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Alex North Collection of Motion Picture Music,1951-1969 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft2j49n6fx No online items Finding Aid for the Alex North Collection of Motion Picture Music , 1951-1969 Collection processed and machine-readable finding aid created by UCLA Library Special Collections staff. UCLA Library Special Collections University of California, Los Angeles, Library UCLA Library Special Collections, Room A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 Phone: (310) 825-4988 Fax: (310) 206-1864 Email: [email protected] http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/performingarts/index.cfm © 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Note Arts and Humanities--Music Finding Aid for the Alex North PASC-M 17 1 Collection of Motion Picture Music , 1951-1969 Finding Aid of the Alex North Collection of Motion Picture Music,1951-1969 Collection number: 17 UCLA Library, UCLA Library Special Collections University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Contact Information University of California, Los Angeles, Library UCLA Library Special Collections, Room A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 Phone: (310) 825-4988 Fax: (310) 206-1864 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/performingarts/index.cfm Processed by: UCLA Library Special Collections staff Date Completed: 1968 Encoded by: Bryan Griest © 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Alex North Collection of Motion Picture Music, Date (inclusive): 1951-1969 Collection number: PASC-M 17 Creator: North, Alex Extent: 83 boxes (41.5 linear ft.) Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. UCLA Library Special Collections Los Angeles, California 90095-1575 Abstract: This collection consists of holograph scores with occasional holograph music notes Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information. Language: English. Restrictions on Use and Reproduction Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright. Restrictions on Access Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Alex North; gift; 1976. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Alex North Collection of Motion Picture Music, PASC-M 17, UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles. Finding Aid for the Alex North PASC-M 17 2 Collection of Motion Picture Music , 1951-1969 Biography North was born on Dec. 4, 1910, in Chester, PA; attended the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, and Moscow Conservatory; became music director of the German Theater Group and the Latvian State Theater, and the only American member of the Union of Soviet Composers; returned to the US in 1935; studied with Ernst Toch and Aaron Copland in NY, and composed ballet scores for Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Agnes de Mille; composed for the NY stage, including scores for Life and death of an American (1939), Of V we sing (1942), and Death of a salesman (1949); wrote music for some 50 documentary shorts between 1937-50; in 1939 went to Mexico as music director for the Anna Sokolow dance troupe and studied with Silvestre Revueltas; served as a captain in the US Army in World War II; his Revue for clarinet and orchestra was performed by Benny Goodman and the NY Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein in 1946; began scoring feature films in the early 1950s, becoming a leading Hollywood composer; his musical language encompasses dissonance and lyricism, and ranges from chamber to symphonic proportions; he was nominated for 15 Academy Awards but did not win one until 1986, when the Motion Picture Academy presented him with an honorary life-achievement award; died in 1991. Scope and Content Collection consists of Alex North's holograph scores, with occasional holograph music notes, for the following motion pictures: The agony and the ecstasy (1965), All fall down (1962), The bachelor party (1957), The bad seed (1956), Cheyenne autumn (1964), The children's hour (1962), Cinerama South Seas adventure (1958), Cleopatra (1963), Death of a salesman (1951), Desiree (1954), Devil's brigade (1968), A dream of kings (1969), Go man go (1954), Hard contract (1969), Hot spell (1958), I'll cry tomorrow (1955), The king & four queens (1956), The long hot summer (1958), Man with the gun (1955), A member of the wedding (1953), Les miserables (1952), The misfits (1961), The outrage (1964), Pony soldier (1952), The racers (1955), The rainmaker (1956), The rose tattoo (1955), Sanctuary (1961), Shoes of the fisherman (1968), Spartacus (1960), Stagestruck (1958), A streetcar named Desire (1955), The thirteenth letter (1951), Unchained (1955), Viva Zapata (1952), Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966), The wonderful country (1959), 2001, a space odyssey (1968), Symphony to a new continent, and Somebody killed her husband (1978). Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. North,Alex--Archives. Composers--United States--Archival resources. Motion picture music--Scores. Music--Manuscripts. The Agony and the Ecstasy [20th Century-Fox, 1965] Box 1, Folder 1 North, Alex. (148 leaves) [Holograph, in pencil, of musical score]. Cue Reel/Part, Title, Leaves Othertype 1 1 Main title Physical Description: 6 [1-6] Othertype 1 2 Enemy-distance; Pope's army Physical Description: 15 [7-21] Othertype 1 3 Marble: sketch #1 Physical Description: 3 [22-24] Othertype 3 1 12 Apostles: sketch #1 Physical Description: 4 [27-30] Othertype 3 1 12 Apostles Physical Description: 3 [31=33] Othertype 4 3, Apostle's Sketch [rough] Othertype 5 1 Physical Description: 6 [34-39] Finding Aid for the Alex North PASC-M 17 3 Collection of Motion Picture Music , 1951-1969 The Agony and the Ecstasy [20th Century-Fox, 1965] Othertype 4 3, Apostle's sketch Othertype 5 1 Physical Description: 4 [40-43] Othertype 5 4 Sketch destroyed [rough] Physical Description: 1 [44] Othertype 5 4 Sketch destroyed Physical Description: 1 [45] Othertype 6 4, Refuge [rough] Othertype 7 1 Physical Description: 2 [46-47] Othertype 6 4, Refuge Othertype 7 1 Physical Description: 2 [48-49] Othertype 7 2 Genesis [rough] Physical Description: 6 [50-55] Othertype 7 2 Genesis Physical Description: 6 [56-61] Othertype 7 3 [Battlefield scene] Physical Description: 19 [62-80] Othertype 7 4, The Sistine Chapel Othertype 8 1 Physical Description: 5 [81-85] Othertype 8 4, Painting [rough] Othertype 9 1, Physical Description: 4 [86-89] Othertype 9 2 Othertype 8 4, Painting Othertype 9 1, Physical Description: 4 [90-93] Othertype 9 2 Othertype 9 3 St. Peter's Physical Description: 1 [94] Othertype 10 1 Blind Physical Description: 7 [95-101] Othertype 10 2 Festivity Physical Description: 11 [102-112] Othertype 11 1 Original sketch not returned [no music] Physical Description: 1 [113] Othertype 11 3, Recruiting Othertype 12 1 Physical Description: 11 [114-124] Othertype 12 2 To battle Physical Description: 8 [125-132] Othertype 13 1 Defeat Physical Description: 10 [133-142] Finding Aid for the Alex North PASC-M 17 4 Collection of Motion Picture Music , 1951-1969 The Agony and the Ecstasy [20th Century-Fox, 1965] Othertype 14 1 Julius Physical Description: 4 [143-146] Othertype 16 4 End title cast Physical Description: 2 [147-148] All Fall Down [MGM, 1962] Box , Folder 2 North,Alex. (60 leaves) [Cue chart with titles, timings, orchestrations, and notes] - 1 leaf, (back of blank score), pencil. [Holograph, in pencil, of musical score]. Othertype 1 1 Main title Physical Description: 6 [1-6] Othertype 2 1 Bridge #1 Physical Description: 1 [7] Othertype 2 2 Bridge #2 Physical Description: 1 [8] Othertype 2 3 Bridge #3 Physical Description: 1 [9] Othertype 2 6 So long Physical Description: 2 [10-11] Othertype 3 2 Diary Physical Description: 1 [12] Othertype 3 2 Diary #1 (new) Physical Description: 1 [13] Othertype 4 3 You just feel it Physical Description: 1 [14] Othertype 4 3 You just feel it/new revised Physical Description: ] [15] Othertype 4 4, You're my guy Othertype 5 A1 Physical Description: 1 [16] Othertype 5 3 The past Physical Description: 3 [17-19] Othertype 5 4, Still my guy Othertype 6 1 Physical Description: 1 [20] Othertype 7 1 Alone Physical Description: 3 [21-23] Othertype 7 2 Spring Physical Description: 1 [24] Othertype 8 1 Hate life Physical Description: 2 [25-26] Finding Aid for the Alex North PASC-M 17 5 Collection of Motion Picture Music , 1951-1969 All Fall Down [MGM, 1962] Othertype 8 3 Take it easy Physical Description: 2 [27-28] Othertype 9 2 Conflict Physical Description: 3 [29-31] Othertype 9 5, Goes double Othertype 10 1, Physical Description: 2 [32-33] Othertype 10 2 Othertype 10 4 Trouble Physical Description: 1 [34] Othertype 10 5 Shut up Physical Description: 9 [35-43] Othertype 11 1 Pregnant Physical Description: 3 [44-46] Othertype 11 2 Decision Physical Description: 6 [47-52] Othertype 12 1A Revenge Physical Description: 2 [53-54]
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