132-430: 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
264-618: 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. Elfman was born on May 29, 1953, in Los Angeles, California to a Jewish family of Russian descent. He is a son of Blossom Elfman (née Bernstein),
396-483: A cut of the film, and occasionally from visits to the set while the film is in production (he wrote and orchestrated his theme for Batman on an airplane to Los Angeles after visiting the set in London). While he prefers not to work from script, story or concept, exceptions include The Nightmare Before Christmas , for which ten songs needed to be written in advance of filmmaking, and Dumbo , for which he composed
528-501: A heavy metal and rock-dominated format. In a December 1982 Gallup poll , 14% of teenagers rated new wave as their favorite type of music, making it the third-most-popular genre. New wave had its greatest popularity on the West Coast. Unlike other genres, race was not a factor in the popularity of new wave music, according to the poll. Urban contemporary radio stations were the first to play dance-oriented new wave bands such as
660-476: A "junkyard orchestra" built from car parts and trash cans. The Mystic Knights performed on the street and in theaters, and later in nightclubs throughout Los Angeles until Richard left in 1976 to pursue filmmaking. As a send-off to the group's original concept, Richard produced the film Forbidden Zone based on the Mystic Knights' stage performances. Elfman composed the songs and his first score for
792-570: A career-spanning relationship with Burton, scoring all but three of the director's major studio releases. Highlights include Edward Scissorhands (1990), Batman Returns (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). In 1993, Elfman wrote the score and ten songs for the Burton-produced stop motion animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas , directed by Henry Selick , and also provided
924-535: A cause for students and teacher complaints. Past articles in the Wildcat addressed not only the disruption to students, but how the money made from the constant filming is spent. Editorials have complained about the portion of the money that goes to the LAUSD, and the way the money is spent by the school. University High charges the standard district fee for each day of filming (currently $ 2,500). A portion of
1056-1278: A compilation of 23 remixes of songs on the album Big Mess by artists including Reznor, Iggy Pop , Blixa Bargeld , Squarepusher , Boy Harsher and more. Elfman has said his major influences are composers from Hollywood's Golden Age , such as Bernard Herrmann , Dimitri Tiomkin , Max Steiner , David Tamkin , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , and Carl Stalling ; 20th century classical composers Sergei Prokofiev , Igor Stravinsky , Béla Bartók , Dmitri Shostakovich , and Carl Orff ; and jazz , experimental and minimalist composers Kurt Weill , Duke Ellington , Harry Partch , Philip Glass , Lou Harrison , Terry Riley , and Steve Reich . Influences on specific scores include Erik Satie ( Forbidden Zone ), Nino Rota ( Pee-wee's Big Adventure ), George Gershwin ( Dick Tracy ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( Edward Scissorhands ), and Jimi Hendrix ( Dead Presidents ). Though not considered direct influences per se , Elfman has discussed his respect and admiration for film composers Jerry Goldsmith , Ennio Morricone , Thomas Newman , Alexandre Desplat and John Williams , as well as classical composer John Adams . Though many believe Richard Wagner informed his influential score to Batman , Elfman has said it
1188-653: A composer makes to the movies. Pastiche of Herrmann's music can be heard in Elfman's Pee-wee's Big Adventure , especially the cues "Stolen Bike" and "Clown Dream", which directly reference Herrmann's music from Psycho and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad respectively. His score to Batman makes more subtle nods to Herrmann's Journey to the Center of the Earth and Vertigo , and more integral homage can be heard in later scores for Mars Attacks! and Hitchcock , as well as
1320-870: A distinctive visual style in music videos and fashion. According to Simon Reynolds , new wave music had a twitchy, agitated feel. New wave musicians often played choppy rhythm guitars with fast tempos; keyboards, and stop-start song structures and melodies are common. Reynolds noted new-wave vocalists sound high-pitched, geeky, and suburban. As new wave originated in Britain, many of the first new wave artists were British. These bands became popular in America, in part, because of channels like MTV, which would play British new wave music videos because most American hit records did not have music videos to play. British videos, according to head of S-Curve Records and music producer Steve Greenberg , "were easy to come by since they'd been
1452-436: A diverse mix of students from its enrollment area and various parts of the city; on top of Westside neighborhoods, Uni draws students from areas such as Koreatown and South Los Angeles . The school also enrolls many Capacity Adjustment Program students which come from areas zoned to heavily overcrowded high schools. Two new LAUSD high schools opened in fall 2005, four more in fall 2006, and one more in fall 2007, decreasing
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#17327978415981584-496: A false birthplace of Amarillo, Texas , and parents in the United States Air Force . In his early school days, Elfman exhibited an aptitude for science with almost no interest in music, and was even rejected from elementary school orchestra "for having no propensity for music." This would change when he switched high schools in the late 1960s and fell in with a musical crowd, who introduced him to early jazz and
1716-413: A new pop group. That's all." According to Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy, authors of Popular Music Genres: an Introduction , the "height of popularity for new wave" coincided with the election of Margaret Thatcher in spring 1979. In the early 1980s, new wave gradually lost its associations with punk in popular perception among some Americans. Writing in 1989, music critic Bill Flanagan said; "Bit by bit
1848-519: A post-punk/new wave revival" while arguing it was "really more analogous to a continuum, one that could be traced back as early as the mid-'80s". University High School (Los Angeles) University High School Charter , commonly known as "Uni", is a public secondary school, built 1923–1924, and founded 1924, located in West Los Angeles , a district in Los Angeles , California , near the city's border with Santa Monica . University High
1980-532: A range of West African percussion instruments until a series of illnesses forced him to return home. At this time, Richard was forming a new musical theater group in Los Angeles. After returning to Los Angeles from Africa in the early 1970s, Elfman was asked by his brother Richard to serve as musical director of his street theatre performance art troupe The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo . Elfman
2112-654: A series of five sold-out final concerts at the Universal Amphitheatre ending on Halloween night. On October 31, 2015, Elfman and Oingo Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek performed the song "Dead Man's Party" with an orchestra as an encore to a live-to-film concert of The Nightmare Before Christmas score at the Hollywood Bowl . Elfman told the audience the performance was "20 years to the day" of Oingo Boingo's retirement. As fans of Oingo Boingo , Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write
