LOS ANGELES â If Disney ever wanted to reboot Toy Story as a horror franchise, they d do well to tap the curiously creepy collection that famed film and TV composer Danny Elfman keeps in his East Hollywood recording compound.
Animators could do a tracking shot through the enclosed loading dock, into Elfman s studio and be greeted by the man himself, who d introduce his little buddies: a pair of fist-sized, shrunken human heads that occupy space on a table in the corner of a cavernous entry room.
Protected in glass display cases a few steps away from a similar case housing an original Jack Skellington doll from The Nightmare Before Christmas (Elfman provided the singing voice of Skellington, as well as the film s songs and score), the shriveled noggins sit among various Victorian medical devices, detached mannequin hands, busts of clowns, doll parts and other macabre curios that constitute the life-long Angeleno s aesthetic.
The BBC Proms are renowned for commissioning new pieces by a raft of new composers every year – many of which go on to be considered major works in the classical music canon
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