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Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since scoring his first studio film in 1985, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall. Elfman has frequently worked with directors Tim Burton, Sam Raimi, and Gus Van Sant, contributing music to nearly 20 Burton projects, including Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, and Alice in Wonderland, as well as scoring Raimi's Darkman, A Simple Plan, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Van Sant's Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. He wrote music for all of the Men in Black and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise films, the songs and score for Henry Selick's animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the themes for the popular television series Desperate Housewives and The Simpsons. Among his honours are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy, seven Saturn Awards for Best Music, the 2002 Richard Kirk Award, the 2015 Disney Legend Award, the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award in 2017, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danny Elfman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Like Fantasia 2000, there will be celebrities giving introductions to certain segments. Here's what I think could happen: During Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" there will be angels and Pegasuses; During Mozart's "Symphony No. 40" a young man and woman go ice skating at Rockefeller Center or a frozen lake and a shady skater tries to grab the girl for himself and the hero challenges the adversary to a skate-off; Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train" will show musicians taking the actual A Train and they use the magic of music to overcome the chaos on the streets of Harlem; there will be the prematurely created "Little Match Girl" short film; the "Lorenzo" short film; the Mickey Mouse short film, "Springtime"; "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" as always; "Swan Lake" or "The Planets" starring Goofy; And maybe Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" which will feature the forests of Yellowstone (with Humphrey the Bear making a cameo).