2244-468: A staple of UK pop music TV programs like Top of the Pops since the mid-70s." This rise in technology made the visual style of new wave musicians important for their success. A nervous, nerdy persona was a common characteristic of new wave fans, and acts such as Talking Heads , Devo , and Elvis Costello . This took the forms of robotic dancing, jittery high-pitched vocals, and clothing fashions that hid
2376-721: A stigma—especially in the United States—that made the music virtually unmarketable. At the same time, a number of bands, such as the Cars , the Police and Elvis Costello and the Attractions , soon emerged who combined the energy and rebellious attitude of punk with a more accessible and sophisticated radio-friendly sound. These groups were lumped together and marketed exclusively under the label of new wave. As early as 1973, critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh were using
2508-433: A very traditional and dignified appearance, with weathered brick and arched doorways, such that the campus is popular with film crews (see #Filming on campus ). One-third of its class of 1942 did not graduate because of the internment of Japanese-Americans . In fall 2007, some neighborhoods zoned to have their students to attend Hamilton High School were rezoned to University High School. In 2009, Mitchell Landsberg of
2640-564: A writer and teacher, and Milton Elfman, a teacher, and the brother of actor, musician, and journalist Richard Elfman . Elfman was raised in an affluent, racially-mixed community in Baldwin Hills, California , where he spent much of his time at the local movie theater discovering classic sci-fi , fantasy and horror films and first noticed the music of such film composers as Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman . Elfman has admitted to fabricating stories about his past out of boredom, including
2772-495: Is credited to the Assistant Principal who is responsible for the filming on campus. In November 2006, Drillbit Taylor , starring Owen Wilson began filming at Uni. As of April 2007, the $ 90,000 received for this production is the most that the school has made on an individual filming contract. Uni underwent massive renovations in order to prepare for the filming of Drillbit Taylor . The interior and exterior of
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#17327978415982904-604: Is named in honor of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), of Pasadena, California , the first African American professional baseball player in Major League Baseball , playing in 1947-1956 for the Brooklyn Dodgers , who also previously attended nearby UCLA, 1939-1940. Uni is one of a very few pre- World War II high schools in Los Angeles whose buildings have been at least partially spared by three major earthquakes since its inception. The main building presents
3036-572: Is not necessary to utilize the District’s permit process if accepted to an Affiliated Charter School. It is a community school that welcomes students from all over Los Angeles. However, non-resident students are required to complete this Unified Enrollment application . The school, which has been able to maintain much of its original architecture, is one of the few Los Angeles schools with buildings constructed before World War II. Its brick facades, wide hallways, and "unique east coast look" make
3168-750: Is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The campus also holds Indian Springs Continuation High School. The school contains the Tongva Sacred Springs , a sacred site of the Tongva–Gabrieleño native people and a registered California Historical Landmark . While under construction it was known as Sawtelle High School , but it opened as Warren G. Harding High School when completed in 1924, after 29th President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923, served 1921-1923), who had recently died. The school
3300-589: The Los Angeles Times stated that the school was "struggling to regain its reputation as a center of excellence". That year, as part of a grant program, the Academy of Engineering was established at the high school. For the entire 88-year history of University High, the football/baseball field had been without stadium lights until they were installed in the Spring of 2012. Located on Uni's campus are
3432-761: The Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, and a performance by the Reno Chamber Orchestra in October 2024. In 2008, Elfman accepted his first commission for the stage, composing the music for Twyla Tharp 's Rabbit and Rogue ballet, co-commissioned by American Ballet Theatre and Orange County Performing Arts Center and premiering on June 3, 2008, at the Metropolitan Opera House , Lincoln Center . Other works for stage include
3564-604: The American Society of Newspaper Editors The Worrier was an underground student newspaper that began in 1966. At least seven Worrier staff members were transferred to other high schools, suspended or put on probation. The Red Tide was an underground campus newspaper that expressed far-left opinions on the Vietnam War , racism, and women's issues. Its first issue appeared in November 1971. Following
3696-506: The Los Angeles City High School District until 1961, when it merged into LAUSD. Music classes have been moved to another unused room near the top of the school. The gym was still in use while, on the south end of the campus, in what was formerly a student parking lot, a new gym facility was under construction in 2010. The current football stadium, last rebuilt following the 1994 Northridge earthquake ,
3828-547: The MasterClass online educational series released "Making Music out of Chaos," presenting 21 compositional and career lessons from Elfman's four decades of experience primarily in the film industry . Elfman scored the 10-minute video "Joe Biden," which introduced Joe Biden 's acceptance of the presidential candidacy nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention . On November 16, 2021, Disney Branded Television announced that Elfman would compose score and songs of
3960-533: The New Romantic movement. In 1981, Rolling Stone contrasted the movement with the previous new wave era, writing that "the natty Anglo-dandies of Japan ", having been "reviled in the New Wave era", seemed "made to order for the age of the clothes-conscious New Romantic bands." MTV continued its heavy rotation of videos by "post-New Wave pop" acts "with a British orientation" until 1987, when it changed to
4092-707: The Tim Burton exhibition at MoMA in 2009. In the 1990s, Elfman composed music for advertising campaigns for Nike , Nissan and Lincoln-Mercury , and in 2002 wrote the music for Honda 's "Power of Dreams" advertising campaign, which was the first cinema commercial to be shot in the IMAX format. In 2013 he composed the music and provided the English-language vocals for the Hong Kong Disneyland attraction Mystic Manor . On October 31, 2019,
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4224-452: The Tongva Sacred Springs , California Historical Landmark #522. The springs, called "Kuruvungna" by the native Gabrieleno Tongva people, were used as a source of natural fresh water by the Tongva people since 400 BC , and they continue to produce 22,000-25,000 gallons of water a day. The springs are found at two separate locations on campus. The larger is now closed off from the rest of
4356-517: The big band , blues -infused music for Martin Brest 's buddy cop action film Midnight Run . In 1989, Elfman's influential, Grammy -winning score for Burton's Batman marked a major stylistic shift to dark, densely orchestrated music in the romantic idiom. This continued in his scores for Warren Beatty 's Dick Tracy , Sam Raimi 's Darkman and Clive Barker 's Nightbreed , all released in 1990. With Batman , Elfman firmly established
