Busy Elfman looks ahead, not back

November 16, 2006 Composer Danny Elfman discussed his new album "Serenada Schizophrana," his long-standing relationship with director Tim Burton and his years in Oingo Boingo during a keynote Q&A session Wednesday at The Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film & TV Music Conference at the Beverly Hilton. Serenada marks Elfman's first classical concert work, and the composer said it originally was intended to be a small work but ended up as an ambitious, crazy collection of six movements all countering each other. Elfman has scored 50-60 films, including such Burton movies as "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Beetlejuice," "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," "Batman" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

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