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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

“It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words,” said director Stanley Kubrick of his 1968 science-fiction epic. “2001 is a non-verbal experience.”

And of course music plays a huge role in that, with around half of it used in the movie either before the first line of the film’s limited dialogue, or after the last.

We might pity the composer Alex North, whom Kubrick commissioned to score 2001. Only when he went to see the movie