4488-596: The miniseries When We Rise co-composed with Chris Bacon , and themes for the Netflix series Wednesday . He has composed music for animated shorts, including Sally Cruikshank 's Face Like A Frog and Tim Burton's "Stainboy" internet series. Elfman provided background music for Luigi Serafini 's solo exhibition il Teatro della Pittura at the Fondazione Mudima di Milano in Milan, Italy in 1998 and for
4620-614: The music press as a "reaction against the opulence/corpulence of nouveau rich New Pop" and "part of the move back to guitar-driven music after the keyboard washes of the New Romantics". In the aftermath of grunge , the British music press launched a campaign to promote the new wave of new wave that involved overtly punk and new-wave-influenced acts such as Elastica , but it was eclipsed by Britpop , which took influences from both 1960s rock and 1970s punk and new wave. During
4752-497: The score for their first feature film Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985. Elfman was initially apprehensive because of his lack of formal training and having never scored a studio feature , but after Burton accepted his initial demo of the title music , and with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek , Elfman completed the score to great effect, paying homage to influential film composers Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann . Elfman described
4884-836: The "Blue Strings" movement of his first concert work Serenada Schizophrana . While Elfman is primarily known for writing large-scale orchestral works in the romantic, 20th century and Hollywood Golden Age film score traditions, his compositions have used a wide range of idioms, including rock and blues ( Midnight Run , Hot to Trot ), big band and jazz ( Dick Tracy , Chicago ), operetta ( The Nightmare Before Christmas , Corpse Bride ), funk and hip hop ( Dead Presidents , Notorious ), folk and indie rock ( Taking Woodstock , Silver Linings Playbook ), Americana ( Article 99 , Sommersby , Big Fish ), minimalism ( Good Will Hunting , Standard Operating Procedure , The Unknown Known ), and atonal or experimental ( Freeway , A Simple Plan , The Girl on
5016-473: The 1800s, the spring served as the water supply for the city of Santa Monica . Construction at the school in 1925 unearthed evidence of a Native American village, and in 1975, a grave was discovered from what archaeologists now believe to be a burial site. In 1980, Indian Springs Continuation High School, which is housed on the part of the campus where the springs are, was opened. In 1992, tribal descendants, community members, and teachers and students from
5148-559: The 1940s when a local water company began drawing from the aquifer. The Portolá Expedition of 1769 , one of the two expeditions that led to the founding of Los Angeles, camped at the Kuruvunga village while travelling along the route that would become known as El Camino Real . The name Serra comes from Father Junípero Serra the founder of the Alta California mission chain, who is reported to have said Mass to there. In
5280-545: The 1960s mod influences of the Jam . Paul Weller , who called new wave "the pop music of the Seventies", explained to Chas de Whalley in 1977: It's just pop music and that's why I like it. It's all about hooks and guitar riffs. That's what the new wave is all about. It's not heavy and negative like all that Iggy and New York stuff. The new wave is today's pop music for today's kids, it's as simple as that. And you can count
5412-528: The 1980s, rejecting potentially more lucrative careers from signing to a major label. In the UK, new wave "survived through the post-punk years, but after the turn of the decade found itself overwhelmed by the more outrageous style of the New Romantics." In response, many British indie bands adopted "the kind of jangling guitar work that had typified New Wave music", with the arrival of the Smiths characterised by
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5544-513: The 1980s, said in a 2011 interview that by the time of British new pop acts' popularity on MTV, "New Wave had already been over by then. New wave was not synth music; it wasn't even this sort of funny-haircut music. It was the guy in the Boomtown Rats wearing pajamas." Similarly in Britain, journalists and music critics largely abandoned the term "new wave" with the rise of synth-pop. According to authors Stuart Borthwick and Ron Moy, "After
5676-422: The 2000s, a number of acts that exploited a diversity of new wave and post-punk influences emerged. These acts were sometimes labeled "New New Wave". According to British music journalist Chris Nickson , Scottish band Franz Ferdinand revived both Britpop and the music of the late 1970s "with their New Wave influenced sound". AllMusic notes the emergence of these acts "led journalists and music fans to talk about
5808-622: The 2010s, Elfman incorporated established musical themes with his own original thematic material, including the DC Extended Universe 's Justice League , The Grinch , Dumbo and Men in Black International . Elfman was featured in the 2016 documentary Score , in which he appeared among over 50 film composers to discuss the craft of movie music and influential figures in the business. Elfman's first piece of original concert music, Serenada Schizophrana ,
5940-616: The B-52's , Culture Club , Duran Duran, and ABC . New wave soundtracks were used in mainstream Brat Pack films such as Sixteen Candles , Pretty in Pink , and The Breakfast Club , as well as in the low-budget hit Valley Girl . John Hughes , the director of several of these films, was enthralled with British new wave music, and placed songs from acts such as the Psychedelic Furs , Simple Minds , Orchestral Manoeuvres in
6072-989: The Czech National Symphony Orchestra; the Piano Quartet , co-commissioned by the Lied Center for Performing Arts University of Nebraska and the Berlin Philharmonic Piano Quartet, which premiered February 6, 2018, in Lincoln, Nebraska ; and the Percussion Quartet , commissioned by Third Coast Percussion and premiered at the Philip Glass Days And Nights Festival in Big Sur on October 10, 2019. 2022 saw
6204-635: The Dark , and Echo and the Bunnymen in his films, helping to keep new wave in the mainstream. Several of these songs remain standards of the era. Critics described the MTV acts of the period as shallow or vapid. Homophobic slurs were used to describe some of the new wave musicians. Despite the criticism, the danceable quality of the music and the quirky fashion sense associated with new wave musicians appealed to audiences. Peter Ivers , who started his career in
6336-726: 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 honors are four Oscar nominations, three Emmy Awards ,
6468-448: The Jam as "British New Wave at its most quintessential and successful", remarked that the band broke up "just as British pop was being overrun by the preposterous leisurewear and over-budgeted videos of Culture Club, Duran Duran and ABC, all of which were anathema to the puritanical Weller ." Scholar Russ Bestley noted that while punk, new wave, and post-punk songs had featured on the Top of
6600-548: The Modern Lovers debuted even earlier. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal , referring to the first show by Television at his club in March 1974, said; "I think of that as the beginning of new wave". Many musicians who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A 1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name ( New Wave ) includes American bands Dead Boys , Ramones , Talking Heads , and
