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The original three-track score masters had been kept at Anvil Studios in England as late as 1980, but were later erased when the Anvil facility closed. All that remained of the original tracks were mono fold down tapes kept by North's family.
Mar 7, 2020 · Composers William V. Malpede and Edwin Wendler take an in-depth look at one of the premier legends of film composing, Alex North, and examine one of the great mysteries of film scoring history: how his score to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 blockbuster 2001: A Space Odyssey was rejected.
https://scoringarts.com -- This excerpt comes from our March 7, 2020 event presented by composers William V. Malpede and Edwin Wendler, which took an in-dept...
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Mar 28, 2009 · KPCC's Program Director and Classical Music aficionado Craig Curtis explains what happened to Alex North's unused score for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Dec 23, 2014 · It’s a perfect pairing of sound and image, but it almost never happened: Kubrick initially hired Alex North, a renowned film composer, to write the film’s music. Below is the opening act of...
I worked very closely with him, I went to see him in his home, we spoke a lot about it and unfortunately he had a temp score, which is always detrimental to a composer. He eventually used it. Well, you know the story of the temp score; he’d been listening to it for 4 years…
Dec 26, 2014 · In fact, North composed an entire score for the film, which Kubrick ultimately discarded. If you haven't seen it before, below you can watch a clip of the opening featuring the original...
