{"id":4127,"date":"2018-11-15T15:06:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2018-11-15T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T23:06:31","slug":"the-music-of-stanley-kubrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2018\/11\/the-music-of-stanley-kubrick.html","title":{"rendered":"The Music of Stanley Kubrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A FEW months ago I went to see a restored 70 mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>, and film I had not seen (I realized) in decades. A number of things struck me, among them how beautifully and in some ways unconventionally Kubrick used the music in the film. (Of course, the the slow, ruminative, color-soaked grandeur of the movie was also very hard to miss.)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is of course not the only time Kubrick has done something smart, imaginative, or shocking wit the music in his films. He’s a fascinating character: I know as many people from the literary world or from rock bands who revere Kubrick as I do among the cinephile crowd.<\/p>\n

Over Thanksgiving, the LA Philharmonic will present the music from five of Kubrick’s movies — from 2001<\/em> to Eyes Wide Shut<\/em> — with scenes projected above the orchestra. Here’s<\/a> my piece for Los Angeles magazine.<\/p>\n

(I get a slight kick out of the name of the Phil’s project —\u00a0“Stanley Kubrick’s Sound Odyssey”; the hometown record store where I bought my first albums was called Sound Odyssey.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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