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) be a primarily nonverbal experience that did not rely on the traditional techniques of narrative cinema, and in which music would play a vital role in evoking particular moods. About half the music in the film appears either before the first line of dialogue or after the final line. Almost no music is heard during any scenes with dialogue. The film is notable for its innovative use of classical music taken from existing commercial recordings. Most feature films then and now are typically accompanied by elaborate film scores or songs written specially for them by professional composers. In the early