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The primary classical critic for the NY Times wrote a rave review of DANNY ELFMAN'S MUSIC FOR THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON concert at Lincoln Center in NY.
This may have been one of the first instances where the Times has given a "film music" concert a great review.
Some of the review highlights:
"For all the costumed spectacle and fun, this event was a substantive, rich and revealing concert."
"I was prepared for the fantasy and playfulness of Mr. Elfman’s music, but not for its subtleties and stylistic fusions."
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure- "suite starts surprisingly, with aggressive, mechanistic marches, like brutal episodes out of Shostakovich. At one point, a slinky, sad waltz melody wafts from the strings. Gradually, accents are nudged by dissonant chords, and the music morphs into a hard-bitten dance. Imagine Prokofiev in Hollywood."
"In “Beetlejuice,” some sumptuously grotesque orchestra music was punctuated by captivating, amplified choral howls."
"In “Sleepy Hollow,” sustained, French-sounding sonorities bleed from one chord to another during a wayward harmonic journey. In one angelic episode, a splendid boy soprano, Leif Christian Pedersen, sang tender, textless melodic lines. It was hard not to root for the aliens during “Mars Attacks!,” since their music, for all its needling vehemence, was so delightfully sly."
"As an ardent fan of “Edward Scissorhands,” I was pleased to hear the familiar tingling celesta riffs and wondrously spectral sounds from the opening of the film played in this full orchestral version. Central to this suite was a demonic, Paganini-inspired violin solo, played with steamy virtuosity by Sandy Cameron.:
"The ovation he received was almost terrifyingly loud, with screeching like something out of a Burton film."
Here is the review in full:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/arts/music/review-danny-elfmans-music-from-the-films-of-tim-burton-macabre-yet-sweet.html?_r=0
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