It was 1970. I was a freshman at U of I in Champaign/Urbana, My parents were mad at me because they thought I was the long haired kid pictured on the front page of the Daily Illini protesting the Vietnam war. So they said don't come to Chicago for Christmas. I was by myself during the Xmas break. While the snow drifted over the dorms, I listened to this and for the first time understood the glory of solitude.
I first read this comment 4 or 5 years ago. Every now and then I come back to this video, to find some comfort in the melancholy that emanates from this tune. And I always end up re-reading this comment. If there was some kind of 'literature prize' for RUclips comments, I would recommend this one.
@@damiaorodrigues2680 SUCH a wonderful, powerful comment, Mr. Damiao!! Paul Miller 's reminiscence is so sad, yet precious & touching, at the same time. And yes, this is a SPLENDID piece of music!!!
Paul Miller KUDOS & much respect to you, Sir, for sharing precious and powerful recollections~a bit sad for sure, from a time in the past filled with corruption, injustice & oppression. I do sincerely HOPE you were eventually able to reconcile with, and forgive, your parents and that they ultimately came to honest terms with the clear truth of what was going on in our country, at that time. Your musical "discovery of solitude": resonates SO powerfully with me, at this time in my life, as I am being challenged to find strength and success in my life through this same solitude~in other words, to "be a better friend to & for myself". It was a gift today to find your words today, through Khachaturian's music. Thank you so much & BEST to you!
My parents were already fighting like cats and dogs when I was 8 and they sent me off to see 2001 at the movies in 1968. The D word had been thrown around already in one horrific, childhood ending evening in one memorable contention. It's never good to be eight and first learn what it is to truly be alone, isolated, on your own adrift in incomprehensible sorrow and terror. The Gayane gave my pain a voice and helped me survive.
My Dad took me to see this on the second run, after he'd left my Mom, me and my sister. When the movie came to this scene and this music, I cried in the dark.
I feel for you man, I can relate. The big "D" is a heavy one. Went though the same stuff pretty close to the time you went through it. I was only 4 and my mom was letting my Dad have it, almost every day, soon as he got home from work. Pretty sure she had borderline personality disorder. One day Mom and I moved out of our apartment, along with the dog and cat. It was May of 1968. Even at 4 I had a sense everything was falling apart that terrible Spring. I didn't feel the full impact of it until my dad's first visitation. Maybe three weeks after the separation, me and Dad had a wonderful reunion for the weekend, but then it came time for him to drop me back off at my mothers on Sunday afternoon. I never got over it, now I had to be the one that "got it" from my mom. It was the worse thing I ever went through. My life was never the same. Later that fall, after I turned 5, during another glorious weekend with my Dad, he took me and my old best friend to see 2001 at the 86th St Lowes in New York City. It was fall of 1968. Dad probably thought, being a space movie, it was for kids, like Buck Rogers. I was dazzled but clueless. God bless Dad but that was no movie to take a 5 year old to. I think I'd fallen asleep by the time they were on the Discovery hurtling into space. Pretty sure we left early, cause that crazy stuff at the end would a scarred me worse than the divorce.
Kubrick really knew how to pick his music for the object of his films. For me, this conveys a kind of spine-tingling sense of extreme isolation, separation, loneliness. This music alone conveys an uneasy feeling of how far the spaceship Discovery and crew are from home.
@@jimmypage2138 that's a great question. New York has a history of great music but then again, so does Liverpool, London, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield... But the great masters of film soundtrack music seem to come from NYC. Where did Bernard Herrmann come from. Or Tarantino, another one with a great ear for a soundtrack tune?
In 1968 (I was seven, then) our mother took my brother and I to see the premier of a newly released "2001 A Space Odyssey". This, in itself, was a memorable occasion. The movie, of course, was way over my head but I'll never forget the feelings I experienced watching the scene of the spaceship Discovery moving through space. The expression of loneliness and solitude conveyed by this part of the story have always stayed with me.
Same here. My mother took my brother and I in 1968 to see this. Overture the whole thing. There isn't a day that goes when I don't think about that March afternoon.
Great age to see it (I was 8). Wasn't bothered by the lack of dialogue, minimal characterisation or baffling ending (unlike the audience at the premiere, the MGM execs or the critics). I just sat back, immersed in the spectacle and had the audiovisual experience of a lifetime.
This has long been my favorite track on this album. Rather than sadness or perceptions of loneliness, for me, this piece of music has always inspired a deep, contemplative and spiritual mood - followed by gratitude for its existence. I have long viewed "2001: A Space Odyssey" as a mysterious symbolic spiritual journey, which is why it's been one of my all-time favorite films.
Aram Chachaturian, genious, immortal ! His work resonates in so many people's hearts. Everyone feels his music through their own experiences. That's when an Armenian composer becomes every human's beloved, transcending time and nationality...He lives in each of us.
Armenian people are so sweet people. I married one and she brings insider herself all the pain and all of the sweet melancholy that are part of her roots. I love Armenia.
I was never the same after hearing Khachaturian's 'Adagio from Spartacus' featured in the movie, 'Caligula'. I found it so emotionally moving, I cried. Even though he was incesting his sister, twisted as that is, their love seemed genuine, and her death scene, where Caligula freaked out and tried to prop her body upright, in a pitiful attempt to bring her back to life? OMG, I lost it! I was practically crying like a baby. To this day, I can't hear that piece of music without having to fight back tears.
