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Risk-taking and exhilarating, Alex North's music for Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) explores a territory bounded by jazz, modernist currents, and the composer's idiosyncratic poignancy. Anticipating the rhythms of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story by six years, North's use of jazz was a perfect choice given the unsparing of this Tennessee Williams drama, once described by the author as "a tragedy of misunderstanding and insensitivity to others." Ringing with the freshness and energy of New Orelans, North's music represents the first time that an American film score used jazz for dramatic purposes. Also
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Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
Release date: 20 November 1995
EAN: 4005939550028
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