
	Where results make sense

Topic: Alex North

Related Topics

Viva Zapata

Academy Award for Original Music Score

With a Song in My Heart

Ron Grainer

LexCorp

Theda Bara

Richard Strauss

Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Sejny

Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Academy Award for Best Picture

Discworld 1

Eleatics

Heliport

In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Hurricane Alex (2004) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alex produced strong waves and rip tides along the East Coast of the United States, causing one death and several injuries.
		Alex's outer rainbands produced heavy rainfall across Virginia, peaking at over 7 inches (178 mm) in the center of the state.
		Alex's extratropical remnants sank the Pink Lady, a rowboat carrying four British rowers attempting to break the record for fastest crossing from St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Alex_(2004) (1463 words)

	Alex North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alex North (December 4, 1910 - September 8, 1991) was an American composer responsible for the first jazz based film score (A Streetcar Named Desire) and the first truly modernist film score (Viva Zapata!
		Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, Alex North was an original composer probably even by the classical music standards of the day.
		Nominated for an Oscar 15 times, Alex North is the only film composer to win the lifetime achievement Oscar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alex_North (272 words)

	Alex North: Cleopatra
		Alex North wrote the music for several other epics besides this one for Fox's legendary 1963 blockbuster, restored, and released this spring on DVD, in its correct aspect ratio, with an accompanying "making of " documentary.
		Though North preferred to write for small-scaled films where he could connect with the characters, his huge score for Spartacus (1960) is often cited as one of the greatest, if not the greatest scores for ever composed for film.
		North makes her anguish for her lover palpable by writing it scordatura, the pitches are deliberately mistuned to make it more expressive and dramatic.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Cleopatra.htm (613 words)

	2001 A Space Odyssey - Original soundtrack by Alex North, commissioned but unused by Stanley Kubrick, conducted by ...
		In briefing North, he had made it clear that he was quite attached to some of his temporary tracks which were all classical works, but nevertheless he wanted North to produce a score for this great film.
		North set to work, all the time discussing, playing and polishing his ideas with the director, and the tracks were duly recorded to Kubrick's apparent satisfaction.
		North's music was composed solely for the purpose of supporting this monumental film, and this it does so skillfully and confidently.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /reviews/alex-norths-2001-a-space-odyssey.htm (1256 words)

	Alex North: North By North
		Although composer Henry Brant believes that his friend Alex North (1910-1991), for whom he orchestrated several landmark scores, suffered acutely at the hands of insensitive Hollywood producer/directors, you'd hardly know it from this disc.
		North takes a basic ABA structure and frames it with a short poetic introduction and a mini coda: a solo oboe with softly thrumming strings is followed by an intricate bridge and an intense yet contained crescendo.
		North's habit of casting his work in his own versions of classical forms gives it integrity, depth, and listenability.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/AlexNorth.html (549 words)

	SoundtrackCollector: Composer Details: Alex North
		North's daring and emotional integrity can be felt in his music and is reflected in his life choices.
		It is North's emotional integrity that led critic Brooks Atkinson, of New York, to say of one of his theater scores: "Alex North has composed a witch's chorus that is pithy, practical, and terrifying.
		North a theme, and he goes straight to the heart of it without any musical pretensions." This became one of North's favorite assessments of his work.
	www.soundtrackcollector.com /catalog/composerdetail.php?composerid=124 (902 words)

	Alex North, composer - from stage to screen
		Born in Pennsylvania, Alex North's parents were of Russian descent and later he was to attend the Moscow Conservatory for two years of study.
		North's early film career was to maintain a link with the stage, with a number of screen adaptations including another by Tennessee Williams "The Rose Tatoo", and theatrical movies like "Les Miserables" and "Desiree" not to mention "Stage Struck".
		North's music however was quite clearly from the 20th century (in his use of modern harmonies and thematic intensities as well as the seemless inclusion of popular idioms like Jazz).
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Alex-North.htm (1569 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		Alex North (1910-1991) took home a Lifetime Achievement Oscar from the Academy Awards in 1986, honoring a career that produced scores for over 50 feature films and over 80 documentaries.
		North studied at the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Moscow Conservatory.
		"Alex North was a genius and this is exhibited across his entire body of work," says Robert Townson, the executive producer for the double-CD restoration of the original Cleopatra soundtrack issued by Varèse Sarabande last year.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=903 (781 words)