I thought I was the only one who is deeply affected by this piece. I have been watching 2001 for many years, and just a few years ago, this particular piece began to soothe me and make me feel better. I don't know why it affects me this way, but it just does, and at one point, I was listening to it everyday. I think I will have to begin listening to it again.
Yes, isn't it perfect for the scene? That air of contemplative fatalism, as we first see the spacecraft Discovery on its lonely voyage to Jupiter. I have been seeing 2001 ever since about 1968, btw. Time flies.
@@julianbassett5172 Indeed. I first saw 2001 at age 15 in the late 80s; though I couldn't completely understand the depth of what was happening, I knew from that moment on, I would forever be captivated and fascinated by this film.
I saw this film in 1968 at the old Warner theatre in Pittsburgh, Pa. It was shown in Cinerama, which was an early version of the "surround sight and sound" theatre that immersed one into the movie... It was a great way to watch it !
Me in a suburb of Chicago just by luck, I was visiting on a weekend from my college in central IL and spent a weekend in Chicago where I saw film this and heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time while surrounded by students who studied with members of the Orchestra!!!!
Dale, I saw it at the Warner as well, both when it came out and the "71 re-release. That was a wonderful theater for movies like that and Close Encounters.
I saw this at the Warner Theater in Youngstown, Ohio in 1968. It was presented as a live show. Tickets were required in advance and retrieved at the call window. There were no introduction credits, they were on a playbill. The intro music began with the curtains closed and the house lights out. I've never had such a great movie experience since.
A very underrated composition. I first heard this in "2001: A Space Odyssey", and I thought it sounded really nice. Definitely one of my favourite pieces.
When I was a kid my grandfather died. It was the first death in my family of a close relative, and someone I loved. My parents had to go out of town for the funeral and did not take me along for economic and other reasons perhaps. While at home I played this over and over again from the 2001 Sound Track album I just bought. Now I play this whenever I think of those in my family who are no longer with me.
How old were you? What decade was this? I have the same sort of feeling for this piece of music. To me it expresses a kind of grim, depressing, routine. A forlorn, isolated feeling. Kubrick was a master at matching this music to the emotions one might feel while on a very long space voyage.
@@RaptorFromWeegee I was about 14 or 15 years old when 2001 came out in the theaters. I loved the music so much and wanted to take the memory of the film home with me. I was young enough not to have a record collection of my own. I was so enthused by the classical compositions on that record. I avoided listening to the Gayne Ballet Suite because it was too depressing. When my grandfather died I had no one at home who wanted to share my sadness and grief. That melody got into my heart and allowed me to grieve. To this day my music collection in virtually every format is my drug of choice. Some have liquer cabinets to get away from their emotions. I have my music.
@@garybernstein3539 I'm glad you were able to process your grief in a healthy way. Sounds like you were very close to your grandfather and that he played a formative role in your upbringing. The voices of our past will always echo and resonate down into the deepest parts of our psyche.
@@RaptorFromWeegee Thanks. As I recall it was my first close death in the family I experienced as a young kid. Roll models were not available to answer questions, so I just processed it as best I could. :)
Seeing this film at age 10 galvanized the rest of my life...in every aspect...music, science, my career... Incredible. Who I would have become without this film is beyond me.
It was Frank Poole, the Deputy Mission Commander, doing the jogging - not David Bowman. But you're right about the music. In fact I saw the film just last night at the Sydney Opera House, but with the entire music track performed live by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, with the choral parts of the Ligeti performed by a 70 voice choir. The Khachaturian was brilliant, as was the Strauss, both Richard and Johann. Ligeti too. Incredible way to see my all time favorite film!
When I first saw the movie as a kid, the scene in wich you see Dave running around the Discovery stucked in to my head and still gives me goospimples to this day. It's just one of the best shots in the movie, sometimes I wonder why it isn't as much reffered to then other scenes in the movie.
Vellocet easily one of the most memorable sequences in the history of cinema, not just this movie. The sense of isolation and loneliness is both suffocating and strangely comforting. Such a powerful moment.
Indeed, thanks to the genius of Stanley Kubrick. I recently saw the film, yet again, this time with music performed by San Francisco Orchestra and San Francisco Choir. Simply incredible.
Melding music to video was Kubrick's special genius. And in this case, one of the most beautiful of the modern orchestra's repetory. The conductor is Gennady Rozhdestvensky - who has also a special affinity for this music.
That's right - the interpretation of this piece was used by James Horner as a part of the Aliens (1986) soundtrack. And, as for me - it was magnificent!
I just watched Aliens for the first time in about 30 years, and the soundtrack was so reminiscent of this that I had to come here to listen. (I must admit that I had to search for "Khachaturian 2001" because I remembered the composer but not the composition.)
Bought the "2001: A Space Odyssey" soundtrack back in '99. STILL one of my all time faves. Now the Gayane Ballet Suite is a fave in my youtube channel. Haunting.
Pretty sure this is played, in its entirety, TWICE in 2001. A good film-maker would normally never repeat themselves in a film, but Kubrick was exceptional and could do whatever the hell he liked.