6732-533: The Police, and the Cars charted during this period. " My Sharona ", a single from the Knack , was Billboard magazine's number-one single of 1979; its success, combined with new wave albums being much cheaper to produce during the music industry's worst slump in decades, prompted record companies to sign new wave groups. At the end of 1979, Dave Marsh wrote in Time that the Knack's success confirmed rather than began
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#17327978415986864-496: The Pops album series between mid-1977 and early 1982, by the time of the first Now That's What I Call Music! compilation in 1983 punk and new wave was "largely dead and buried as a commercial force". New wave was closely tied to punk, and came and went more quickly in the UK and Western Europe than in the US. At the time punk began, it was a major phenomenon in the UK and a minor one in the US. When new wave acts started being noticed in
6996-631: The Runaways . Between 1976 and 1977, the terms "new wave" and "punk" were used somewhat interchangeably. Music historian Vernon Joynson said new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, when many bands began disassociating themselves from punk. That year, the term gained currency when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin' Glue , and music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express . In November 1976, Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLaren's term "new wave" to designate music by bands that were not exactly punk but were related to
7128-601: The Time of COVID", "Kick Me", "True", and a reworking of the Oingo Boingo song "Insects" from the album Nothing to Fear . This culminated with the release of the double album Big Mess on June 11. Featuring 18 original songs, this was Elfman's first solo studio album since 1984's So-Lo . On August 11, 2021, Elfman released a remix of "True" with lead vocals shared between Elfman and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor . A year later, Elfman released Bigger Messier ,
7260-778: The Train ). Given his appreciation and study of world music and his vast collection of instruments from non-Western cultures, Elfman will often use traditional instruments in his scores when there is an international setting, such as African percussion for Instinct , the oud for The Kingdom set in Saudi Arabia , and pan flute for Proof of Life set in South America. When working on films with established musical identifiers, Elfman will often incorporate original themes in addition to his own thematic material. Examples include Lalo Schifrin 's main theme and "The Plot" from
7392-405: The UK. In early 1978, XTC released the single " This Is Pop " as a direct response to tags such as "new wave". Songwriter Andy Partridge later stated of bands such as themselves who were given those labels; "Let's be honest about this. This is pop, what we're playing ... don't try to give it any fancy new names, or any words that you've made up, because it's blatantly just pop music. We were
7524-454: The US, the term "punk" meant little to mainstream audiences, and it was common for rock clubs and discos to play British dance mixes and videos between live sets by American guitar acts. Illustrating the varied meanings of "new wave" in the UK and the US, Collins recalled how growing up in the 1970s he considered the Photos , who released one album in 1980 before splitting up a year later, as
7656-778: The United States. Since 2015, Elfman has appeared regularly in a Hollywood Bowl Halloween concert featuring full orchestra performing the Nightmare Before Christmas score live to the film projection. Elfman made his Coachella debut on April 16, 2022, with Danny Elfman: From Boingo to Batman to Big Mess to Beyond! The concert, postponed from Coachella 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, featured Elfman's film and television music arranged for band, orchestra and choir, as well as songs from his solo album Big Mess and new arrangements of songs from his Oingo Boingo catalogue. Conducted by Steve Bartek , and featuring Elfman (vocals, guitar, percussion), Wes Borland (guitar), Stu Brooks (bass), Nili Brosh (guitar), and Josh Freese (drums),
7788-403: The acts on which reflected a wide variety of stylistic influences. New wave's legacy remained in the large influx of acts from the UK, and acts that were popular in rock discos, as well as the chart's name, which reflects the way new wave was marketed as "modern". According to Steve Graves, new wave's indie spirit was crucial to the development of college rock and grunge / alternative rock in
7920-428: The bands that do it well and are going to last on one hand. The Pistols , The Damned , The Clash , The Ramones – and The Jam. Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself artistic philosophy, the musicians were more influenced by the light strains of 1960s pop while opposed to mainstream "corporate" rock , which they considered creatively stagnant, and the generally abrasive and political bents of punk rock. In
8052-464: The body such as suits and big glasses. This seemed radical to audiences accustomed to post-counterculture genres such as disco dancing and macho " cock rock " that emphasized a "hang loose" philosophy, open sexuality, and sexual bravado. New wave may be seen as an attempt to reconcile "the energy and rebellious attitude of punk" with traditional forms of pop songwriting, as seen in the rockabilly riffs and classic craftsmanship of Elvis Costello and
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#17327978415988184-412: The campus and is under the care of the Gabrielino/Tongva Springs Foundation. Prior to its being fenced off, the area surrounding the springs and pond into which its waters feed was popular among the students as a place to meet and relax. The other spring is located on the northeastern edge of the so-called Girls' Field. A third spring was located farther north, near Texas Avenue, but it ceased to flow during
8316-450: 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
8448-532: The concert was expanded for two shows Halloween weekend 2022 at the Hollywood Bowl . In addition to his music for film, Elfman also penned themes for the television series The Simpsons , Tales from the Crypt , The Flash and Desperate Housewives , which won Elfman his first Emmy. He also adapted his original themes for the animated versions of Batman and Beetlejuice . Occasional forays into serial television include episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Amazing Stories and Pee-wee's Playhouse ,
8580-424: The contrast between "the American audience's lack of interest in New Wave music" compared to critics, with a "stunning two-thirds of the Top 30 acts" in the 1978 Pazz & Jop poll falling into the "New Wave-to-rock 'n' roll revivalist spectrum". A month later, the same columnist called Elvis Costello the "Best Shot of the New Wave" in America, speculating that "If New Wave is to take hold here, it will be through
8712-602: The district's annual film revenue doubled to $ 1 million. In 2005, LAUSD officials revised the district's fee structure for the first time since 1992. The revision included extending a full day of shooting from 14 to 15 hours, and a daily rate increase from $ 1,700 to $ 2,500. Uni has been noted in the press as being one of the more popular schools for filming, even compared to other local schools with similar structure and appearance. Between 2001 and 2003, 38 movies, TV shows and commercials were filmed at University High. This popularity, with both its positive and negative impacts,
