Alex North
Born Isadore Soifer
(1910-12-04)December 4, 1910
Chester, Pennsylvania
Died September 8, 1991(1991-09-08) (aged 80)
Los Angeles, California
Spouse Gladlynne Sherle Treihart (1941–1966)
Annemarie Hoellger
Anna Sokoloff

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!).

Born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania to Russian Jewish parents[1], North was an original composer probably even by the classical music standards of the day. However, he managed to integrate his modernism into typical film music leitmotif structure, rich with themes. One of these became the famous song, "Unchained Melody". Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone. North's frequent collaborator as orchestrator was the avant-garde composer Henry Brant. He won the 1968 Golden Globe award for his music to The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968).

His best-known film scores include The Rainmaker (1956), Spartacus (1960), The Misfits (1961),The Children's Hour (1961) Cleopatra (1963), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Devil's Brigade (1968), and Dragonslayer (1981). He composed the music for "The Wonderful Country" in a Mexican and southwestern US motif.

His commissioned score for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is notorious for having been discarded by director Stanley Kubrick. North reused themes from the rejected score for The Shoes of the Fisherman, Shanks (1974), and Dragonslayer, but the score itself was unheard until composer Jerry Goldsmith rerecorded it for Varèse Sarabande in 1993. In 2007, Intrada Records released North's personal copies of the 1968 recording sessions on CD.

North was also commissioned to write a jazz score for Nero Wolfe, a 1959 CBS-TV series based on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe characters, starring William Shatner as Archie Goodwin and Kurt Kasznar as Nero Wolfe.[2] A pilot and two or three episodes were filmed, but the designated time slot was, in the end, given to another series.[3][4] North's unheard score for Nero Wolfe and six recorded tracks on digital audio tape are in the UCLA Music Library Special Collections.[5]

Though North is best known for his work in Hollywood, he spent years in New York writing music for the stage; he composed the score, by turns plaintive and jarring, for the original Broadway production of Death of a Salesman. It was in New York that he met Elia Kazan (director of Salesman), who brought him to Hollywood in the '50s. North was one of several composers who brought the influence of contemporary concert music into film, in part marked by an increased use of dissonance and complex rhythms. But there is also a lyrical quality to much of his work which may be connected to the influence of Aaron Copland, with whom he studied.

His classical works include a Rhapsody for Piano, Trumpet obbligato and Orchestra. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his score for the 1976 television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. North is also known for his opening to the CBS television anthology series Playhouse 90 and the 1965 ABC television miniseries FDR.

Awards [link]

The American Film Institute ranked North's score for A Streetcar Named Desire #19 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the following films were also nominated for the list:

References [link]

  1. ^ [1], Alex North Biography
  2. ^ The Billboard, April 20, 1959, pp. 38 + 40
  3. ^ Shepard, Richard F., The New York Times, April 9, 1959
  4. ^ Ewald, William F., Television in Review (syndicated column), April 9, 1959
  5. ^ Wrobel, Bill, Film Score Rundowns, "CBS Collection 072 UCLA," Blog 42, June 25, 2010. The film score researcher identifies 30 CBS digital audio tapes in the UCLA Music Library Special Collections (p. 168), with tracks 86–91 of DAT #11 being the Nero Wolfe music of Alex North (p. 174). The score, CPN5912, is in Box #105 (p. 51).

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    Alex North

    ALBUMS

    Sounder / Decision for Chemistry

    Released 2014

    Hot Spell / The Matchmaker

    Released 2013

    Shanks

    Released 2012

    The Children's Hour

    Released 2010

    Spartacus

    Released 2010

    Death of a Salesman / Rashomon

    Released 2009

    The Devil's Brigade

    Released 2007

    Music for 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Released 2007

    I'll Cry Tomorrow

    Released 2004

    The Shoes of the Fisherman / Ice Station Zebra / Where Eagles Dare

    Released 2004

    The Misfits

    Released 2004

    All Fall Down / The Outrage

    Released 2003

    The Wonderful Country / The King And Four Queens

    Released 2003

    South Seas Adventure

    Released 2003

    The Racers / Daddy Long Legs

    Released 2002

    The Long, Hot Summer / Sanctuary

    Released 2002

    Africa

    Released 2001

    Cleopatra

    Released 2000

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Released 2000

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    Released 1995

    Alex North’s 2001: The Legendary Original Score

    Released 1993

    The Sound and the Fury

    Released 1991

    Under the Volcano

    Released 1991

    The Rose Tattoo

    Released 1990

    The Dead / Journey Into Fear

    Released 1987

    Cheyenne Autumn

    Released 1987

    Dragonslayer

    Released 1983

    Carny

    Released 1980

    The Long, Hot Summer

    Released 1958

    Viva Zapata! / The Children's Hour

    Willard

    The Devil's Brigade

    Born: 1910-12-04

    Died: 1991-09-08

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    Unchained Melody

    by: Alex North

    Oh, my love, my darling,
    I've hungered for your touch
    A long, lonely time.
    Time goes by so slowly
    And time can do so much,
    Are You Still Mine?
    I need your love,
    I need your love,
    God speed your love to me!
    Lonely rivers flow to the sea,
    To the sea,
    To the open arms of the sea.
    Lonely rivers sigh,
    "Wait for me, wait for me!"
    I'll be coming home, wait for me!
    Oh, my love, my darling,
    I've hungered for your touch
    A long, lonely time
    Time goes by so slowly
    And time can do so much,
    Are You Still Mine?
    I need your love,
    I need your love,
    God speed your love to me!
    Lonely mountains gaze at the stars,
    At the stars,
    Waiting for the dawn of the day.
    All alone, I gaze at the stars,
    At the stars,
    Dreaming of my love for away.
    Oh, my love, my darling,
    I've hungered for your touch
    A long, lonely time.
    Time goes by so slowly
    And time can do so much,
    Are You Still Mine?
    I need your love,
    I need your love,




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