Gary Lockwood who plays Frank in the movie said that during the intermission people came out of the Theatre saying they had absolutely no idea what was happening. The Film had left them dumbfounded.
I first heard this when I was in high school in the 70s, and there was a re-release of the movie. I listen to it whenever I'm starting my work day or getting ready to start learning somethnig technical. It has a "clean" feel to it, cold, perfect for clearing out the mental cobwebs.
I find that this strain of music is far too wonderful to express. Khachaturian should be a household name; although I do like to cherish this music as something of my own.
I watched this film in complete and utter awe as a ten year old, mesmerised by the film in front of me and the music, especially the music. I was transported. It had a profound effect upon me. The world was a different place after that.
2001: A Space Odyssey has been my favorite movie since I went with a friend to see it in 1972, and this is my favorite piece in the soundtrack. It fits so well with the scene it accompanies in the move, peaceful and contemplative.
I`m 18 years old and just saw this film in the theater for the first time, i`ve already seen it 27 times, but i always wanted one thing in life, and that was to watch it on the big screen, and today i did it, it was just an unique experience.
For those that dont get all the Glenn references: Theres a mod for a strategy game called Hearts of Iron IV, where Germany won WW2. In the US, Glenn can be elected and he will send Neil Armstrong to Mars (Litler reached the Moon first) and a superevent with this music will play.
A favorite moment or two in the movie. The interview has just ended, conducted by the media reporter Martin Aimer, as he questions the astronauts Dave and Frank mid way into the mission, then he introduces the HAL9000 computer. The interviewer then returns to Dave and Frank for one last question, as to what it is like to spend the better part of a year in the confines of HAL, on the Discovery 1 spaceship. This Aram Khachaturian peace introduces the next scene with Dave sketching the other astronauts in hibernation, as HAL introduces the forensic conversation with Dave. I was only 14 years old when I went to the large Hollywood Theater here in Portland Oregon with a friend to watch this movie. When I heard this piece of music in this scene, I somehow identified with it as the most interesting composition of classical music that I had ever heard. I had just bought my first astronomy telescope months before seeing this movie. This Khachaturian composition reminded me of sitting in my parents large yard, observing and scanning the night sky through my telescope for hours.
Слушаю произведение композитора 1947 года,а в голове всплывают кадры фильма детства "Чужие 2"Джеймса Кэмерона.😥😓🥺Этот далёкий и таинственный космос,меня всегда тянуло и тянет к нему.
This wonderful piece of music can also be used to indicate a sense of loss , On June 8 2018 it was 50 years since they brought RFK's body by train from NYC to Washington and it fit the mood of the footage of the funeral train and the mourners with the 2 black GG1 electric locomotives pulling the train down the Northeast Corridor.
I don’t know that I hear loneliness as others have said… maybe it’s the experience of something unimaginably beautiful that you encounter one on one through the music. It’s just you and the divine. The rest of the universe falls away.
This is one of the most beautiful and profond peices of music that represent to me the vast lonyness of being in space for a long time.To be one with the universe with no one around to effect you but your own mind.
Discovery's crew were marking time, en route to Jupiter. They didn't know that the worst day of their lives was lurking in the near future. We've all had times like this.
Oh they had plenty stuff to do meanwhile.. in the book Bowman and Pole were running experiments and doing observations with the ship's telescopes all along the way.. as a discrepancy.. in the book the monolit (and so the Discovery destination) was Saturn... as Discovery flew by Jupiter they took the chance to do extra observations and launch a probe to try to get some data of the near fly.. and after his mate death and HAL deactivation Bowman had tons of stuff to do alone
Check out Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings that was written at virtually the same time in history. i find great similarities between the two pieces as both composers caught the same fundamental anguish in the human condition . . .
50 years later. Still for me connects with the time that this film came out and I heard this music for the first time. Seattle, the Cinerama Theater. This music both sanguine and melancholy, ... a masterpiece in its own right. So much happening then!
Thanks to Kubrick, this piece is one played often on those late nights/early mornings, in the field furthest from the house, with my Celestron telescope. I usually don't use the scope at all during this. Just lie back and gaze at the wonder that is our universe.
I heard other versions of this great piece but they were always at a faster tempo. Forget it! But this is perfect! Kubrick really knows how to pick 'em! You're right on about the feelings of loneliness in space but this also conveys deep meditativeness of the stark nakedness of life. All in all, this is a contemplative winner!
I saw 2001 in the summer of 1969 at the drive-in movie. It was the night that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. sitting in the drive in theater you could see the moon just to the right of the screen. Knowing that those two men were up there left An indelible impression on me.
Thanks for your comment. Now I see why this piece is so deeply heart moving. It makes me feel so sad, but, at the same time is so INCREDIBLY beautiful!!!
At first I thought it was James Horner, who penned it for Aliens (1986). Then I thought it was a composer who did Odyssey 2001. Only today I have discovered it was Aram Khachaturyan, the name of whom I heard a million times growing up as a kid in then Soviet Union. Wow. Life never seizes to amaze me!
This theme also grace the opening of Aliens (James Cameron) in which Ripley get's picked up after 57 years in hyper-sleep. Also very beautifully appropriate.
James Horner, admitted that James Cameron gave him so little time to write music for the film that he was forced to use some parts from his previous compositions, and also write his interpretation of "Gayane Ballet Suite" for the initial and final credits.