8844-532: The early 1980s, particularly in the United States, notable new wave acts embraced a crossover of pop and rock music with African and African-American styles. Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow , both acts with ties to former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren , used Burundi -style drumming. Talking Heads' album Remain in Light was marketed and positively reviewed as a breakthrough melding of new wave and African styles, although drummer Chris Frantz said he found out about this supposed African influence after
8976-436: The early 1980s. The common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, angular guitar riffs, jerky rhythms, the use of electronics, and a distinctive visual style in fashion. In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop and rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave" in the United States. Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself philosophy,
9108-403: The efforts of those furthest from the punk center" due to "inevitable" American middle class resistance to the "jarring rawness of New Wave and its working-class angst." Starting in late 1978 and continuing into 1979, acts associated with punk and acts that mixed punk with other genres began to make chart appearances and receive airplay on rock stations and rock discos. Blondie , Talking Heads,
9240-513: The entire New Wave." Lee Ferguson, a consultant to KWST , said in an interview Los Angeles radio stations were banning disc jockeys from using the term and noted; "Most of the people who call music new wave are the ones looking for a way not to play it". Second albums by new wave musicians who had successful debut albums, along with newly signed musicians, failed to sell and stations pulled most new wave programming, such as Devo's socially critical but widely misunderstood song " Whip It ". In 1981,
9372-410: The fact. As the decade continued, new wave elements would be adopted by African-American musicians such as Grace Jones , Janet Jackson , and Prince , who in particular used new wave influences to lay the groundwork for the Minneapolis sound . The Velvet Underground have also been heralded for their influence on new wave, post-punk and alternative rock . Roxy Music were also influential to
9504-523: The film, and appeared as the character Satan , who performs a reworked version of Calloway's " Minnie the Moocher ." Before the release of Forbidden Zone , Elfman took over the Mystic Knights as lead singer-songwriter in 1976. In 1979, he pared the group down to eight players to record and tour as a ska -influenced new wave band. That summer, the group's name would change to Oingo Boingo . Their biggest success among eight studio albums penned by Elfman
9636-442: The filmmakers, Elfman begins to compose anywhere from 60 to 120 minutes of music cue-by-cue. He says two of the most important things to capture at this point are the tone of each scene and editorial rhythm. Next to thematic development, action set pieces tend to take Elfman the most time given the complexity of timing music to action. Early in his career, he wrote out his scores using pencil, but has composed largely digitally since
9768-758: The first performances of three concert works. Elfman's Cello Concerto for Gautier Capuçon was premiered by the Vienna Symphony on March 18, with subsequent performances by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in May and the San Francisco Symphony US premiere in November. Elfman's Percussion Concerto for Colin Currie premiered on March 25 at London's Royal Festival Hall with London Philharmonic Orchestra , and
9900-490: The first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life. Following Pee Wee's Big Adventure , Elfman scored a string of comedies in the late 1980s, including Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield , Burton's Beetlejuice and the Bill Murray film Scrooged . Non-comedy work included the all- synth score to Emilio Estevez 's crime drama Wisdom and
10032-465: The four years since FilmL.A. was original hired in March 2002 was a contributing factor to Burbank Unified School District 's decision to hire Film L.A. in July 2006. Under FilmL.A.'s current contract with the city, the company receives "a 16% management fee based on the total use fee". 75 percent of the remaining filming monies go to the individual schools that host the on-location shooting to be used at
10164-513: The genre as well as the works of David Bowie , Iggy Pop and Brian Eno . The term "new wave" is regarded as so loose and wide-ranging as to be "virtually meaningless", according to the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock . It originated as a catch-all for the music that emerged after punk rock , including punk itself, in Britain. Scholar Theo Cateforis said that the term was used to commercialize punk groups in
10296-420: The growing nostalgia for several new-wave-influenced musicians. New wave music encompassed a wide variety of styles that shared a quirky, lighthearted, and humorous tone that were popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. New wave includes several pop -oriented styles from this time period. Common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, the use of electronic sounds, and
10428-402: The gymnasium and a beautiful and widely admired auditorium were condemned following the 1971 Sylmar earthquake , the school's original main building from 1924 remains in use. The music building and gym (rebuilt in the early 1980s) have been scheduled to be taken down because they sit on a fault line and therefore against district policy. As of July 2010, the music building is gone. It was in
10560-700: The history of the land and of the Tongva people, has been known to draw upward of 600 people some years, including Native Americans from various tribes, local politicians, community members, and students and faculty from the school. The event includes tours of the Kuruvunga Village site and springs, performances by dancers from the Tongva and Aztec tribe, and storytelling from the Chumash tribe. There are also hands-on activities offered by authentic Native American vendors. The foundation currently leases
10692-432: The last traces of Punk were drained from New Wave, as New Wave went from meaning Talking Heads to meaning the Cars to Squeeze to Duran Duran to, finally, Wham! ". Among many critics, however, new wave remained tied to the punk/new wave period of the late 1970s. Writing in 1990, the "Dean of American Rock Critics" Robert Christgau , who gave punk and new wave bands major coverage in his column for The Village Voice in
10824-411: The late 1960s, went on to become the host for the television program New Wave Theatre that showcased rising acts in the underground new wave scene. He has been described by NTS Radio as "a virtuosic songwriter and musician whose antics bridged not just 60s counterculture and New Wave music but also film, theater, and music television." In September 1988, Billboard launched its Modern Rock chart,
10956-408: The late 1970s, defined "new wave" as "a polite term devised to reassure people who were scared by punk, it enjoyed a two- or three-year run but was falling from favor as the '80s began." Lester Bangs , another critical promoter of punk and new wave in the 1970s, when asked if new wave was "still going on" in 1982, stated that "The only trouble with New Wave is that nobody followed up on it ... But it
11088-462: The latter half of the 1980s and onward. Conversely, according to Robert Christgau , "in America, the original New Wave was a blip commercially, barely touching the nascent alt-rock counterculture of the '80s." In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the New Romantic , new pop , and new music genres. Some new wave acts, particularly R.E.M. , maintained new wave's indie label orientation through most of
