Alex North

United States
December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991

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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?. He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award but never won a competitive Oscar despite fifteen nominations.

For the last 14 days:

16 tracks
49 stations
10 countries

Alex North top songs

1	Food
2	Spartacus - Love Theme
3	Ghost - Unchained Melody
4	Unchained Melody (Ghost)
5	Main Title
6	Reno Bar Dance
7	Unchained Melody
8	Space Station Docking
9	Main Title
10	Thorn of the Roses (From "The Rose Tattoo")
11	Main Title
12	Rendezvous
13	Love Theme from Spartacus
14	Cleopatra
15	End Title (From "The Last Butterfly")
16	Caesar & Cleopatra

Alex North quotes

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.