@pilottheshaker I bought the album on vinyl (we called it a "record" then) in 1968 when it first came out. I haven't been able to listen to it for a long time so it's great to have it here. Thanks vidAcc for posting.
I would guess that outside of the (then) USSR, this piece was mostly unknown to Western listeners. Along comes this masterpiece of cinema magic and its amazing musical score. This remains one of my favorite short pieces. Haunting is a good word to describe.
This is not really relevant, but in case any of you are interested. The painting in this video does not match the movie in two ways. 1. At no time do you see any "exhaust" plume from the engine(s) of the Orion spacecraft. 2. The moon is at Full when the earth-moon journey happens; and according to the book the journey takes "a little more than a day", so the phase wont change that much during that time.
It was the year 2000, December 31. 23:59 hours. My older brother was listening to Tekno music in the living room. When suddenly I asked him to let me listen to Gayane Adagio. At first he didn't want to but I insisted and he lent me the radio. I quickly put on the CD of 2001: a space odyssey. While I was listening to Gayane Adagio I was looking at the sky from my window. I wondered if anyone else in the universe was doing what I was doing. When the music ended my brother continued listening to Tekno music and I went to bed. That's all.
It was 1970. I was a freshman at U of I in Champaign/Urbana, My parents were mad at me because they thought I was the long haired kid pictured on the front page of the Daily Illini protesting the Vietnam war. So they said don't come to Chicago for Christmas. I was by myself during the Xmas break. While the snow drifted over the dorms, I listened to this and for the first time understood the glory of solitude.
fuck em!
I first read this comment 4 or 5 years ago.
Every now and then I come back to this video, to find some comfort in the melancholy that emanates from this tune.
And I always end up re-reading this comment.
If there was some kind of 'literature prize' for RUclips comments, I would recommend this one.
@@damiaorodrigues2680 SUCH a wonderful, powerful comment, Mr. Damiao!! Paul Miller 's reminiscence is so sad, yet precious & touching, at the same time. And yes, this is a SPLENDID piece of music!!!
Paul Miller KUDOS & much respect to you, Sir, for sharing precious and powerful recollections~a bit sad for sure, from a time in the past filled with corruption, injustice & oppression. I do sincerely HOPE you were eventually able to reconcile with, and forgive, your parents and that they ultimately came to honest terms with the clear truth of what was going on in our country, at that time. Your musical "discovery of solitude": resonates SO powerfully with me, at this time in my life, as I am being challenged to find strength and success in my life through this same solitude~in other words, to "be a better friend to & for myself". It was a gift today to find your words today, through Khachaturian's music. Thank you so much & BEST to you!
HAL 9000 (of the movie 2001, in which this piece of music plays) was born at U of I in Champaign/Urbana
My parents were already fighting like cats and dogs when I was 8 and they sent me off to see 2001 at the movies in 1968. The D word had been thrown around already in one horrific, childhood ending evening in one memorable contention.
It's never good to be eight and first learn what it is to truly be alone, isolated, on your own adrift in incomprehensible sorrow and terror. The Gayane gave my pain a voice and helped me survive.
Nowadays 8 year olds can't go to the theater on there own anymore
Parents don't leave each other when they divorce; both of them leave the children, each parent in different ways.
Hoping you are a happy person now. 😧
My Dad took me to see this on the second run, after he'd left my Mom, me and my sister. When the movie came to this scene and this music, I cried in the dark.
I feel for you man, I can relate. The big "D" is a heavy one. Went though the same stuff pretty close to the time you went through it. I was only 4 and my mom was letting my Dad have it, almost every day, soon as he got home from work. Pretty sure she had borderline personality disorder.
One day Mom and I moved out of our apartment, along with the dog and cat. It was May of 1968. Even at 4 I had a sense everything was falling apart that terrible Spring. I didn't feel the full impact of it until my dad's first visitation.
Maybe three weeks after the separation, me and Dad had a wonderful reunion for the weekend, but then it came time for him to drop me back off at my mothers on Sunday afternoon.
I never got over it, now I had to be the one that "got it" from my mom. It was the worse thing I ever went through. My life was never the same.
Later that fall, after I turned 5, during another glorious weekend with my Dad, he took me and my old best friend to see 2001 at the 86th St Lowes in New York City. It was fall of 1968. Dad probably thought, being a space movie, it was for kids, like Buck Rogers.
I was dazzled but clueless. God bless Dad but that was no movie to take a 5 year old to. I think I'd fallen asleep by the time they were on the Discovery hurtling into space. Pretty sure we left early, cause that crazy stuff at the end would a scarred me worse than the divorce.
Kubrick really knew how to pick his music for the object of his films. For me, this conveys a kind of spine-tingling sense of extreme isolation, separation, loneliness. This music alone conveys an uneasy feeling of how far the spaceship Discovery and crew are from home.
Scorcese is very good at picking music as well, Coppola, too. What is it about New Yorkers?
@jimmy page Both Coppola’s! Francis and Sofia
@@jimmypage2138 that's a great question. New York has a history of great music but then again, so does Liverpool, London, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield...
But the great masters of film soundtrack music seem to come from NYC.
Where did Bernard Herrmann come from.
Or Tarantino, another one with a great ear for a soundtrack tune?