11220-413: The main building were painted, and the main building was retiled as well. The facade of the building was altered to read "McKinley High School", and plants and grass patches were added throughout the school. These changes were unusual not only because the extent and timing of the changes meant that construction took place during the school year, but also because Drillbit Taylor production did not pay for
11352-449: The main theme before filming began. Once a rough cut of the film is ready, Elfman and the director have a spotting session to decide where to place music in the film, the emotional undercurrents of each scene, and overall tone. Elfman then spends a few weeks of free composition and experimentation to begin working out thematic material and to develop sounds and the harmonic palette. When he has received approval on initial material from
11484-499: The media: Punk rock or new wave bands overwhelmingly expressed their dissatisfaction with the prevailing rock trends of the day. They viewed bombastic progressive rock groups like Emerson Lake and Palmer and Pink Floyd with disdain, and instead channeled their energies into a more stripped back sound… The media, however, portrayed punk groups like the Sex Pistols and their fans as violent and unruly, and eventually punk acquired
11616-896: The mid-1990s, Elfman expanded his craft to a range of genres, including thrillers ( Dolores Claiborne , A Simple Plan , The Kingdom , The Girl on the Train , The Woman in the Window ), dramas ( Sommersby , A Civil Action , Hitchcock ), indies ( Freeway , Silver Linings Playbook , Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot , White Noise ), family ( Flubber , Charlotte's Web , Frankenweenie , Goosebumps , Dolittle ), documentary ( Standard Operating Procedure , The Unknown Known ), and horror ( Red Dragon , The Wolfman ), as well as entries in his well-established areas of horror comedy ( The Frighteners , Mars Attacks! , Dark Shadows ) and comic book-inspired action films ( Hulk , Wanted , Hellboy II: The Golden Army ). Among his franchise work, Elfman composed
11748-586: The mid-1990s. New wave music New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop -oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of punk culture ". It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock . Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many contemporary popular music styles, including synth-pop , alternative dance and post-punk . The main new wave movement coincided with late 1970s punk and continued into
11880-607: The money earned goes to FilmL.A., Inc., formerly named the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation, which acts as an intermediary between the LAUSD and the entertainment industry. The name change, which followed the naming of a new president and finance chief and came as the company was preparing to relocate its headquarters and implement a revised contract with the Los Angeles City Council , helped distance
12012-401: The monochrome blacks and greys of punk/new wave, synth-pop was promoted by a youth media interested in people who wanted to be pop stars, such as Boy George and Adam Ant ". In 2005, Andrew Collins of The Guardian offered the breakup of the Jam , and the formation of Duran Duran, as two possible dates marking the "death" of new wave. British rock critic Adam Sweeting , who described
12144-556: The most "truly definitive new wave band". In the same article, reviewing the American book This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Covers , Collins noted that the book's inclusion of such artists as Big Country , Roxy Music, Wham!, and Bronski Beat "strikes an Englishman as patently ridiculous", but that the term means "all things to all cultural commentators." By the 2000s, critical consensus favored "new wave" to be an umbrella term that encompasses power pop , synth-pop, ska revival , and
12276-766: The music for Cirque Du Soleil 's Iris in 2011, and incidental music for the Broadway production of Taylor Mac 's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus in 2019. In October 2013, Elfman returned to the stage for the first time since his band Oingo Boingo disbanded to sing a handful of The Nightmare Before Christmas songs as part of the concert Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton , featuring suites of music from 15 Tim Burton films newly arranged by Elfman. The concert has since toured internationally and has played in Japan, Australia, Mexico and throughout Europe and
12408-411: The musicians were more influenced by the styles of the 1950s along with the lighter strains of 1960s pop and were opposed to the generally abrasive, political bents of punk rock, as well as what was considered to be creatively stagnant " corporate rock ". New wave commercially peaked from the late 1970s into the early 1980s with numerous major musicians and an abundance of one-hit wonders . MTV , which
12540-608: The new wave circuit acts happening very big [in the US]. As a movement, we don't expect it to have much influence." A year earlier, Bart Mills of The Washington Post asked "Is England's New Wave All Washed Up?", writing that "The New Wave joined the Establishment, buying a few hits at the price of its anarchism. Not a single punk band broke through big in America, and in Britain John Travolta sold more albums than
12672-442: The new wave movement's commercial rise, which had been signaled in 1978 by hits for the Cars and Talking Heads. In 1980, there were brief forays into new wave-style music by non-new wave artists Billy Joel ( Glass Houses ), Donna Summer ( The Wanderer ), and Linda Ronstadt ( Mad Love ). Early in 1980, influential radio consultant Lee Abrams wrote a memo saying with a few exceptions, "we're not going to be seeing many of
12804-402: The number of schools that had hosted on-location filming from 19 schools to more than 200 schools: coordinating 1,500 film shoots at 250 LAUSD sites. The LAUSD's filming profits for the 2003-2004 school year generated almost one million dollars, and the district is on target to for an annual film revenue increase to at least $ 1.5 million. The doubling of the LAUSD's film revenue in
12936-501: The number of transfer students in other high schools. Starting in the 2018-2019, University became an affiliated charter school and changed its name to University High School Charter . Affiliated charter schools receive flexibility in the utilization of the charter school categorical block grant (for those applicable affiliated charter schools that receive it) areas of curriculum and professional development; some aspects of local school governance; and some aspects of employee selection. It
13068-767: The original Mission Impossible TV Series for Mission: Impossible ; John Williams ' theme for Superman , the Hans Zimmer / Junkie XL theme for Wonder Woman and his own original Batman theme for Justice League ; the "Welcome Christmas" song from the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for The Grinch ; and "Casey Junior," "Pink Elephants on Parade," and "When I See an Elephant Fly" from Disney's original 1941 animated film for Dumbo . The songs for The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride were influenced by Kurt Weill , Gilbert and Sullivan and early Rodgers and Hammerstein . At
13200-513: The private non-profit from its "bureaucratic and scandal-ridden image." In March 2005, the LAUSD entered into a new three-year contract with the EIDC, after soliciting bids from other vendors. Ruben Rojas, the LAUSD's director of revenue enhancement, said that the district choose to continue working with the EIDC because of "its proven track record and ability to deal with complex film-permitting issues.". Indeed, during that time, FilmL.A. expanded
