For so many reasons, there couldn't be any composer better suited than Danny Elfman to score a new version of Planet of the Apes. Firstly he comes from a background of explorations in percussion. Hints of that self-education made the best of such works as Mission: Impossible and Men In Black. Now comes the most thunderous, bone-rattling collection of stick bashing in his (and ...
Most famous for his collaborations with film director Peter Greenaway, Michael Nyman is a thoroughly modern composer, at home with concerto form, a film score or an arrangement of baroque song. Indeed, Where the Bee Dances for saxophone and orchestra is a single-movement concerto, the title derived from one of Puck's songs from Shakespeare's The Tempest. More than that, Nyman makes ...