I don't know if there was any director who could better match already-composed music to film.
It's music that sounds like endless silence.
This is one of those pieces of music that grabs your soul and never lets go.
Great description! It really is one of the best pieces of music ever written.
It's haunted me ever since I saw the movie's premiere in the theater.
@Bob Martinfrom 2. 13 .That lift followed by the gradual fade as the notes fall. I can't put into words just how that bit gets to me.
Haunting and sepulchral, yet longing to be loved.
That and Georges Delarue's Concierto de Depart.
In 1968 (I was seven, then) our mother took my brother and I to see the premier of a newly released "2001 A Space Odyssey". This, in itself, was a memorable occasion. The movie, of course, was way over my head but I'll never forget the feelings I experienced watching the scene of the spaceship Discovery moving through space. The expression of loneliness and solitude conveyed by this part of the story have always stayed with me.
Same here. My mother took my brother and I in 1968 to see this. Overture the whole thing. There isn't a day that goes when I don't think about that March afternoon.
Great age to see it (I was 8). Wasn't bothered by the lack of dialogue, minimal characterisation or baffling ending (unlike the audience at the premiere, the MGM execs or the critics). I just sat back, immersed in the spectacle and had the audiovisual experience of a lifetime.
This has long been my favorite track on this album. Rather than sadness or perceptions of loneliness, for me, this piece of music has always inspired a deep, contemplative and spiritual mood - followed by gratitude for its existence. I have long viewed "2001: A Space Odyssey" as a mysterious symbolic spiritual journey, which is why it's been one of my all-time favorite films.
Aram Khachaturian is my new favorite composer. He puts the class in classic.
punkpoetry what the hell is your problem? let the dude enjoy his music
@@punkpoetry have some respect. That's Franz Listz you're talking to.
And the "sic".
Aram Chachaturian, genious, immortal ! His work resonates in so many people's hearts. Everyone feels his music through their own experiences. That's when an Armenian composer becomes every human's beloved, transcending time and nationality...He lives in each of us.
❤🇦🇲
Armenian people are so sweet people. I married one and she brings insider herself all the pain and all of the sweet melancholy that are part of her roots. I love Armenia.
I was never the same after hearing Khachaturian's 'Adagio from Spartacus' featured in the movie, 'Caligula'. I found it so emotionally moving, I cried.
Even though he was incesting his sister, twisted as that is, their love seemed genuine, and her death scene, where Caligula freaked out and tried to prop her body upright, in a pitiful attempt to bring her back to life?
OMG, I lost it! I was practically crying like a baby. To this day, I can't hear that piece of music without having to fight back tears.
one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. brings all emotions to the surface.
Yes, it’s got so much depth.
I thought I was the only one who is deeply affected by this piece. I have been watching 2001 for many years, and just a few years ago, this particular piece began to soothe me and make me feel better. I don't know why it affects me this way, but it just does, and at one point, I was listening to it everyday. I think I will have to begin listening to it again.
I think it's a celebration of solitude.
Yes, isn't it perfect for the scene? That air of contemplative fatalism, as we first see the spacecraft Discovery on its lonely voyage to Jupiter. I have been seeing 2001 ever since about 1968, btw. Time flies.
@@julianbassett5172 Indeed. I first saw 2001 at age 15 in the late 80s; though I couldn't completely understand the depth of what was happening, I knew from that moment on, I would forever be captivated and fascinated by this film.
This piece is the sister of the brother :adagetto by Mahler 5th symphony
It's hard to listen without thinking of the vastness of interplanetary travel.
I saw this film in 1968 at the old Warner theatre in Pittsburgh, Pa.
It was shown in Cinerama, which was an early version of the "surround sight and sound" theatre that immersed one into the movie... It was a great way to watch it !
That's how I saw it too, in Milwaukee … I agree completely.
Me - in Cinerama in Chicago - a very early mind-blower for a young guy from a small town
Me in a suburb of Chicago just by luck, I was visiting on a weekend from my college in central IL and spent a weekend in Chicago where I saw film this and heard the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time while surrounded by students who studied with members of the Orchestra!!!!
Dale, I saw it at the Warner as well, both when it came out and the "71 re-release. That was a wonderful theater for movies like that and Close Encounters.
I saw this at the Warner Theater in Youngstown, Ohio in 1968. It was presented as a live show. Tickets were required in advance and retrieved at the call window. There were no introduction credits, they were on a playbill. The intro music began with the curtains closed and the house lights out.
I've never had such a great movie experience since.
A very underrated composition. I first heard this in "2001: A Space Odyssey", and I thought it sounded really nice. Definitely one of my favourite pieces.
John Glenn you glorious madman.
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@@simons5793 The chad that would facilitate Musk's most wildest dreams
@latinforever it's based from a hoi4 mod
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When I was a kid my grandfather died. It was the first death in my family of a close relative, and someone I loved. My parents had to go out of town for the funeral and did not take me along for economic and other reasons perhaps. While at home I played this over and over again from the 2001 Sound Track album I just bought. Now I play this whenever I think of those in my family who are no longer with me.
How old were you? What decade was this? I have the same sort of feeling for this piece of music. To me it expresses a kind of grim, depressing, routine. A forlorn, isolated feeling. Kubrick was a master at matching this music to the emotions one might feel while on a very long space voyage.
