2001: A Space Odyssey Live in Concert

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Photo courtesy of L'Auditori

Apart from the spectacular visions of space, the film is surprising for the use of symphonic music, which is featured throughout almost the entire film. Works by composers such as György Ligeti and Strauss himself became popular thanks to the musical selection made by Stanley Kubrick over 50 years ago.

The first thing that strikes us at the beginning of the film is the music, with its sustained, intense chords, broken by the iconic timpani hits, written by Richard Strauss in the late 19th century. The composer would never have dreamed that this music would become a sound icon in the history of cinema.

Later in the film, we have Viennese waltzes, contemporary music, fragments of a Requiem. Classical music to accompany futuristic spacecraft that moves through space.

The film will be shown in the original version with Catalan subtitles.

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