Alex North

Composer

1910-12-04 – 1991-09-08

Alex North was an American composer known for influential film scores, including Spartacus and A Streetcar Named Desire. He was among the early composers to integrate jazz idioms into Hollywood scoring. He died in Los Angeles in 1991.

Quotes by Alex North

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
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The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
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