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Danny Elfman was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra in New York to basically compose whatever he wanted to compose. Serenada Schizophrana is the result and it premiered at Carnegie Hall in February 2005 with Steven Sloane conducting.
John Mauceri conducts this new album of the Serenada. The score was used as the soundtrack to the Imax film Deep Sea 3D. Elfman lists his influences as film composers Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Dimitri Tiomkin, Max Steiner, and Erich Korngold. He also lists classical composers Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Carl Orff as influences (interesting that Igor and Bela are names in that list). The Hermann references are very easy to spot.
One would expect to hear hints of Psycho in something called Serenada Schizophrana. You can also hear hints of Elfmans other works in it as well, but just as youre about to start mentally singing Whats this? (or other works), he sends the notes in the opposite direction.
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