Elliot Goldenthal

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Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an acclaimed Oscar and Golden Globe winning 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. Atonal and brutal in his action music, sometimes in underscore and tends to use very fast French horn bending tones/whining; although Goldenthal himself has said that he doesn’t “hear” atonal and tonal, rather “. …I don’t have any differentiation in my head between tonal and atonal, I either hear melody or I hear sonority — I don’t hear atonal or tonal so much.”

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He was born on May 2, 1954 as the youngest son to a Jewish 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.

He lives in New York City “happily unmarried”, as he put once it, 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.

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J0N wrote:
October 2009

actually i mostly love everything but those romanticist film music about goldenthal

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innercities wrote:
October 2009

given the great variety of musical worlds and idioms to which Goldenthal's work may open the ear - I get sick seeing so many Goldenthal listeners otherwisely merely listening to the usual romanticist film music over and over again, and some pop, and nothing else! hey folks, if you don't manage to escape this kind of simplyfying music world with an exceptional, consequently genre-breaking artist like elliot goldenthal, you're caught forever- obviously, there's no understanding and no discovery. well. try john gavanti, the 1981 no wave opera.

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temptated_angel wrote:
October 2009

amo ost de frida ^_^

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paratol wrote:
September 2009

he's the best living compoiser

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J0N wrote:
September 2009

i love his way of making panic and fate in his music. final fantasy, alien3

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Gamester wrote:
September 2009

Hey! Care to join the new "American Classical Music" group to honor American composers and their music? Check it out and join if you like! :o)

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musrum wrote:
August 2009

what is?

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SoNiC213 wrote:
August 2009

awesome movie + soundtrack

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Anira_Sugar wrote:
August 2009

I love he

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NickCurran wrote:
August 2009

I really like "Batman Forever" soundtrack; it's one of the most original Batman movies soundtracks

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AndresAnkh wrote:
August 2009

One of the greatest soundtracks i've ever heard! my Favorite is the floating bed!

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robetar wrote:
August 2009

I watched Frida yesterday, and fell'd in love in soundtrack of it!

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Darecki_DZRTR wrote:
July 2009

Public Enemies has such a GREAT soundtrack. In general.

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vakeragalaktica wrote:
July 2009

wooow <3 Frida

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cogsturning wrote:
June 2009

i remember thinking alien 3 and batman forever had very similar, overly epic soundtracks. im not too surprised its the same guy. titus is good stuff tho.

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wjp4107 wrote:
May 2009

Good day... Please check out the Movie Score Addicts... group. We would be very glad to have you as a member too. Thanks...

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madporter wrote:
May 2009

alien 3, amazing work!

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liquidloz wrote:
April 2009

Wow.

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Oliahim wrote:
April 2009

Alien 3.

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ion_meds wrote:
March 2009

❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥❥!!!

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