Danny Elfman

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896 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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And we were getting great audiences.
And I remember thinking, looking out there and going, I wish I could pull them into classical.
Okay.
I don't know.
I just know that's who I'm trying to reach.
I try to write music that is simple enough for someone who listens to film music to get pulled into it, but complex enough for someone who listens to classical music to not feel like I'm writing down.
Because it's easy to write down on a classical... But you understand what I'm asking.
I mean, I'm getting— Well, the answer must be no, because— I'm getting commissions still.
Okay.
Okay, that's fair.
So it's kind of yes, starting to.
Yeah.
We played a week at Lincoln Center with the Elfman Burton Show.
Okay.
I mean, that's no small gig.
We had a—
somebody from because we were at the lincoln center from the opera uh down and afterwards he said to our conductor he goes i'd kill to get this audience into our room because it was very vibrant it was a younger crowd it was a vibrant audience they were enthusiastic and you're right the classical audience yeah the gray hair is getting
There's part of them that was like, yes, I'd love to tap into them and pull some of their audience in.
On the other hand, they're like, no, this isn't what modern music sounds like.
Modern music sounds like this.
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