Brant had helped North with the orchestration in 1967-68, as North had to be taken to the recording session in an ambulance due to muscle spasms and back pain brought on by the stress of completing the score. The album features nine tracks from the score, as well as an alternate version of the track "The Foraging." In addition, the album features three bonus tracks, all of additional takes of other tracks on the album. The release was authorized by the family of North, the estate of Stanley Kubrick, Dylanna Music, North's music publishing company, and other entities (the film's current rights holder, Turner Entertainment, did not take part in this CD release). In January 2007, Intrada Records issued 3000 copies of a limited edition CD featuring North's original recording of the score from 1968. Jerry Goldsmith recording Alex North's 2001: It would eventually be recycled by North for his later scores to Shanks, Dragonslayer and The Shoes of the Fisherman. 2, by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and there it was titled "Fanfare for 2001" (it would therefore be the world's first exposure to North's unused 2001 music). This theme music made its public debut in early 1993 as part of the Telarc compilation CD Hollywood's Greatest Hits, Vol. The original theme was listed on North's original score sheet as "Bones." It would have been used three times in the film, once as the main title music, and again during the opening "Dawn of Man" sequence as an ape smashes skeletal remains (hence the score sheet's title), and finally at the end of the film during the "Starchild" scene. All that remained of the original tracks were mono fold down tapes kept by North's family.Īlex North's main title theme has a striking resemblance to the " Also sprach Zarathustra" piece that would eventually be used in the final film. The original three-track score masters had been kept at Anvil Studios in England as late as 1980, but were later erased when the Anvil facility closed.
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." Why use music which is less good when there is such a multitude of great orchestral music available from the past and from our own time? When you are editing a film, it's very helpful to be able to try out different pieces of music to see how they work with the scene.Well, with a little more care and thought, these temporary tracks can become the final score. However good our best film composers may be, they are not a Beethoven, a Mozart or a Brahms. In an interview with Michel Ciment, Kubrick explained: Eventually, a mono mix-down of North's original recordings, which had survived in the interim, would be released as a limited edition CD by Intrada Records. All the music North originally wrote was recorded commercially by North's friend and colleague Jerry Goldsmith with the National Philharmonic Orchestra and was released on Varèse Sarabande CDs shortly after Telarc's first theme release but before North's death. 2, a compilation album by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. The world's first exposure to North's unused music was in 1993 via Telarc's issue of the main theme on Hollywood's Greatest Hits, Vol. North did not know of the abandonment of the score until after he saw the film's premiere screening. However, during post-production, Kubrick chose to abandon North's music in favor of classical music pieces he had earlier chosen as "guide pieces" for the soundtrack. Strangelove, to write the score of his upcoming film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the early stages of production, Kubrick had commissioned noted Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for Spartacus and also worked on Dr. 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.
For the film's actual score, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack).
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