<P> He was never officially a student at the CalArts; nonetheless, an instructor there encouraged him to continue learning . Elfman stated, "He just laughed, and said,' Sit . Play .' I continued to sit and play for a couple years ." At this time, his brother Richard was forming a new musical theater group . </P> <P> In 1972 Richard Elfman founded the American new wave band / performance art group, originally called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo . They played several shows throughout the 1970s until Richard Elfman left the band to become a filmmaker . As a send - off to the band's original concept, Richard Elfman created the film Forbidden Zone based on their stage performances . Danny Elfman composed his first score for the film and played the role of Satan (the other band members played his minions). By the time the movie was completed, they had taken the name Oingo Boingo and begun recording and touring as a rock group . From 1976 and on, it was led by Danny Elfman, until 1995 when they suddenly retired . The semi-theatrical music and comedy troupe had transformed into a ska - influenced new wave band in 1979, and then changed again towards a more guitar - oriented rock sound, in the late 1980s. . Oingo Boingo, still led by Danny Elfman, performed as themselves in the 1986 movie Back to School . Additionally, Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo guitarist Steve Bartek reunited on October 31, 2015 to perform the song "Dead Man's Party"--"for the first time in 20 years to the day", as Elfman said to the audience--during an encore at a Halloween celebration at the Hollywood Bowl . </P> <P> In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee - wee's Big Adventure . Elfman was apprehensive at first, because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann . In the booklet for the first volume of Music for a Darkened Theatre, Elfman described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life . Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but three of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood, which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a serious disagreement, Sweeney Todd, and most recently Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children . Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the voices of both Barrel and the "Clown with the Tear - Away Face". In 1990, Elfman composed the iconic orchestra piece,' Ice Dance', for the Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands . Years later he provided the voice for Bonejangles the skeleton in Corpse Bride and the voices of the Oompa - Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . </P> <P> One of Elfman's notable compositions is The Simpsons Theme, which he wrote in 1989 . </P>

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