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Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Isadore Soifer
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- September 8, 1991 (aged 80), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- December 4, 1910, Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Oct 20, 2021 · Praise for Alex North’s Oscar-nominated score for Elian Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) from Miles Davis no less. The quote comes from an interview in Downbeat published four years after the release of the film.
Composer Alex North (1910–1991) therefore rose to the challenge of capturing Williams’s new, richly complex attitude toward the South. The music he provided explored dual registers, representing both DuBois’s fractured, nostalgic view of her region and the rest of the characters’ seedier modern experience of inner-city New Orleans.
This is the soundtrack for Elia Kazan’s 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play. Unusually for its time, Alex North’s score uses jazz not for numbers in a musical, but as...
