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Tribute to film composer Alex North - live stream online today
KUSC - FM 91.5 - Los Angeles | October 24, 2010

Posted on 10/24/2010 10:03:34 AM PDT by EveningStar

Unchained Melodies: A Centennial Tribute to Alex North

Sunday, October 24th

2-4 PM Pacific / 3-5 PM Mountain / 4-6 PM Central / 5-7 PM Eastern

Film composer Alex North, who would have turned 100 this year, will be celebrated in a two-hour radio special – “Unchained Melodies: A Centennial Tribute to Alex North” – airing at 2 PM Sunday, October 24, on Classical KUSC.
 
North, composer of such landmark movie scores as A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus and Cleopatra, was a 15-time Oscar nominee and the first composer ever to receive an honorary Academy Award (in 1986) for his body of work. Selections from these three film scores are among more than two dozen works by North to be featured in the program...

Other film scores will include Viva Zapata!, The Misfits, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the original London recording of North’s unused music for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Television scores represented in the program will include a miniature ballet written for the 1950s variety series Your Show of Shows, plus the themes for Playhouse 90 and Rich Man, Poor Man...

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: alexnorth; filmmusic

1 posted on 10/24/2010 10:03:37 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Borges; sitetest

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2 posted on 10/24/2010 10:04:55 AM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: DollyCali

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3 posted on 10/24/2010 10:05:47 AM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar

Thanks!


4 posted on 10/24/2010 10:32:24 AM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: EveningStar

Hollywood produced some of the greatest jazz composers and arrangers who turned out scores not only for major films but many TV series. Henry Mancini and Jerry Goldsmith are also some great composers who worked in Hollywood.


5 posted on 10/24/2010 10:51:30 AM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: All
Here are a couple of scenes from the 1960 film Spartacus, accompanied by Alex North's score:

Main title

Battle

6 posted on 10/24/2010 10:54:17 AM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. Rerecorded in 1965, it became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages.

In 1955, North used the music as a for the prison film Unchained, hence the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unchained_Melody

7 posted on 10/24/2010 12:29:17 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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To: EveningStar; .30Carbine; 1cewolf; 1rudeboy; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 31R1O; ADemocratNoMore; ...
Dear EveningStar,

Thanks for the ping!

Classical Music Ping List ping!

If you want on or off this list, let me know via FR e-mail.

Thanks,


sitetest

8 posted on 10/24/2010 1:13:44 PM PDT by sitetest ( If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: EveningStar; .30Carbine; 1cewolf; 1rudeboy; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 31R1O; ADemocratNoMore; ...
Dear EveningStar,

Thanks for the ping!

Classical Music Ping List ping!

If you want on or off this list, let me know via FR e-mail.

Thanks,


sitetest

9 posted on 10/24/2010 1:15:54 PM PDT by sitetest ( If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: All
Internet Movie Database

Internet Broadway Database

Alex North Music

Wikipedia

10 posted on 10/24/2010 2:05:41 PM PDT by EveningStar (Karl Marx is not one of our Founding Fathers.)
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11 posted on 10/24/2010 2:58:43 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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BTTT


12 posted on 10/24/2010 3:08:13 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: EveningStar

WOW! I thought it was called “Unchained” because it DID NOT follow the usual I,vi,IV,V, chord progression, but “wandered off”! That was MY theory, but I guess I was thinking like a MUSICIAN! Love the song, and the Composer.


13 posted on 10/24/2010 3:27:32 PM PDT by left that other site (Your MiQ-MaQ Paddy Wacky Bass-Playing Biker Buddy(El Kabong))
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