@@RaptorFromWeegee I was about 14 or 15 years old when 2001 came out in the theaters. I loved the music so much and wanted to take the memory of the film home with me. I was young enough not to have a record collection of my own. I was so enthused by the classical compositions on that record. I avoided listening to the Gayne Ballet Suite because it was too depressing. When my grandfather died I had no one at home who wanted to share my sadness and grief. That melody got into my heart and allowed me to grieve. To this day my music collection in virtually every format is my drug of choice. Some have liquer cabinets to get away from their emotions. I have my music.
@@garybernstein3539 I'm glad you were able to process your grief in a healthy way. Sounds like you were very close to your grandfather and that he played a formative role in your upbringing.
The voices of our past will always echo and resonate down into the deepest parts of our psyche.
@@RaptorFromWeegee Thanks. As I recall it was my first close death in the family I experienced as a young kid. Roll models were not available to answer questions, so I just processed it as best I could. :)
The thing's hollow.....
it goes on forever
and...
my god, it's full of stars
Don't you dare go hollow.
Seeing this film at age 10 galvanized the rest of my life...in every aspect...music, science, my career... Incredible. Who I would have become without this film is beyond me.
It was Frank Poole, the Deputy Mission Commander, doing the jogging - not David Bowman. But you're right about the music. In fact I saw the film just last night at the Sydney Opera House, but with the entire music track performed live by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, with the choral parts of the Ligeti performed by a 70 voice choir. The Khachaturian was brilliant, as was the Strauss, both Richard and Johann. Ligeti too. Incredible way to see my all time favorite film!
Wow! Amazing experience.😎👍🎼🎻
Hope they didn't monkey around with the basic premise of the flick.
One of the greatest films in all the world.
One of my favorite films ever.
One of the best scores ever performed!
Agreed!!!
One of the most beautiful pieces ever written and so well used by Kubrick in his glorious film.
And sampled well in Aliens, as well.
When I first saw the movie as a kid, the scene in wich you see Dave running around the Discovery stucked in to my head and still gives me goospimples to this day. It's just one of the best shots in the movie, sometimes I wonder why it isn't as much reffered to then other scenes in the movie.
Clearly it did not, since it was Dr Frank Poole who did, and not Dr David Bowman.
Vellocet easily one of the most memorable sequences in the history of cinema, not just this movie. The sense of isolation and loneliness is both suffocating and strangely comforting. Such a powerful moment.
Indeed, thanks to the genius of Stanley Kubrick. I recently saw the film, yet again, this time with music performed by San Francisco Orchestra and San Francisco Choir. Simply incredible.
I was there as well, at the SF symphony performance. Perhaps the best concert I ever attended. Choir singing Ligeti was wonderful. Simply brilliant!
@@hpage66 Lucky man you are…
It is truly the most beautiful piece I have ever heard
So beautiful and elegiac. I think this could be the soundtrack of our shared isolation during this tragic and maddening time.
Exactly this. And it goes on
Melding music to video was Kubrick's special genius. And in this case, one of the most beautiful of the modern orchestra's repetory. The conductor is Gennady Rozhdestvensky - who has also a special affinity for this music.
That's right - the interpretation of this piece was used by James Horner as a part of the Aliens (1986) soundtrack. And, as for me - it was magnificent!
Not just for Aliens but also Patriot Games and likely others too.
I just watched Aliens for the first time in about 30 years, and the soundtrack was so reminiscent of this that I had to come here to listen. (I must admit that I had to search for "Khachaturian 2001" because I remembered the composer but not the composition.)
I didn't know! I looked it up: ruclips.net/video/wG3k5qx0Zzw/видео.html
And here's Patriot Games: ruclips.net/video/DcwZ3XR6ZKw/видео.html
Clear and Present Danger too
Bought the "2001: A Space Odyssey" soundtrack back in '99. STILL one of my all time faves. Now the Gayane Ballet Suite is a fave in my youtube channel. Haunting.
Pretty sure this is played, in its entirety, TWICE in 2001. A good film-maker would normally never repeat themselves in a film, but Kubrick was exceptional and could do whatever the hell he liked.
Gary Lockwood who plays Frank in the movie said that during the intermission people came out of the Theatre saying they had absolutely no idea what was happening. The Film had left them dumbfounded.
Please listen to the entire ballet. Hearing this piece in context gives it a whole new meaning.
@@crazykellywfo4240 Me three but whatever happened, it was cool.
This music is one of those which make you understand the greatness of loneliness.
Or better yet, of being alone. They are not the same you know....
I first heard this when I was in high school in the 70s, and there was a re-release of the movie. I listen to it whenever I'm starting my work day or getting ready to start learning somethnig technical. It has a "clean" feel to it, cold, perfect for clearing out the mental cobwebs.
I find that this strain of music is far too wonderful to express. Khachaturian should be a household name; although I do like to cherish this music as something of my own.
I watched this film in complete and utter awe as a ten year old, mesmerised by the film in front of me and the music, especially the music. I was transported. It had a profound effect upon me. The world was a different place after that.
Indeed, same here.
The lonely astronaut's theme. This is why, by the 22nd century, astronauts will bring cats along into space with them. Cats named Jones.
Ah Jonesie. Lucky Jonesie.
