The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby Wiki The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (also known as Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby) is the soundtrack to the 2. The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, released through Interscope Records on May 6, 2. The album was produced by Baz Luhrmann and Anton Monsted, while Jay- Z served as the album's executive producer. Young and Beautiful" performed by Lana Del Rey served as the album's lead single and it was released on April 2. Development. Edit.

"Sweet Love" is a song by American recording artist. while several women watch them from across the. Melinda Newman of HitFix wrote that in "Sweet Love". "Back to Black" is a song by. icy electronic music" that Luhrmann used in his film Romeo + Juliet. The lyrics of the song. Newman of the website HitFix. SECONDARY AGES 12 – 18 Teachers' Course 7: “Romeo and Juliet. While for the boys Tony (Romeo) sings about Maria (Juliet), with whom he has fallen in love. Nashville is an American musical. artist and a love interest. Connie Britton began to embark on what seemed to be a swan song of night time.

Jay- Z served as an executive producer for both the album and the film.[2][3] He and film director Baz Luhrmann worked together for two years, "translating the Jazz Age sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel into the musical equivalents of our own times, through the blending of hip- hop, traditional jazz and other contemporary musical textures".[4] On his approach to the project, Luhrmann said: "The question for me in approaching Gatsby was how to elicit from our audience the same level of excitement and pop cultural immediacy toward the world that Fitzgerald did for his audience? And in our age, the energy of jazz is caught in the energy of hip- hop." Luhrmann also revealed that Jeymes Samuel from The Bullitts was one of the people he worked with for the soundtrack. He further described his collaborations with the producers of the album during an interview saying, "[James is] a really great friend of [Jay's] and just a unique human being. He defines energy; he defines spirit and he's a pop cultural genius.

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And I worked with Anton Monsted .. The duo also worked with composer Craig Armstrong, who scored Luhrmann's films Romeo + Juliet (1. Moulin Rouge! (2. Anton Monsted.[6]Promotion. Edit. On April 4, 2. Interscope and Warner Bros. The same day, a new trailer for the film featured previews of three songs from the soundtrack ("Back to Black", "Over the Love", and "Young and Beautiful").[4][7] One MTV contributor wrote that the trailer spotlights the relationship between two of the film's characters, "but it's really only here to show off the movie's soundtrack".[8] A six- minute sampler of the soundtrack which contained snippets of the songs was released on April 1.

You. Tube[9][1. 0] excluding "Back to Black" and "1. Bill".[1. 1] The whole album was made available for streaming through NPR on May 2, 2. Young and Beautiful", co- written and performed by Lana Del Rey, served as the album's lead single.[3] It was released as a digital download on April 2.

The alternative rock ballad was co- written by Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels, who also produced it.[1. A music video for the song was going to be released on April 2. May 1. 0.[1. 5]"A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)", performed by Fergie, Q- Tip and Goon.

Rock premiered on Rolling Stone's official website on April 1. The song was officialy released as a single on May 1. Its music video featuring Fergie was released on August 6, 2. Bang Bang", performed by will.

American Idol on May 2, 2. It was released as the soundtrack's third single on June 2. May 2. 0, 2. 01. 3.

Promotional singles. Edit"Over the Love" by Florence and the Machine was released as a promotional single on April 1. GQ's official website.[1. Together" by The xx and "Into the Past" by Nero were released as promo singles on April 2.

Other songs. Edit. Several songs were released in full prior to the release of the album. Knowles' and André 3. Back to Black" was premiered by Mark Ronson on his East Village Radio show on April 2. Sia's "Kill and Run" also appeared online a few days later.[2. Emeli Sandé's cover of "Crazy in Love" was premiered online on April 3.

Sound. Cloud.[2. 1] On May 2, 2. American Idol's twelfth season final four contestants covered Sandé's version of "Crazy in Love".[2. Composition. Edit. The Daily Telegraph described the film's music as a "decidedly modern mix of 2. Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone commented that the songs in the album have "a consistent mood of noirish, doomed romance". Several songs on the album feature influences from electronic music which was also present in the soundtrack for Romeo + Juliet, also produced by Luhrmann.[2.

Other musical elements which are featured on the albums include electronica, hip- hop and rock music with jazz- age sounds.[2. Kathy Mc. Cabe of The Daily Telegraph noted the inclusion of "orchestral flourishes" in most of the songs.[2.

Instrumentally, horn- driven sounds with loping bass beats and house music synths are used in the songs.[2. The themes in the songs include partying, murder and heartache as well as "the story's point home – illusionary love, the excess of the leisure classes, the curse of money" as stated by Cristina Jaleru of The Associated Press.[2. Entertainment Weekly's Adam Carlson concluded that the soundtrack's songs reveal that it is set 1.

