Danny Elfman: Grand Finale (from Edward Scissorhands) Context Danny Elfman was born in LA in 1953, and has had an incredibly successful career in the music industry. Elfman is best-known for his collaboratory work with director, Tim Burton. He has produced film scores with Burton for films such as: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Read more…
Harry Gregson-Williams: To Aslan’s Camp (from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) Welcome all to this film music mini series on Classicalexburns. Today’s film score is by British composer, Harry Gregson-Williams, for Disney’s interpretation of C. S. Lewis’ ever-popular series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch Read more…
Hans Zimmer: ‘This Land’ from The Lion King Welcome back to the Classicalexburns mini blog series on some of the most fantastic film music scores. Today’s offering is about Hans Zimmer’s score for the ever-popular Disney film, The Lion King. Although the whole score for this film is cleverly crafted, I have decided Read more…
John Williams: ‘Leaving Hogwarts’ from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Welcome Classicalexburns readers to the next exciting instalment on the site. Recently, I have been listening to a lot of film soundtracks, so I thought I’d share with you one of my favourite short tracks from the first Harry Potter Read more…
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1961) – Leonard Bernstein Good day, readers, welcome to Classicalexburns! You’re all in for such a treat today, as we go on a musical adventure to explore the life of Leonard Bernstein, and his work for orchestra: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1961). This will be Read more…
Greetings dearest readers! Today’s blog is going to be a very exciting one on John Williams’ incredibly famous work from ‘Star Wars’: The Imperial March. The inspiration for this blog has come from the fact that I have recently played in a concert with Sheffield University Wind Orchestra, and we Read more…
Hello readers! It’s the last day of my August Alphabet Challenge *sobs* – I’ve done it! 26 brand-spanking new blogs written daily throughout August coinciding with the alphabet! That’s 26 NEW composers spanning from 1713 all the way to 2015 – what a journey it has been! I do hope Read more…