And you, you little shithead, you're staying here!
brilliant
Or Frankenstein.
Or more appropriately The lonely cosmonaut's theme seeing how it was an USSR composer.
3:33 president John Glenn: ha take that Germany I went to mars
Open the pod bay doors H.A.L.
3:30 is so amazing, it’s tossing the melody between two different strings so beautifully
The sound of loneliness
bittersweet
bittersweet
Epistaxis no music I guess could express loneliness better
Good description Epistaxis
You nailed it... yes loneliness and alienation and mystery...
2001: A Space Odyssey has been my favorite movie since I went with a friend to see it in 1972, and this is my favorite piece in the soundtrack. It fits so well with the scene it accompanies in the move, peaceful and contemplative.
3:33
and so after 8 years of hard work, president glenn managed to put a a man where no man has ever been
And with that...... the journey begins
"finaly, a place without any fucking nazis"
First famous words of a martian astronaut
Kubrick's choice of music and the depiction of the loneliness of space is just unsurpassable. 2001: It's still a Masterpiece and always will be.
A hauntingly beautiful piece of music played to perfection and wonderfully adapted to the 2001 film, thank you for posting
3:30 GLENN!
In case any of you are wondering Gayane is an Armenian name and is pronounced as so: Guy (as in "He's a cool guy") on-ey.
I`m 18 years old and just saw this film in the theater for the first time, i`ve already seen it 27 times, but i always wanted one thing in life, and that was to watch it on the big screen, and today i did it, it was just an unique experience.
For those that dont get all the Glenn references:
Theres a mod for a strategy game called Hearts of Iron IV, where Germany won WW2.
In the US, Glenn can be elected and he will send Neil Armstrong to Mars (Litler reached the Moon first) and a superevent with this music will play.
I love the pensive melancholy of this piece of music.
.....An timeless masterpiece of art.
A favorite moment or two in the movie. The interview has just ended, conducted by the media reporter Martin Aimer, as he questions the astronauts Dave and Frank mid way into the mission, then he introduces the HAL9000 computer. The interviewer then returns to Dave and Frank for one last question, as to what it is like to spend the better part of a year in the confines of HAL, on the Discovery 1 spaceship. This Aram Khachaturian peace introduces the next scene with Dave sketching the other astronauts in hibernation, as HAL introduces the forensic conversation with Dave.
I was only 14 years old when I went to the large Hollywood Theater here in Portland Oregon with a friend to watch this movie. When I heard this piece of music in this scene, I somehow identified with it as the most interesting composition of classical music that I had ever heard. I had just bought my first astronomy telescope months before seeing this movie. This Khachaturian composition reminded me of sitting in my parents large yard, observing and scanning the night sky through my telescope for hours.
Слушаю произведение композитора 1947 года,а в голове всплывают кадры фильма детства "Чужие 2"Джеймса Кэмерона.😥😓🥺Этот далёкий и таинственный космос,меня всегда тянуло и тянет к нему.
I love the end, pizz cellos and basses. One note. It completely ends the work.
Simply wonderful. This piece of music is simply wonderful. ❤
We had so much hope for 2001. Now, that hope is so far away. I am stricken with sadness and foreboding.
Now you know the meaning of this music.
This wonderful piece of music can also be used to indicate a sense of loss , On June 8 2018 it was 50 years since they brought RFK's body by train from NYC to Washington and it fit the mood of the footage of the funeral train and the mourners with the 2 black GG1 electric locomotives pulling the train down the Northeast Corridor.
Ayyy Glenn Gang made it to Mars
The vastness of space and how small is man. Ego and vanity are put aside.
So much Goosebumps, and Tears, and so much immersive feelings, can't count them. Thank you Aram Khachaturian, and thanks for Posting this!
Absolutely magnificent! Transcendent.
I don’t know that I hear loneliness as others have said… maybe it’s the experience of something unimaginably beautiful that you encounter one on one through the music. It’s just you and the divine. The rest of the universe falls away.
This is one of the most beautiful and profond peices of music that represent to me the vast lonyness of being in space for a long time.To be one with the universe with no one around to effect you but your own mind.
2001 and its music changed my life as a young teen. I went from meaningless wandering to engineering in a flash. Also changed my philosophy of life.
Discovery's crew were marking time, en route to Jupiter. They didn't know that the worst day of their lives was lurking in the near future. We've all had times like this.
Oh they had plenty stuff to do meanwhile.. in the book Bowman and Pole were running experiments and doing observations with the ship's telescopes all along the way.. as a discrepancy.. in the book the monolit (and so the Discovery destination) was Saturn... as Discovery flew by Jupiter they took the chance to do extra observations and launch a probe to try to get some data of the near fly.. and after his mate death and HAL deactivation Bowman had tons of stuff to do alone
So many people before 2020 didn't know about bad days ahead...yep, we've all definitely had times like that. That's life.
Good god, what haunting beauty. Wonderful.
Check out Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings that was written at virtually the same time in history. i find great similarities between the two pieces as both composers caught the same fundamental anguish in the human condition . . .
About a year ago I noticed the same similarity. So cool that you noticed as well. A fine performance is from the Akademia Filmu in Poland.
I am returned to heaven everytime I hear this piece.
