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    Alex North

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    Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. ↗


    — Alex North

    #could #films #hero #i #like

    Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. ↗


    — Alex North

    #conditions #decent #dreadful #expect #friday

    Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. ↗


    — Alex North

    #bankrupt #commercialism #conventional #daring #fear

    I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. ↗


    — Alex North

    #combination #familiarity #hear #i #lack

    I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. ↗


    — Alex North

    #films #i #like #music #people

    My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. ↗


    — Alex North

    #composing #experience #film #kazan

    There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved. ↗


    — Alex North

    #involved #objectively #scores #without #write

    There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. ↗


    — Alex North

    #directors #few #music #musical #who

    Today it's not culture; it's box office. ↗


    — Alex North

    #box office #culture #office #today

    When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. ↗


    — Alex North

    #decided #go #i #music #soviet






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    North reused themes from the rejected score for The Shoes of the FiAlex Northrman Shanks (1974) and Dragonslayer but the score itself was unheard until composer Jerry Goldsmith rerecorded it for Varèse Sarabande in 1993. It was in New York that he met Elia Kazan (director of Salesman) who brought him to Hollywood in the '50s. His commissioned score for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is notorious for having been discarded by director Stanley Kubrick.

    Alex North (December 4 1910 – September 8 1991) was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score (A Streetcar Named Desire) and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood (Viva Zapata!).

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