If you are in Mason, Texas on October 4th, you can participate in various activities on Old Yeller Day related to the book and the Disney movie (1957). Fred Gibson, the author of Old Yeller (1956), lived most of his live in Mason. Here is an article about the festivities, and here is the calendar of events on the Mason city website.
Apparently Ludwig Bemelmans' grandson has created a new Madeline story. You can read about it here. I think they could have just left the character well enough alone in print with the five original stories (you can see my thoughts in general about this practice here in part 1 and part 2), but perhaps this is one that will work. (According to a couple of reviews mentioned in the AP article, it looks like it does not though.) I will probably take a look at it once the library has it.
The Earnest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida has worked out an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow the six-toed cats to stay. Here is the AP story.
If you are in Northern Utah, here are a few productions you might want to see:
Jekyll and Hyde - Rodgers Memorial Theater in Centerville is performing this musical based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) through October 30th. Go to www.rodgersmemorial.com for more information.
In American Fork, through October 13th, you can experience the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Concert, based Washington Irving's short story originally published in 1820, with an orchestra, a sound effects artist, and a fully costumed chorus and narrator, as well as other activities for the whole family. Go to www.sleepyhollowshow.com for more information.
And lastly, BYU is hosting the University of Utah's production of the Classical Greek Tragedy Medea (431 BC), by Euripides on September 29th. Get production and ticket information at www.byuarts.com.
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September 29, 2008
August 26, 2008
Danny Elfman
(It started taking me forever to complete each post as I was including links for every book, DVD, CD, etc. and my links to the Davis County Library system weren't working so I held off to decide how I wanted to continue. This explains the gap between postings. For the time being I am not going to set up as many links and I hope the posts are still as useful without the links.)
When it comes to music done for movies based on, or inspired by, classic and well known stories, I think you would be hard pressed to find a composer who has done more than Danny Elfman.
His portfolio of movies based on books for which he composed the soundtracks, or at least developed the main themes for, includes:
Scrooged (1988) – an updated version of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol
Black Beauty (1994)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) – a decidedly different interpretation of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes (2001) – which version was even more removed from the Pierre Boulle’s original book than the 1968 version
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Charlotte’s Web (2006)
If you allowed a couple of more contemporary author’s works in to this list, these would also count:
Meet the Robinsons (2007) – based on William Joyce’s children’s book A Day with Wilbur Robinson
Dolores Claiborne (1995) – from a Stephen King novel
Then, if you were to include well known comic book characters, the list grows with:
Batman (1989)
Dick Tracy (1990)
The Flash (1990) – actually a TV series that Elfman did the theme music for
Batman Returns (1992)
Spider-man (2002)
Hulk (2003)
Spider-man 2 (2004)
And while this doesn’t even complete his musicography, he did these movies which are also based on stories that originated in comics – Darkman (1990), Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).
Edward Scissorhands (1990) and The Corpse Bride (2005), are two movies which could just as easily be included in this list as the first has shades of Frankenstein, and Beauty and the Beast, and the second is loosely based on a Russian-Jewish folktale.
Lastly, if you wanted to stretch this list you could add the theme for The Simpsons TV series (1989+), which after 20 seasons and a movie is on its way to becoming an institution of its own (besides, The Simpsons has probably spoofed more classic and well-known books, movies and fictional characters then any other current series.)
When it comes to music done for movies based on, or inspired by, classic and well known stories, I think you would be hard pressed to find a composer who has done more than Danny Elfman.
His portfolio of movies based on books for which he composed the soundtracks, or at least developed the main themes for, includes:
Scrooged (1988) – an updated version of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol
Black Beauty (1994)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) – a decidedly different interpretation of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes (2001) – which version was even more removed from the Pierre Boulle’s original book than the 1968 version
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Charlotte’s Web (2006)
If you allowed a couple of more contemporary author’s works in to this list, these would also count:
Meet the Robinsons (2007) – based on William Joyce’s children’s book A Day with Wilbur Robinson
Dolores Claiborne (1995) – from a Stephen King novel
Then, if you were to include well known comic book characters, the list grows with:
Batman (1989)
Dick Tracy (1990)
The Flash (1990) – actually a TV series that Elfman did the theme music for
Batman Returns (1992)
Spider-man (2002)
Hulk (2003)
Spider-man 2 (2004)
And while this doesn’t even complete his musicography, he did these movies which are also based on stories that originated in comics – Darkman (1990), Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).
Edward Scissorhands (1990) and The Corpse Bride (2005), are two movies which could just as easily be included in this list as the first has shades of Frankenstein, and Beauty and the Beast, and the second is loosely based on a Russian-Jewish folktale.
Lastly, if you wanted to stretch this list you could add the theme for The Simpsons TV series (1989+), which after 20 seasons and a movie is on its way to becoming an institution of its own (besides, The Simpsons has probably spoofed more classic and well-known books, movies and fictional characters then any other current series.)
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