	Alex North
		Alex was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on December 4, 1910.
		On his discharge Alex was commissioned by Benny Goodman to write “Revue for Clarinet and Orchestra.” This was premiered in New York by Goodman and the City Symphony under Leonard Bernstein.
		The first Alex North symphony came in 1947, followed by his highly applauded music for theatre: Death Of A Salesman, The Innocents, A Streetcar Named Desire, etc. His music for the subsequent films of Streetcar and Salesman followed.
	www.jazzprofessional.com /interviews/AlexNorth.htm (957 words)

	Filmtracks: Cleopatra (Alex North)
		North's music for the film was very typical of his swing towards "modernism" in film music that would influence composers of the Silver Age of film scoring (especially Jerry Goldsmith).
		When North recorded Cleopatra, the composition was so complex that he had several different tapes of the guitars, strings, percussion, brass, etc, all made separately for final mixing at the end of the process.
		North's score is highlighted by its intimate string performances, guiding the two main themes for the two couples, and these moments particularly sound good.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/cleopatra.html (1919 words)

	Alex North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		North wrote scores in New York for the Federal Theater project, worked as Martha Graham's rehearsal pianist—he wrote the 1937 dance American Lyric for her company—and did ballets for Hanya Holm, and most importantly, for Anna Sokolow, who left Graham to form her own company.
		North became her music director and accompanied Soklolow and her troupe on a tour of Mexico in 1939.
		North wrote more than 50 film scores, but despite 15 nominations for Oscars, he didn't return home with a statue until he won the Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1986.
	alexnorthmusic.com /bio.html (1219 words)

	Filmtracks: Africa (Alex North)
		Alex North's music doesn't really help the film today, because it, too, stands as a relic of that era of television scoring.
		While North remains a composer of interest for fans of modern film scores (like Herrmann, but not to the same extent), his score for Africa will likely alienate anyone who is accustomed to the harmonies of modern television and film scoring.
		North's music of this time, elaborated upon for a modern audience by Jerry Goldsmith for Planet of the Apes, is dissonant, tinny (even without issues of recording quality), atonal, and precussively abrasive.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/africa.html (784 words)

	Alex North
		Alex North didn't begin his film career until he was forty years old when director Elia Kazan invited him to come to Hollywood to score the film version of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.
		With that one score, North made history, ushering in jazz as dramatic underscoring, and was one of a handful of new American composers who brought a modern voice to the world of film music.
		North was born in Chester, Pennsylvania and studied at the Curtis Insitute of Music in Philadelphia, the Juilliard School, and the Moscow Conservatory of Music.
	www.settling-the-score.com /north.html (661 words)

	Alex North: Viva Zapata
		Alex North was never to win an Academy Award - though near the end of his life (1986) he was finally awarded an honorary Oscar for the brilliant artistry of his career achievement.
		North had spent two years in Mexico, studied with Silvestre Revueltas and had the rhythms and instrumentation of modern Mexican music down pat.
		North's only flirtation with "pop" success was the now-perennial melody from an obscurity called Unchained (1955), but reprised for mammoth box office at the beginning of this decade in Ghost.
	www.audiophilia.com /software/da20.htm (845 words)

	Amazon.com: Alex North's 2001: Music: National Philharmonic Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		North could not have matched either the Imperialistic bombast of Strauss (too Leftist) nor the astringency of Ligeti (too tonal), neither could he have provided a waltz with built-in associations of vieled sexuality like "The Blue Danube." Kubrick was among other things, a master pornographer, especially of machines.
		North was fully conversant with all modes of modernist symphonic composition, and he uses them fluidly, but the edge of invention that 2001 needed was missing; North did not have it in him.
		Alex North had good ideas with this music and i'm glad Varese Sarabande released it to the public instead of locking it away somewhere.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000014T6?v=glance (1565 words)

	Spartacus - Alex North
		Alex North really deserved to work with high calibre directors and while there were some good directors with whom he worked, only Kubrick is really note worthy today and that was only one successful joint venture.
		I've always maintained that Alex North's orchestral scores are actually a lot more accesible than many of his contemporaries, they seem to have a more timeless quality that say Miklos Rozsa or Alfred Newman, but without the claustrophobic intensity of someone like Bernard Herrmann.
		The romantic music is perhaps where North veers more toward a traditional Hollywood feel to writing; the theme is string laden and somewhat syrupy, but just about avoids being grating, given enough alternate variations and orchestrations to prevent it becoming too wearing.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/spartacus.htm (655 words)

