Atmosphères Radio Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour. Kubrick would go on to employ other Ligeti compositions in his films "The Shining" and "Eyes Wide Shut". According to program notes published by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Ligeti was not pleased that his music occurred in a film soundtrack shared by composers Johann and Richard Strauss. Nevertheless, the piece has been performed in concert several times with other works featured in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey", such as a 2010 performance by the Nashville Symphony which performed it along with the full-length version of Richard Strauss' "Thus Spake Zarathustra". A 2006
2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) the soundtrack album gives the former, the movie's credits give the latter). The theme is used both at the start and at the conclusion of the film. Also memorable in the film is its use of parts of Johann Strauss II's best-known waltz, "An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)", during the extended space-station docking. Composers Richard and Johann Strauss are not related. In addition to the majestic yet fairly traditional compositions by the two Strausses and Aram Khachaturian, Kubrick used four highly modernistic compositions by György Ligeti which employ micropolyphony, the use of sustained dissonant chords