The 2001: A Space Odyssey score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Stanley Kubrick commissioned North to write the score for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but decided not to use it in favor of previously recorded classical music. It is divided into two movements, corresponding to the first and second chapters of the film.
North, unaware that Kubrick had decided not to use the s...
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The 2001: A Space Odyssey score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Stanley Kubrick commissioned North to write the score for his film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but decided not to use it in favor of previously recorded classical music. It is divided into two movements, corresponding to the first and second chapters of the film.
North, unaware that Kubrick had decided not to use the score in his film, was "devastated" at the 1968 New York City premiere screening of 2001 not to hear his work, and later offered this account of his experience: "Well, what can I say? It was a great, frustrating experience, and despite the mixed reaction to the music, I think the Victorian approach with mid-European overtones was just not in keeping with the brilliant concept of Clarke and Kubrick."
On hearing the score as it might have been in the film, film scholar Gene Phillips argued that "it is difficult to see how North's music would have...
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