13332-558: The punk-music scene. The mid-1970s British pub rock scene was the source of many of the most-commercially-successful new wave acts, such as Ian Dury , Nick Lowe , Eddie and the Hot Rods , and Dr. Feelgood . In the US, Sire Records chairman Seymour Stein , believing the term "punk" would mean poor sales for Sire's acts who had frequently played the New York club CBGB , launched a "Don't Call It Punk" campaign designed to replace
13464-412: The punk/new wave movement. Acts associated with the movement received little or no radio airplay, or music industry support. Small scenes developed in major cities. Continuing into the next year, public support remained limited to select elements of the artistic, bohemian, and intellectual population as arena rock and disco dominated the charts. In early 1979, Eve Zibart of The Washington Post noted
13596-731: The request of Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory songs drew inspiration from Bollywood , the Mamas and the Papas , ABBA , and Earth, Wind & Fire individually. Elfman's work in pop music and specifically as songwriter for Oingo Boingo was influenced by the Specials , Madness , the Selecter , Devo , Fun Boy Three , and XTC . For his film scores , Elfman draws musical inspiration almost exclusively from viewing
13728-645: The school an attractive place to film. The administration, which allows filming during school hours, moves classes as needed and allows productions to make minor changes to the campus, has a long history of bringing in filming (and the money that goes with it) to the school. The use of the school for filming is a controversial one. Filming often takes place during school hours, and students and teachers are moved from classrooms and walkways are blocked off as needed. The school often undergoes renovations for filming, anything from retiling and painting, to temporary removal of furniture and lockers. These disruptions are
13860-674: The school founded the Gabrielino/Tongva Springs Foundation, a non-profit foundation, to fight a proposed development a block north of the springs that would have cut off the springs' underground water source. They successfully fought the proposed parking structure, and since that time, the Foundation has been active at the springs. That same year, the newly established Foundation held the first annual Life Before Columbus Day event. The event, which takes place just before Columbus Day every year and celebrates
13992-476: The school's discretion, and 25 percent goes to a district fund that benefits schools that do not generate film revenues of their own. Uni High distributes among the departments the first $ 12,000 made each year from on-campus filming. The Budget Committee makes spending recommendations for any additional monies. Recent budget cuts have made filming at schools more attractive. In 2004, the number of schools volunteering to be film locations grew from 19 to 160 and
14124-549: The scores for four Men in Black films (1997–2019) and three Fifty Shades films (2015–2018). In 1996, he scored the first film in the Mission: Impossible series , adapting themes for the original television series by Lalo Schifrin as well as composing his own. Elfman scored Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002 and Spider-Man 2 in 2004, themes and selections from which were used for Raimi's Spider-Man 3 , scored by Christopher Young . Elfman's Spider-Man theme
14256-1017: The singing voice for main character Jack Skellington , as well as the voices for secondary characters Barrel, the Clown with the Tear-Away Face and others. In 2005, he wrote the score and songs for Burton's Corpse Bride and provided the voice of the character of Bonejangles, and provided the score, songs and Oompa-Loompa vocals for Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that same year. In addition to frequent collaborations with Burton, Raimi and Gus Van Sant , Elfman has worked with directors such as Brian De Palma , Peter Jackson , Joss Whedon , Errol Morris , Ang Lee , Richard Donner , Guillermo del Toro , David O. Russell , Taylor Hackford , Jon Amiel , Joe Johnston , and Barry Sonnenfeld . His scores for Sonnenfeld's Men in Black , Van Sant's Good Will Hunting and Milk , and Burton's Big Fish all received Academy Award nominations. Since
14388-489: The site from the Los Angeles Unified School District for their monthly ceremony and guided tours. The weekly student newspaper , the Wildcat , is part of the High School National Ad Network . Print issues from the school's inception as Harding High are available in the journalism archives. More recent issues were previously archived online at the "My High School Journalism" site operated by
14520-523: The soft strains of punk rock. In the UK, some post-punk music developments became mainstream. According to music critic David Smay writing in 2001: Current critical thought discredits new wave as a genre, deriding it as a marketing ploy to soft-sell punk, a meaningless umbrella term covering bands too diverse to be considered alike. Powerpop, synth-pop, ska revival, art school novelties and rebranded pub rockers were all sold as "New Wave". In mid-1977, Time and Newsweek wrote favorable lead stories on
14652-407: The start of MTV began new wave's most successful era in the US. British musicians, unlike many of their American counterparts, had learned how to use the music video early on. Several British acts on independent labels were able to outmarket and outsell American musicians on major labels, a phenomenon journalists labeled the " Second British Invasion " of "new music" , which included many artists of
14784-628: The suspension of two students for distributing Red Tide #2, 500-700 Uni students occupied the administration building. The Red Tide challenged the Warrior mascot as racist. Twenty-five years later, on September 8, 1997, the LAUSD Board of Education voted to remove the mascot as part of a ban on using Native American symbols. In 1995 LA and Bay Area Red Tide branches moved to Detroit , where they organized campaigns to free Gary Tyler and other campaigns against racism. The school's mascot
14916-665: The term "new wave" to classify New York–based groups such as the Velvet Underground and New York Dolls . In the US, many of the first new wave groups were the not-so-punk acts associated with CBGB (e.g. Talking Heads, Mink DeVille and Blondie ), as well as the proto-punk scene in Ohio, which included Devo , the Electric Eels , Rocket from the Tombs , and Pere Ubu . Some important bands, such as Suicide and
15048-598: The term with "new wave". Because radio consultants in the US had advised their clients punk rock was a fad, they settled on the new term. Like the filmmakers of the French New Wave movement , after whom the genre was named, new wave bands such as Ramones and Talking Heads were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most American writers used the term "new wave" exclusively in reference to British punk acts. Starting in December 1976, The New York Rocker , which
15180-486: The upcoming Disney Television Animation and 20th Television Animation stop-motion animated comedy series Rhona Who Lives by the River created by Emily Kapnek , Elfman also serves as executive producer for the series. In October 2020, Elfman released the single, " Happy ," on Anti- Records and Epitaph Records . From January 2021 on the eleventh day of each month, he released five subsequent singles "Sorry", "Love in
15312-405: The work of Stravinsky and his 20th-century contemporaries. Elfman attended University High School in Los Angeles before dropping out. Elfman left school to follow his brother Richard to France, where he performed violin with Jérôme Savary 's Le Grand Magic Circus, an avant-garde musical theater group. He then embarked on a ten-month, self-guided tour through Africa, busking and collecting
