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1. Grand and epic, with a touch of pop sensibility, North’s music has provided years of listening pleasure ever since I found a reissue on MCA of the old soundtrack album. But the album can’t compare to Film Score Monthly’s excellent presentation of the entire score, complete with source cues. 2. .

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2. Lillian Hellman's study of the devastating effect of malicious slander and implied guilt comes to the screen for the second time in this crackling production of The Children's Hour. William Wyler.

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3. Alex North discography and songs: Music profile for Alex North, born 4 December Genres: Film Score, Cinematic Classical, Film Soundtrack. Albums include Spartacus, Ghost, and Cleopatra.

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4. New CD Price: $ Spartacus (complete album masters) () Spartacus (complete album masters) Varese Sarabande Club The Children's Hour () The Children's Hour Kritzerland KR Spartacus (Limited Edition 6CD) () The Film Music of Alex North The Film Music of Alex North Nonesuch North of Hollywood North of Hollywood.

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5. Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, – September 8, ) 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.

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6. For The Children’s Hour, Wyler turned to Alex North. Interestingly, both had just come off huge epic films – Wyler with Ben-Hur and North with Spartacus. So for both, The Children’s Hour could not have been more different; a drama filmed in black-and-white, with nary a toga, a .

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7. The Children's Hour means a great deal to me. Alex North has composed his most beautiful score for this most touching film. The fact that Audrey Hepburn owned a painting of mine and I heard from her just before her passing makes this lovely score all the more beautiful. Audrey Hepburn was simply a 5/5(3).

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8. The Children's Hour, an Album by Alex North. Released 5 January on Kritzerland (catalog no. KR ; CD). Genres: Film Score. Featured peformers: Alex North (composer, conductor, aka_text orchestration role_id aka_text), Urban Thielmann (aka_text {orchestra contractor} role_id aka_text), Louis Kaufman (violin, soloist), Victor Arno (violin), Israel Baker (violin), George.

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