Posts Tagged ‘Alex North’
9 Favorite Scores of Alex North
Originally, this month’s “9 on the 9th” post was going to be dedicated to romantic film scores as a precursor to that evil holiday–Valentine’s Day. Then I realized most of what I had on the list was film music that made me cry. Since I had already visited that topic recently,...
February 9th, 2010 | 9 on the 9th | Read More
I’ll Cry Tomorrow
I’LL CRY TOMORROW contains one of Susan Hayward’s best performances as singer Lillian Roth (1910-1980). Once dubbed “Broadway’s Youngest Star,” Roth suffered through failed marriages, alcoholism, homelessness, and a suicide attempt. With the help of Alcoholics Anonymous,...
January 13th, 2010 | Trailers | Read More
Stella!
Wah-wah… With those two notes, Alex North’s groundbreaking score for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) ushered jazz elements into the world of dramatic film music. Jazz was no longer content to serve as mere source cues, and audiences didn’t know what to make of this new sound coming from the...
June 5th, 2009 | Trailers | Read More
Dance of the Dead
With its bleak vision of an alcoholic British diplomat in Mexico, Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 semi-autobiographical novel, UNDER THE VOLCANO, was considered unfilmmable for nearly forty years. Director John Huston returned to his beloved Mexico to film the picture in 1982.
When the film was released...
April 10th, 2009 | Cues | Read More
We Have Created Enchantment
The Music of A Streetcar Named Desire
Published in Film Score Monthly Online
May 2006
To step aboard A Streetcar Named Desire is to take an emotional and musical journey. Tennessee Williams’ poetic dialogue is music to the ears. And he set his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama in the New Orleans French...
March 15th, 2009 | Articles | Read More
CD Review: Death of a Salesman / Rashomon
Back in his days with Bay Cities and Fynsworth Alley, Bruce Kimmel produced albums that no one else would touch, many of which probably didn’t sell worth a damn. Two of my favorites include the complete spoken word album of Michael Frayn’s superb Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen and the...
March 3rd, 2009 | Reviews | Read More



