From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

A dream come true sitting across from me is someone I like to think it's being an old friend,

because I met him, gosh, 20 years ago, recording a piece for a public television here in Southern California, composer, Bon Vivant.

And now the educator and a master class, Danny, first of all, Danny, so good to have you here.

Thank you. My pleasure.

I guess I would ask you to explain for those of us who don't really know,

they didn't know about the master class until I heard about this.

What exactly it is?

How you describe it?

Well, I mean, God, I'm thinking of how to describe it.

It's online, and they just have a lot of really good people really going into depth about what they do and how they do it.

So, you know, you've got Annie Liebuwitz talking about how she sets up a session, how she approaches photography, how her whole attitude about the whole thing.

You've got David Lynch, you know, kind of going on like the total opposite side of like just pure David Lynchy and wonderful craziness.

And then so it can be very technical.

It could be very theoretical.

But everybody just approaches it how they approach their art.

And I, uh, I thought of doing it because in really in the last five, ten years, I started doing more, because I started

performing with this Elfman Burton show and, you know, going out into other cities in something I

hadn't done any of that in such a long time. And I started kind of, well, can you go to the university,

talk with some film music students, music students. And I started doing that. And I found

it was really enjoying it. And I thought about it and I said, God, I'd have killed to have access

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