	Amazon.com: The Agony And The Ecstasy (1965 Film - 1997 Score Rerecording): Music: Alex North,Jerry Goldsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		North's epic sweep and his mixture of Renaissance musical forms, somber religious chords, plainsong melody, and march beats congeal into a symphonic grandeur faithful to the film's equally larger-than-life subject matter--inspiration's heavenly spark.
		North was already challenged by composing in the shadow of the great painter; Goldsmith, who in turn subordinates himself to reworking another composer's score, delivers a noble show of functional competence that, while less than inspiring, is nonetheless a faithful re-creation that should please connoisseurs of classic movie music.
		Alex North is probably the John Williams of his time besides Bernard Hermann.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009NSY?v=glance (980 words)

	Africa - Alex North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I assumed it would take a modestly standard approach which would emphasise the expanses of wilderness, but North choose to score it in such a way that he highlighted the brutal and primitive elements.
		Little of the music on the disc is easy listening and the first movement of the symphony is almost entirely atonal, with mixtures of percussion, dissonant strings and occasional hits from the brass and woodwinds.
		However, at a purely technical level, North's music is yet another example of his position as being one of the most accomplished composers ever to write for cinema.
	www.soundtrack-express.com /osts/africa.htm (523 words)

	Movie Music UK - Alex North
		Alex North was one of the most respected composers ever to work in film.
		North studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, the Juilliard School in New York (where he was a protégé of Aaron Copland), and at the Moscow Conservatory.
		Similarly, North wrote and recorded a full symphonic score for Kubrick's masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1968, only for it to be rejected by the testy director and replaced with classical cuts by Strauss, Khactaturian and Holst.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /north.htm (660 words)

	Alex North Photos - Alex North News - Alex North Information
		Alex North was born Alexis Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania on December 10, 1910 to parents of Russian descent.
		As a youngster Alex spent time working in Atlantic City, where he learned about jazz from the local musicians.
		Tell the world what you think of Alex North, write a review for this person.
	www.tv.com /alex-north/person/153777/summary.html (182 words)

	Bay Cities Soundtrack Album Notes
		A clue to this ability to communicate on an almost extra-sensory level can be found in North's admission, "I find it practically impossible to score anything that does not move me emotionally." It is an admission that reveals the nature of the man - a man of sensitivity and compassion as well as extraordinary musicianship.
		North came to film scoring with a great deal of experience in many areas of composition.
		North was particularly interested in writing for the ballet theatre and his success in this regard widened to include composing incidental scores for stage plays.
	members.aol.com /jabwocky/baycities/notes.htm (6937 words)

	Alex North: Cleopatra
		It is an interesting irony that, in the year which gave title to the most notorious aborted soundtrack in film music history, Alex North's original score for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the most significant film music event should be the first official CD release of a score even older.
		For it was with North's lacerating music for A Streetcar Named Desire, and his chamber minimalism for Death of a Salesman (both 1951) that Hollywood music left the 19th century for good.
		North's revolutionary approach offers endless rewards in the complexities of the dramatic narrative, the tensions between ambition and lust (both reel and real, in the recently inaugurated Taylor-Burton romance), and the very size and strangeness of the backdrop.
	www.audiophilia.com /software/da65.htm (1097 words)

	Footlight.com > North, Alex
		World premiere recording of Alex North's original score for 2001 that was never used!
		All music composed and conducted by Alex North.
		Alex North's great score to The Shoes of the Fisherman.
	www.footlight.com /artist.cfm?artist_id=4238 (378 words)

	Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
		It supports the ability to search within the texts of documents, a Did You Mean service a la Google, and many more downloading options including plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, Palm DOC or eReader, Rocket eBook, and Newton Paperback.
		It does not have nearly the amount of content of the original Alex, yet.
	www.infomotions.com /alex (109 words)

	Cleopatra by Alex North (--) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the Oscar-nominated score to the 1963 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison.
		The epic was nominated for 9 Oscars, and won 4 (Alex North did not win).
		This music is the stuff those old classic epic scores are made of--you know what I am talking about, dramatic orchestral pomp and grandeur, with a touch of Middle Eastern of course.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/old1/cleopatra.html (118 words)

	eBay - alex north, CDs, Records items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Agony and The Ecstasy ALEX NORTH GOLDSMITH VARESE
		ALEX NORTH - THE BAD SEED - OOP RARE SOUNDTRACK LP
		Alex North OST - The Misfits - Marilyn Monroe
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=alex+north&newu=1&krd=1 (419 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)