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 (film) essay "Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick" wrote, "Kubrick has conceived a film which in one stroke has made the whole science fiction cinema obsolete." Others credit "2001" with opening up a market for films such as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Contact", and "Interstellar", proving that big-budget "serious" science-fiction films can be commercially successful, and establishing the "sci-fi blockbuster" as a Hollywood staple. Science magazine "Discover"s blogger Stephen Cass, discussing the film's considerable impact on subsequent science fiction, writes that "the balletic spacecraft scenes set to sweeping classical music, the tarantula-soft tones of HAL 9000, and the