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Alex North
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Alex North studied at Juilliard and in Moscow and first wrote music for theatre and dance. Elia Kazan took him to Hollywood for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). That was one of the first Hollywood scores to lean heavily on jazz and blues. The music follows the psyche of the characters instead of the action. Later North wrote big, modern epics such as Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963), with sharp dissonances and unusual instruments. For 2001: A Space Odyssey he wrote a score that Stanley Kubrick did not use. North was nominated fifteen times for an Oscar and received an honorary Oscar in 1986.
Listening
Main Title · Alex North, 1951
Prelude · Alex North, 1966
A Streetcar Named Desire: Streetcar · Alex North, 1951
Discography
Studio albums
- 1951A Streetcar Named Desire (soundtrack)
- 1956The Bad Seed (soundtrack)
- 1957The Rainmaker (soundtrack)
- 1958South Seas Adventure (soundtrack)
- 1958The Long, Hot Summer (soundtrack)
- 1958Written on the Wind / Four Girls in Town (soundtrack)
- 1959The Sound and the Fury (soundtrack)
- 1959Wonderful Country (soundtrack)
- 1960Spartacus (soundtrack)
- 1963Cleopatra (soundtrack)
- 1965The Agony And The Ecstasy (soundtrack)
- 1968The Devil's Brigade (soundtrack)
- 1968The Shoes of the Fisherman (soundtrack)
- 1969A Dream of Kings (soundtrack)
- 1976Rich Man, Poor Man (soundtrack)
- 1978Charade '79
- 1980Carny (soundtrack)
- 1983Dragonslayer: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 1984Under the Volcano (soundtrack)
- 1987Cheyenne Autumn (soundtrack)
- 1987The Dead / Journey Into Fear (soundtrack)
- 1990The Last Butterfly (soundtrack)
- 1990The Rose Tattoo (soundtrack)
- 1991A Streetcar Named Desire
- 1992A Streetcar Named Desire (soundtrack)
- 1993Alex North’s 2001: The Legendary Original Score
- 1994Spartacus
- 1998The Misfits (soundtrack)
- 1998Viva Zapata! (soundtrack)
- 1999Bite The Bullet (soundtrack)
- 2000Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (soundtrack)
- 2001Africa (soundtrack)
- 2002The Long, Hot Summer / Sanctuary (soundtrack)
- 2002The Racers / Daddy Long Legs (soundtrack)
- 2003All Fall Down / The Outrage (soundtrack)
- 2004I'll Cry Tomorrow (soundtrack)
- 2004The Shoes of the Fisherman / Ice Station Zebra / Where Eagles Dare (soundtrack)
- 2005Desiree
- 2007Les Miserables (soundtrack)
- 2007Music for 2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack)
- 2008Pony Soldier (soundtrack)
- 2008Viva Zapata!/The 13th Letter (soundtrack)
- 2009Hard Contract (soundtrack)
- 2010The Children's Hour (soundtrack)
- 2012Shanks (soundtrack)
- 2013The Agony and the Ecstasy
- 2014Sounder / Decision for Chemistry (soundtrack)
- ?The Hustler (soundtrack)
In School of Rock
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- Film Music MapNL Map
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 2NL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Historical epic and sword-and-sandal film Genre
Alex North gave Spartacus (1960) a harder, more modern sound with dissonances and unusual tone colours.
- Jazz in film Genre
Alex North changed that with A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).