movie-scores-in-the-age-of-the-antihero/

Hard to make out most of it, but the start definitely sounds like Elfman.

I might be completely misinterpreting, but this sounds/reads like Heyman is talking about his work on Potter as opposed to Fantastic Beasts 3.

Sound clips from Elfman's Percussion Quartet, out next month. https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/perspectives/

Justice League, Endgame and now No Way Home all quote older themes, but they're all so buried in the mix/orchestration that you wouldn't know they're there. I wonder if that's the deal these days.

The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, both Guardians movies and Black Widow have main titles sequences.

Hoping for an opening credits sequence to let Elfman run loose. MCU movies tend not to have them, but there have been notable exceptions.

Video recap of last week's concert. There's footage of all four movements of the concerto.

Elfman was almost bald 12 years ago. Not sure luck has much to do with it....

The Alice suite that he's been using in concerts is the full version of 'Alice's Theme' which then transitions into 2:45 onwards of 'Alice'. The 'Alice' suite is actually another suite for Alice in Wonderland, not Alice Through the Looking Glass. He wrote it for the Royal Albert Hall live-to-projection performance in 2015. At this point, Elfman was writing the score for the sequel, so he recorded that new suite for the secondary material in the first movie and added it to the sequel's CD.

I was there too and my initial reaction is that I prefer it to the violin concerto (which I like very much!). It followed the same broad structure of his violin concerto (1st and 4th movements are more classical, in the 2nd movement he allows himself to get a bit silly at times and the 3rd movement is more sombre). I think the shorter runtime helped the whole thing feel more assured. As someone who is still quite new to the classical scene, I was taken by how entertaining it was, which I'm sure is what he's going for. The audience reaction and the chat I heard afterwards seemed to be very positive. It'll be hard to hear Batman on CD again after that performance, though. It'd be nice to have a recording of that suite at some point (along with many of the other Elfman/Burton suites). Here's a video of Currie talking about the concerto.