Courtesy of Film Music Reporter: Sony Classical to Release Danny Elfman’s ‘Rabbit & Rogue’ Ballet Score
Sony Classical will release Danny Elfman‘s music for the ballet Rabbit & Rogue. The composer of such films as Spider-Man, Batman, Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Men in Black composed the score for the American Ballet Theatre. The ballet premiered in June 2008 at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and was recorded for a CD release in 2014. The album will be released on June 7, 2016. Check out a video featurette about the composer’s work on the project from a couple years ago after the jump.
Incidentally Danny's writing his second ballet now. Also, he has a violin concerto in January (involving Sandy Cameron who anyone who saw the Burton/Elfman concert will remember).
Plus Lokutus and I'm sure a few others thought Elfman’s ‘Rabbit & Rogue’ deserved it's own thread. Anyways it was my fault I should've taken this route in the first place.
I'm pretty sure Shaun is joking! He posted the exact opposite of his comment in the older thread.
He wrote: "Nice! Why is this buried in this old thread?"
And lonzoe1, I was actually just about to start a new thread about this when I saw that you had already done it. Thanks! I don't read filmmusic reporter, and I wouldn't have read about this otherwise.
I've been waiting for this too. It only took 8 years!?!
So with this release, the entirety of his non-film music music (Serenada,Iris,Rabbit) will finally be on record with the only exception being his Overeager Overture.
He talked back in 2007 about doing one non-film music thing per year but I guess that never came to be. Maybe all the concerts distracted him.
Happy to finally see this out. I wonder if it's a real orchestra or a Hollywood studio group. It was clear that they got Serenada done by selling it to the Deep Sea 3D IMAX folks. Inasmuch, I wonder who financed this recording.
I've been waiting for this too. It only took 8 years!?!
So with this release, the entirety of his non-film music music (Serenada,Iris,Rabbit) will finally be on record with the only exception being his Overeager Overture.
Not quite. There are several other non-film/TV music things unreleased beyond the "Overeager Overture": The two unrealized musicals JIMMY CALLICUT and LITTLE DEMONS, the puppet play THE FORTUNE TELLER, PUPPET MASTERPIECE THEATER: THE CIRCUS , MYSTIC MANOR, HOUDINI (rejected) as well as the early PIANO CONCERTO 2 1/2. And then there are the upcoming works, like the second ballet and the violin concerto -- as previously mentioned.
I've been hoping for a release of this--Elfman's concert work is the most interesting stuff he's doing as far as I'm concerned. I saw the (original?) performance of this piece and the music is terrific.
Rumors of Prague, although I came across it on a London trumpeter player's credits page, so there might be hope it was recorded there. There aren't a lot of brass players around that can give his music justice...
