It’s time to go out on a limb. Are Danny Elfman’s Percussion Concerto and the other works on his new album “great music”? Should this classical music, from the former lead singer and songwriter of new wave band Oingo Boingo—who composed film scores for Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, and Spider-Man, and whose music introduces Desperate Housewives and —be in the same conversation with Albéniz, Scriabin, Ligeti, Glass, Gluck, Brahms, and Beethoven, whose work appears on our other Recording of the Month candidate, Yuja Wang’s ?
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