'Simpsons' Music Score Composer Out After 27 Years
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Mark Jeffries
Aug 30, 2017, 5:57:25 PM8/30/17
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Alf Clausen, after over 560 episodes, 23 Emmy nominations and 2 wins (30 Emmy nominations in total, the most for a composer--six of the other seven were for "Moonlighting" and the last for ABC's 1981 attempt to reboot "Omnibus"), has been fired by the "Simpsons" in an attempt to cut costs (which for music are in the millions per season, thanks to Matt Groening's insistence on a 35-piece orchestra for every episode)--his replacement hasn't been announced:
Adam Bowie
Aug 30, 2017, 6:47:31 PM8/30/17
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The most redundant line in that article is: 'Danny Elfman’s “Simpsons” theme is expected to be retained.'
Er. Yes.
Adam
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Alf Clausen, after over 560 episodes, 23 Emmy nominations and 2 wins (30 Emmy nominations in total, the most for a composer--six of the other seven were for "Moonlighting" and the last for ABC's 1981 attempt to reboot "Omnibus"), has been fired by the "Simpsons" in an attempt to cut costs (which for music are in the millions per season, thanks to Matt Groening's insistence on a 35-piece orchestra for every episode)--his replacement hasn't been announced:
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Bob Jersey
Aug 6, 2019, 3:24:01 PM8/6/19
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Mark Jeffries, 8/30/2017:
Alf Clausen, after over 560 episodes, 23 Emmy nominations and 2 wins (30 Emmy nominations in total, the most for a composer--six of the other seven were for "Moonlighting" and the last for ABC's 1981 attempt to reboot "Omnibus"), has been fired by the "Simpsons" in an attempt to cut costs (which for music are in the millions per season, thanks to Matt Groening's insistence on a 35-piece orchestra for every episode)--his replacement hasn't been announced:
He is suing Fox, Disney, and Gracie Films, alleging age discrimination, noting his successor “was substantially younger in age, [and] was not only paid less, but was not disabled.”
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/simpsons-composer-lawsuit-fox-wrongful-termination-1203292605/ (link)
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Kevin M.
Aug 6, 2019, 3:31:46 PM8/6/19
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He... will win
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Mark Jeffries
Aug 8, 2019, 2:31:40 AM8/8/19
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Well, some may've been substantially younger in age. Clausen is 78, his replacement(s) work for Hans Zimmer's company Bleeding Fingers Music--Zimmer himself is 61 but his staffers are probably substantially younger. And I assume that Zimmer has not worked on a particular "Simpsons" episode. Some of Bleeding Fingers' other credits include the BBC's "Planet Earth 2" (which Zimmer did work on), "Survivor" and currently on Sunday nights after "The Simpsons," ABC's "$100,000 Pyramid," where Bleeding Fingers did a new arrangement of Bob Cobert's rewrite of the original "Pyramid" theme, Ken Allin's stock library piece "Tuning Up" (so Bob Stewart could save on licensing the music).
Bob Jersey
Jul 27, 2020, 7:13:14 PM7/27/20
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The defendants replied in April, painting Clausen as having taken too different of a direction by (a) creating a rap score for an episode and (b) delegating some of the work to others, including his son... Clausen's side replied to that just this week, contending Brooks et al harboured "discriminatory ageist beliefs" about what Clausen was capable of...
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