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 ...
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 ...