Best known for leading a 35-piece orchestra to score the Simpsons' everyday life, Clausen is in his element during this dreamy lullaby sung by Mary Poppins stand-in Shary Bobbins. Strings swell and ...

But for the next 27 seasons from the show's launch in 1990 until 2017, all the music was written, arranged and orchestrated by Alf Clausen, who died last week at age 84. He worked with a 35-piece ...

The Emmy-winning composer/arranger worked with a 35-piece orchestra for 27 years, creating music for The Simpsons. Clausen died May 29. Originally broadcast May 14, 1997.

His book is called Why We Remember. Alf Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer, arranger and orchestrator behind the music and song parodies on The Simpsons, died at 84. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1997.

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The Emmy nominee appeared six times on Broadway and starred alongside Stacy Keach in a pair of early 1970s films.

“We can’t say we saved the world,” Selman said at an Annecy Film Festival panel honoring creator Matt Groening this week, per The Hollywood Reporter. “We sort of destroyed it, actually,” he continued.

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According to a death certificate from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which was obtained by People, Wendt ...