He noted that it contains "all honking brass and a preference for tempos that slide up the scale like liquor, getting hot just as they hit the chorus."[1. Logan Smithson of the webzine Pop. Matters commented that an important thing for a soundtrack was to maintain a cohesive sound: a general theme to piece the tracks together and make it sound like a single piece of work rather than a collection of songs. He further noted that the soundtrack accomplished this feat although the artists came from a variety of genres and backgrounds.[2. He further noted, "The Great Gatsby Soundtrack does its job of capturing the sound of the Roaring '2. A fusion of horns brings the era to life with a modern twist. Jazzy melodies are captured by the Bryan Ferry Orchestra.

Some songs certainly have a neo- soul vibe going, reminiscent of the late Amy Winehouse."[2. Track listing. Edit"1. Bill" by Jay- Z (Carter, Mast)"Back to Black" by Beyoncé x André 3. Winehouse, Ronson)"Bang Bang" by will.

Adams, Johnson, Mack, Bono)"A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)" by Fergie, Q- Tip and Goon. Rock (Listenbee, Orvash, Mc. Donald, Richard, Smith, Ferguson, Scott, Martin, Fareed)"Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey (Grant, Nowels)"Love Is the Drug" by Bryan Ferry with The Bryan Ferry Orchestra (Ferry, Mac. Kay)"Over the Love" by Florence and the Machine (Hammond, Harpoon, SBTRKT, Welch)"Where the Wind Blows" by Coco O. Quadron (Martin, Doughtery, Ponce)"Crazy in Love" by Emeli Sandé and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra (Record, Knowles, Harrison, Carter)"Together" by The xx (Smith, Sim, Madley Croft)"Hearts a Mess" by Gotye (De Backer, Burgie, Attaway)"Love Is Blindness" by Jack White (U2, Bono, The Edge)"Into the Past" by Nero (Ray, Stephens, Watson, Armstrong)"Kill and Run" by Sia (Furler, Braide)"1. Bill". "Back to Black".

Young and Beautiful". Love Is Blindness". Crazy in Love" (Kid Koala Version)"Bang Bang". I Like Large Parties" (Dialogue) by Elizabeth Debicki"A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)".

Love Is the Drug". Can't Repeat the Past?" (Dialogue) by Leonardo Di. Caprio and Tobey Maguire"Hearts a Mess". Where the Wind Blows". Green Light" (Dialogue)"No Church in the Wild" by Jay- Z and Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean (West, Carter, Breaux, Njapa, Dean, Nash, Wright, Manzanera, Brown, Roach)"Over the Love". Into the Past". "Over the Love (Of You)" by Florence and the Machine and SBTRKT"Young and Beautiful" (DH Orchestral Version)"Gatsby Believed in the Green Light" (Dialogue) by Tobey Maguire and Craig Armstrong.

Personnel. Edit. Credits for Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby adapted from Allmusic.[2. André 3. 00. 0 – primary artist. Beyoncé – primary artist. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra – primary artist.

Lana Del Rey – primary artist. Fergie – primary artist. Bryan Ferry – primary artist. Florence and the Machine – primary artist. Goon. Rock – primary artist. Gotye – primary artist. Jay- Z – primary artist.

Nero – primary artist. Coco O. – primary artist. Q- Tip – primary artist. Emeli Sandé – primary artist. Sia – primary artist.

Jack White – primary artist. The xx – primary artist.

Claire Danes - Wikipedia. Claire Danes. Born.

Claire Catherine Danes(1. April 1. 2, 1. 97. Manhattan, New York, U. S. Occupation. Actress.

Years active. 19. Spouse(s)Hugh Dancy (m. 2. Children. 1Claire Catherine Danes (born April 1.

American actress. She is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2. 01. 2, Time named her one of the 1. Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2. Danes gained recognition with her role as Angela Chase in the acclaimed 1. My So- Called Life.[2] The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

She made her film debut the same year in Little Women (1. Her other films include Romeo + Juliet (1.

The Rainmaker (1. Les Misérables (1. Brokedown Palace (1. English dub of Princess Mononoke (1. Igby Goes Down (2. The Hours (2. 00.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2. Shopgirl (2. 00. 5) and Stardust (2. From 1. 99. 8 to 2. Danes attended Yale University before dropping out to return to acting. She appeared in an Off- Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues in 2. Broadway debut playing Eliza Doolittle in the 2.

Pygmalion. In 2. 01. Temple Grandin in the highly acclaimed HBO TV film Temple Grandin, which won her a second Golden Globe and her first Primetime Emmy Award for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Since 2. 01. 1, she has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime drama series Homeland, for which she has won two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, two Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and the Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama.[3][4] She is married to actor Hugh Dancy, with whom she has one child.