I listen to this while building glorious structures in Minecraft which nobody else will ever see or care about.
50 years later. Still for me connects with the time that this film came out and I heard this music for the first time. Seattle, the Cinerama Theater. This music both sanguine and melancholy, ... a masterpiece in its own right. So much happening then!
I listen to metal primarily, but I find this piece beautiful to listen to.
Glenn!
... I feel young again when I listen to this music ...
Every time I see the film, I can’t believe the anguish in this music.
This theme fits perfectly with covid 19 quarantine
Absolutely.
BRAVO GREAT ARMENIAN!
A beautiful piece and one of my all-time favorites.
One of the most foreboding and scary works of music ever. Something very dark about it.
This version (unlike many others) incorporates that devastating last note (5:12) from the cello and bass sections. [Chef's kiss]
this music moves me on thinking our future in the space will be immersed in a wonderful solitude
This is very beautiful music. I particularly like the contour of the melody.
Thanks to Kubrick, this piece is one played often on those late nights/early mornings, in the field furthest from the house, with my Celestron telescope. I usually don't use the scope at all during this. Just lie back and gaze at the wonder that is our universe.
I understand you, my friend!
I heard other versions of this great piece but they were always at a faster tempo. Forget it! But this is perfect! Kubrick really knows how to pick 'em! You're right on about the feelings of loneliness in space but this also conveys deep meditativeness of the stark nakedness of life. All in all, this is a contemplative winner!
One of the greatest and spellbinding movie score of all time!!!
I saw 2001 in the summer of 1969 at the drive-in movie. It was the night that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. sitting in the drive in theater you could see the moon just to the right of the screen. Knowing that those two men were up there left An indelible impression on me.
Beautiful melodies. Picked up album after seeing movie, 2001.
This masterfully expresses my emptiness.
Agreed, sunshine!
Thanks for your comment. Now I see why this piece is so deeply heart moving. It makes me feel so sad, but, at the same time is so INCREDIBLY beautiful!!!
Good Afternoon Dave! Everything is running smoothly, and you?
My favorite piece from the film's score. Marking time music.
un musicien médiocre et surfait touché par la grâce... ce morceau est une pure merveille...
At first I thought it was James Horner, who penned it for Aliens (1986).
Then I thought it was a composer who did Odyssey 2001.
Only today I have discovered it was Aram Khachaturyan, the name of whom I heard a million times growing up as a kid in then Soviet Union.
Wow. Life never seizes to amaze me!
This music brings tears to my eyes... such lonely music.
4:35 - the decreshendo from here to the end "plunk!" always jerks a tear from my eye. SOOOO SAD! SOOOO HAUNTING! SOOOO BEAUTIFUL! ;(
This theme also grace the opening of Aliens (James Cameron) in which Ripley get's picked up after 57 years in hyper-sleep. Also very beautifully appropriate.
Exacto!!! muy buena apreciación...James Horner la incorpora en el sonido de Aliens :)
This piece is not used directly, but Horner clearly uses it as a template/inspiration.
James Horner, admitted that James Cameron gave him so little time to write music for the film that he was forced to use some parts from his previous compositions, and also write his interpretation of "Gayane Ballet Suite" for the initial and final credits.
J'aurais pas dit mieux
@pilottheshaker I bought the album on vinyl (we called it a "record" then) in 1968 when it first came out. I haven't been able to listen to it for a long time so it's great to have it here. Thanks vidAcc for posting.
The Cure's frontman Robert Smith says this piece influenced his sound heavily... who knew?!
Hell yeah man, I just read that too, that's why I came here
Makes perfect sense: loneliness.
宇宙空間の虚無感を表現する優れた選曲。キューベリックはやはり天才。
I feel at this soundtrack sadness,lonelyness,and also a bit of hope
This piece of music by Khachaturian is from the same 4-act ballet as the famed 'Sabre Dance'
I would guess that outside of the (then) USSR, this piece was mostly unknown to Western listeners. Along comes this masterpiece of cinema magic and its amazing musical score. This remains one of my favorite short pieces. Haunting is a good word to describe.
3:30 - 3:48 must have been an inspiration for the hyperspace music in Aliens
c140075 You're right. James Horner admitted that he borrowed this music because of the lack of time when composing the soundtrack to Aliens.
C'est très magnifique, superb. C'est l'eau de la cœur!
Nice tune. Helps me concentrate and write papers.
Spine tingling stuff. Adore this ❣️💖
Perhaps because this track is associated with Discovery's initial sequence, it makes me feel a deep sense of sadness and solitude.
This is not really relevant, but in case any of you are interested. The painting in this video does not match the movie in two ways.
1. At no time do you see any "exhaust" plume from the engine(s) of the Orion spacecraft.
2. The moon is at Full when the earth-moon journey happens; and according to the book the journey takes "a little more than a day", so the phase wont change that much during that time.
It was the year 2000, December 31. 23:59 hours. My older brother was listening to Tekno music in the living room. When suddenly I asked him to let me listen to Gayane Adagio. At first he didn't want to but I insisted and he lent me the radio. I quickly put on the CD of 2001: a space odyssey. While I was listening to Gayane Adagio I was looking at the sky from my window. I wondered if anyone else in the universe was doing what I was doing. When the music ended my brother continued listening to Tekno music and I went to bed. That's all.