Elliot Goldenthal

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Elliot Goldenthal
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Elliot Goldenthal
Background information
Birth name Elliot Goldenthal
Born May 2 1954 (1954-05-02) (age 55)
Origin Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Genre(s) Classical
Avante Garde
Film score
Opera
Oratorio
Musical
Occupation(s) Composer
Bookwriter
Lyricist
Musician
Actor
Years active 1979 - present
Label(s) Sony Classical
Varese Sarabande
Website "Goldenthal.filmmusic.com"

Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an acclaimed American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways.

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[edit] Biography

He was born on May 2, 1954 to a housepainter father and a catholic, seamstress mother in Brooklyn, New York; he was educated at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn where, at the age of 14, he had his very first ballet "Variations on Early Glimpses" performed; he continued to display his eclectic musical range, performing with rock bands in the 70's. He then studied music full time at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Aaron Copland and John Corigliano (both of whom he greatly admired), to earn his BA then MA in musical composition.[1][2][3]

He lives in New York City "happily unmarried", as he put once it[4], with his partner Julie Taymor, whom he met in 1982 through a mutual acquaintance, who told him "I know a person whose work is just as grotesque as yours"; they have an office/apartment where they both live and work.[5]

Goldenthal has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film. His work includes music for films such as Alien³, Michael Collins, Batman Forever, Heat and the Academy Award-winning score for Julie Taymor's "Frida"; the movie in which Goldenthal had a small acting part as a "Newsreel Reporter".[6] Incidentally he also had a small part in the stage show "Juan Darièn" as a "Circus Barker / Streetsinger".[7]

The Tony-Award winning carnival mass Juan Darièn (1988/'96) and The Green Bird (1999), based on a story by Carlo Gozzi, are some of the composer's theater works.

In 2006, Goldenthal completed his first opera with Taymor entitled Grendel, an adaptation of the John Gardner novel which told the story of Beowulf from the monster's point of view. It had its world premiere in early June 2006 at the Los Angeles Opera and earned Goldenthal a nomination in April 2007 for the Pulitzer Prize for Music.[8]

[edit] Film Works

[edit] Concert Music Works

[edit] Theatre Works

  • Play "The King Stag" (1984 production of Carlo Gozzi's play by Andrei Serban)
  • Musical "Liberty's Taken" (an original 1985 musical co-created with David Suehsdorf and Julie Taymor)
  • Musical "The Transposed Heads" (adapted in 1986 by Sidney Goldfarb and Julie Taymor from the novel by Thomas Mann)
  • Play (Commedia) "The Serpent Woman" (1988 production of Carlo Gozzi's Commedia)
  • Musical "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (1988 off-Broadway, reworked and recorded for Broadway in 1996)
    Co-Bookwriter, lyricist, arranger of the Latin text.
  • Ballet "Othello" (a 1998 ballet with choreography by Lar Lubovitch)
  • Musical "The Green Bird" (1999 on Broadway production of production of Carlo Gozzi's work)
    Stage director: Julie Taymor
  • Opera "Grendel" (opened 2006 June at Los Angeles Opera; not released on CD yet as of August 2007)
    Libretto: Julie Taymor and J D. McClatchy, after the novel Grendel by John Gardner, and the poem Beowulf
    Stage director: Julie Taymor

[edit] Awards and Nominations

  • (2007) Pulitzer Prize for Music in Music Nomination for his acclaimed "Grendel" opera
  • (2004) Emmy Awards Nomination, "Great Performances: Dance in America" - Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
  • (2004) ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Win, "S.W.A.T." - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Win, "Frida" - Best Original Soundtrack of the Year
  • (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Win, "Frida" - Soundtrack Composer of the Year
  • (2003) World Soundtrack Awards 2003 Nomination', "Burn It Blue" from "Frida" - Best Original Song Written for a Film
  • (2002) Academy Awards Win, "Frida" - Best Original Score
  • (2002) Academy Awards Nomination, "Frida", "Burn It Blue" - Best Original Song
  • (2002) Golden Globes Win, "Frida" - Best Original Score
  • (2002) World Soundtrack Awards 2002 Nomination, "The Dream Within" from "Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within" - Best Original Song Written for a Film
  • (1999) CFCA awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
  • (1998) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman & Robin" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1998) Chicago Film Critics Awards Nomination, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
  • (1998) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1998 Win, "The Butcher Boy" - Best Original Score
  • (1997) Tony Awards Nomination, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Broadway Production) - Best Original Musical Score
  • (1997) ASCAP awards Win, "A Time to Kill" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1997) Grammy Nomination, "Defile and Lament" from "A Time to Kill"
  • (1996) Academy Awards Nomination, "Michael Collins" - Best Original Score
  • (1996) Golden Globe Nomination, "Michael Collins" - Best Original Score
  • (1996) ASCAP awards Win, "Batman Forever" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1995) Grammy Nomination, "Batman Forever" - Best Instrumental Composition
  • (1995) ASCAP awards Win, "Interview with the Vampire" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1995) Golden Globe Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" - Best Original Score
  • (1994) Academy Awards Nomination, "Interview with the Vampire" - Best Original Score
  • (1994) ASCAP awards Win, "Demolition Man" - Top Box Office Film Score
  • (1990) Critics Choice Award (Edinburgh Festival) Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" - Best Music
  • (1990) American Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" - Best Music
  • (1988) Obie Award Win, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass" (Original Production) - Best Music

[edit] Quotes

“ "I love working with English musicians, especially the strings. They don't play with excessive vibrato. Strings use too much vibrato in the States" -- 1997, on recording in London. ”
“ "I think every film score that I do is the best film score that I've ever composed. I will say that in terms of strong film scores that I've composed that Cobb, Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, Drugstore Cowboy, Alien 3, and Titus are the ones that stand out." -- 1999, on his own perception of his best score. ”
“ "I say we've spent 20 years being happily unmarried. Julie's late father used to refer to me as his 'son-out-law.' Actually, I think of us as Ozzie and Harriet." -- 2002, on his marriage after collaborating with Taymor on Frida. ”
“ "Bring Fellini back from the dead, and let me work with him!" -- 2000, expresing his love of Federico Fellini.[9][10] ”

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Elliot_Goldenthal/187208
  2. ^ http://www.msmnyc.edu/ouralumni/classnotes/
  3. ^ http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=51
  4. ^ http://www.filmtracks.com/composers/goldenthal.shtml
  5. ^ http://www.donshewey.com/arts_articles/taymor_goldenthal.html
  6. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006106/
  7. ^ http://goldenthal.filmmusic.com/concert/juandarien/index.html
  8. ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2007/music/
  9. ^ http://www.filmtracks.com/composers/goldenthal.shtml
  10. ^ http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=51

[edit] External links

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