Early life and education[edit]Danes was born in Manhattan, New York,[5] the daughter of a sculptor and printmaking artist, Carla Danes (née Hall),[6] and a photographer, Christopher Danes.[7] She has an older brother, Asa, who is a lawyer.[8][9][1. Danes' parents met when they were studying at the Rhode Island School of Design.[5] Danes' mother was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Education from Rhode Island School of Design (1. Associate of Applied Science in Textile Design from Fashion Institute of Technology (1. Early Childhood Education from Hunter College (1. Master of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design (2.

During Danes' childhood her mother ran a small toddler day- care center called Danes Tribe out of the family's So. Ho loft to supplement her work as a painter and textile designer, and later served as Danes' manager.[1. Danes' father was born in Austin, Texas, in 1. Biology and Civil Engineering at Brown University, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design (1. Harry Callahan.[1.

During Danes' childhood her father worked as a general contractor for 2. Overall Construction in New York.[5] He also worked as a photographer and computer consultant.[5] He is the son of Gibson Andrew Danes,[1. Yale School of Art and Architecture from 1. Danes is named after her paternal grandmother, Claire Danes (née Tomowske),[1. The family lived in an artist's loft on Crosby Street.[1. Danes attended P. S. 3 and PS 1. 1 for elementary school and Professional Performing Arts School for junior high school (during its first year of existence).[1.

Danes attended the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New York City (the same school her Homeland co- star Morena Baccarin attended).[5] She attended The Dalton School for one year of high school before moving with her parents to Santa Monica, California for the role in My So- Called Life.[5] Danes said they moved two days after the 1. Northridge earthquake.[5]Danes graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in 1. In 1. 99. 8, Danes went to Yale University. Director Oliver Stone wrote a letter of recommendation.[1. After studying for two years as a psychology major, she dropped out to focus on her film career.[5]Danes started studying dance when she was six years old.[2. Danes took dance classes from Ellen Robbins at Dance Theater Workshop and acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at the age of ten.[2.

She appeared in theater and video productions in New York City.[5] Although she continued to dance, Danes said that her focus shifted to acting by the time she was nine years old.[1. Her audition with Miloš Forman when she was 1. She signed with agent Karen Friedman at the Writers & Artists talent agency at the age of 1.

Television[edit]At age 1. Danes' first big job was working on the Dudley Moore TV sitcom pilot called Dudley, which was shot at Silvercup Studios in Astoria, Queens.[5]Danes played a teenage murderer in a guest starring role on Law & Order in the season three episode "Skin Deep." She appeared in an episode of HBO's Lifestories: Families in Crisis entitled "The Coming out of Heidi Leiter". In March 1. 99. 3, a pilot episode was shot, when she was 1.

It would be almost another year and a half before broadcast. She then starred as the 1. Angela Chase in the television drama series My So- Called Life,[2. For her role, she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy nomination. Despite being canceled after only 1. My So- Called Life has developed a large cult following.[2.

In 1. 99. 5, she starred in the Soul Asylum music video for "Just Like Anyone". In 2. 01. 0, Danes starred in the HBO production of Temple Grandin, a biopic about the eponymous woman with autism. She won the 2. 01. Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, the 2. Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the 2. Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries award.

The film was well received and Grandin herself praised Danes' performance.[2. Since 2. 01. 1, Danes has starred as Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland in which she plays an agent of the CIA who has bipolar disorder.[2. Her character believes a United States Marine Corps war hero is planning a terrorist attack while being tapped for high- profile government service. The series costars Mandy Patinkin and Damian Lewis. She won the 2. 01.

Golden Globe and the 2. Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series for her performance. She also won the 2. Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in Homeland.[2.

In 2. 01. 2, TIME magazine named Danes one of the 1. Danes played Beth March in the 1. Little Women. Although ABC canceled My So- Called Life in 1. Home for the Holidays and 1. I Love You, I Love You Not and To Gillian on Her 3. Birthday. Her first leading role on the big screen came in 1.

Juliet in the film Romeo + Juliet,[1. Baz Luhrmann to call her, at age 1. Meryl Streep of her generation."[2. Watch Mothman Online.

Later that year, it was reported that she turned down the female lead role in Titanic.[2. Danes said that while she may have been considered for the part, she was never offered the role. In 1. 99. 7, Danes played abused wife Kelly Riker in The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola,[1. Jenny in Oliver Stone's noir U Turn.

In 1. 99. 8, she played several very different roles: Cosette in Les Misérables, and the pregnant teenage daughter of Polish immigrants in Polish Wedding. In 1. 99. 9, she made her first appearance in an animated feature with the English version of Princess Mononoke. That same year, she played the role of Julie Barnes in the big screen adaptation of the 1. TV show The Mod Squad.

She also starred in Brokedown Palace, and was subsequently declared persona non grata in the Philippines for racist remarks she made about the country.[2. Danes left her career temporarily to attend Yale, having made 1.

In 2. 00. 2, she returned to film. She starred in Igby Goes Down.

Later that year, she co- starred as Clarissa Vaughan's (played by Meryl Streep) daughter in the Oscar- nominated film The Hours.