15444-535: Was 1985's Dead Man's Party , featuring the hit song " Weird Science " from the movie of the same name. The band also appeared performing their single " Dead Man's Party " in the 1986 movie Back to School , for which Elfman also composed the score. Elfman shifted the band to a more guitar-oriented rock sound in the late 1980s, which continued through their last album Boingo in 1994. Citing permanent hearing damage from performing live and conflicts with his film-scoring career, Elfman retired Oingo Boingo in 1995 with
15576-909: Was co-commissioned by the Library of Congress , the Royalty Pool of Andre Kostelanetz , the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra , and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland . Subsequent performances of the Suite include the New York premiere by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in July 2023 at 92NY 's inaugural MidSummer Music Fest, the West Coast premiere by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in December 2023 at
15708-434: Was coined to describe groups who were initially considered part of new wave but were more ambitious, serious, challenging, darker, and less pop-oriented. Some of these groups later adopted synthesizers. While punk rock wielded a major influence on the popular music scene in the UK, in the US it remained a fixture of the underground. By the end of 1977, "new wave" had replaced "punk" as the term for new underground music in
15840-836: Was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra , who premiered the piece on February 23, 2005, at Carnegie Hall . Subsequent concert works include his first Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven" , co-commissioned by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra , Stanford Live at Stanford University , and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which premiered at Smetana Hall in Prague on June 21, 2017, with Sandy Cameron on violin and John Mauceri conducting
15972-509: Was designed by the firm Russell & Alpaugh and the construction process began in 1923. The style that was chosen recalls the Romanesque of Northern Italy and Spanish Mission style architecture. The administration building once displayed an octagonal tower and a portico, but these features were toppled in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake . An original cafeteria building was located where the current cafeteria and theater stand today. Although
16104-610: Was formerly the Warrior, but was changed after the Southern California Indian Center petitioned the LAUSD to eliminate the mascots and names of all schools that had American Indian mascot and names. In 1997 the LAUSD decided to eliminate all American Indian mascots. The LAUSD decision was upheld in federal court, but the California Racial Mascots Act, a bill which would eliminate American Indian mascots and names statewide,
16236-747: Was incorporated into the MCU film Spider-Man: No Way Home composed by Michael Giacchino . Elfman entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe by providing additional music in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron , receiving composer credit with Brian Tyler . Elfman also scored MCU's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in 2022, utilizing Giacchino's theme to the original Doctor Strange film, as well as themes from WandaVision and X-Men: The Animated Series , and music from Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony and Bach 's Toccata and Fugue . For several high-profile sequel and reboot projects in
16368-804: Was later performed at Soka University of America in California, with Pacific Symphony . His Wunderkammer , a commission from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain , toured the UK in summer 2022, culminating in a performance in London's Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms , with national radio and TV broadcasts. Elfman's Suite for Chamber Orchestra was premiered on May 4, 2023, by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at St Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. The Suite
16500-532: Was launched in 1981, heavily promoted new-wave acts, boosting the genre's popularity in the United States. In the UK, new wave faded at the beginning of the 1980s with the emergence of the New Romantic movement. In the US, new wave continued into the mid-1980s but declined with the popularity of the New Romantic, new pop , and new music genres. Since the 1990s, new wave resurged several times with
16632-489: Was more likely from Wagner's influence on classic film composers such as Herrmann, Steiner, Waxman and Korngold, as he was unfamiliar with Wagner's work at the time. Elfman counts Herrmann as his biggest influence, and has said hearing Herrmann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still when he was a child was the first time he recognized film music as a cinematic art form and realized the powerful contribution
16764-569: Was painted over with its feline animal replacement. According to the School Information Branch: Neighborhoods served by University High are parts of West Los Angeles, including portions of Brentwood Beverly Hills Post Office (BHPO), Westwood , Bel-Air , and the Wilshire Corridor. Like other Westside high schools such as Westchester and Palisades , University High School enrolls
16896-487: Was really an exciting burst there for like a year, year and a half." Starting around 1983, the US music industry preferred the more generic term " new music ", which it used to categorize new movements like new pop and New Romanticism . In 1983, music journalist Parke Puterbaugh wrote that new music "does not so much describe a single style as it draws a line in time, distinguishing what came before from what has come after." Chuck Eddy , who wrote for The Village Voice in
17028-516: Was renamed in 1929 after the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) moved its campus from East Hollywood to Westwood , and the reputation of former President Harding had declined after the infamous Teapot Dome scandal and other situations. The name University is supposed to have originated because it became a site where teachers-in-training from nearby UCLA worked as assistant teachers/interns. The original administration building
17160-522: Was suspicious of the term "punk", became the first American journal to enthusiastically use the term, at first for British acts and later for acts associated with the CBGB scene. The music's stripped-back style and upbeat tempos, which Stein and others viewed as a much-needed return to the energetic rush of rock and roll and 1960s rock that had dwindled in the 1970s with progressive rock and stadium spectacles, attracted them to new wave. The term "post-punk"
17292-440: Was tasked with adapting and arranging 1920s and 1930s jazz and big band music by artists such as Cab Calloway , Duke Ellington , Django Reinhardt and Josephine Baker for the ensemble, which consisted of up to 15 performers playing upwards of 30 instruments. He also composed original pieces and helped build instruments unique for the group, including an aluminum gamelan , the 'Schlitz celeste ' made from tuned beer cans, and
17424-411: Was vetoed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger twice. Towards the end of the 1997–1998 school year, students were allowed to vote on a new school mascot. Students chose the "Wildcats" over the "Gators" and "Jaguars". The Class of 1985 had, as a senior project and gift to the school, painted a large Warrior mascot on the south entrance to the gym building. Shortly after the mascot change, this
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