We lost another .. Alf Clausen, composer of the Simpsons music

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Alf Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer whose music provided essential accompaniment for the animated antics of The Simpsons for 27 years, has died.

His daughter Kaarin Clausen told The Associated Press that Alf Clausen died Thursday (May 29) at his home in Los Angeles after struggling with Parkinson's disease for about a decade. He was 84.

Clausen, who also scored TV series including Moonlighting and Alf ("no relation," he used to joke) was nominated for 30 Emmy Awards, 21 of them for The Simpsons, winning twice.

Al Jean, an early Simpsons writer who was one of the key creative figures on the show in the 1990s, said in a post on X Friday that "Clausen was an incredibly talented man who did so much for The Simpsons."

While Danny Elfman wrote the show's theme song, Clausen joined the Fox animated series created by Matt Groening in 1990 and provided essentially all of its music until 2017, composing nearly 600 scores and conducting the 35-piece orchestra that played it in the studio.

 

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Sort of related but the guy who did the John Redcorn voice on King of the Hill was murdered by his neighbor on his doorstep, basically over a fight about him being gay.

"They did not accept our relationship": Actor Jonathan Joss shot dead in alleged homophobic attack | Salon.com

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basically over a fight about him being gay.

ridiculous .. third world stuff.