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Ennio Morricone has died
- xabi 6y agoCi vediamo Ennio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEjaip1ePYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEjaip1ePYM
- HenryBemis 6y agoMetallica always called him Maestro: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hmtzRo-Qro8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hmtzRo-Qro8 Anyone who hasn't been in a Metallica concert, it is totally worth it, especially their (always the same) intro!
- dmos62 6y agoI couldn't help but smile when the vocals came in.
- abbadadda 6y agoI didn't realize he composed Ecstacy of Gold. Thanks for sharing: https://youtu.be/ZNGe7iK1O-4 https://youtu.be/ZNGe7iK1O-4
- joveian 6y agoI know Morricone's name due to the beginning of Metallica's S&M album with the San Francisco Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKypYslGEA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKypYslGEA8 Although it was enough to get me to pick up "Yo-yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone" that I also recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCGvfBc-oI&list=PL2D68C2EE484F4AE2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCGvfBc-oI&list=PL2D68C2EE4... Despite the huge list of movies he has composed for, the only one I might have seen is "Lorenzo's Oil", and I'm not sure if I actually saw it or just heard the name quite a bit due to living in Pittsburgh at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ennio_Morricone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ennio_...
- abbadadda 6y agoYup that's how I knew of Ecstacy of Gold originally. First album I ever had. Our walk out song in HS basketball was to the S&M version. I also went to the second showing of S&M^2 in SF.
- rad_gruchalski 6y agoI believe Hardwired Tour did not use this intro.
- markosaric 6y agothey did use it
- HenryBemis 6y agoFrom Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ecstasy_of_Gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ecstasy_of_Gold "American metal band Metallica has used "The Ecstasy of Gold" as the introductory music for its concerts since 1984."
- toyg 6y ago"Prolific" is a bit demeaning. He took soundtracks into mainstream consciousness in the '60s, and "The Good The Bad and The Ugly" is still an absolute masterpiece.
- QuesnayJr 6y ago"Prolific" doesn't sound demeaning to me. It just means his oeuvre is large.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoIn criticism the word prolific is often used in a demeaning manner to imply that the artist under question has not put as much thought and care into their pieces as they might or should have, but instead went for quantity over quality. I think though this usage has fallen out of favor and at any rate was probably more common among poor critics, I think nowadays it is understood that quantity of output might be necessary for some creators to achieve their best work (by producing some that is not as great as their best) on edit: so the word is sometimes sort of a snob-whistle, ooh prolific, well they're saying he's not that good then. But I doubt that is the way it is being used here.
- simonh 6y agoIt is also very often used of outstanding creators who are incredibly productive. I have seen it used that way many times. If anybody is using it pejoratively they need to stop. I think it would be a terrible shame if we had to tip-toe round our use of language because of misuse by others. I'm firmly against letting a small minority who are abusing language set the linguistic agenda in that way, although I have to say I don't remember seeing that usage myself.
- Anthony-G 6y agoI fully agree. As a lover of both music and cinema, I’ve (thankfully) never come across this linguistic abuse of “prolific”. If I did encounter it, the writer would immediately lose my respect and I’d probably stop reading.
- BLKNSLVR 6y agoI don't know most of his work, but I've had two channels into it in my life. 1. I have distinct childhood memories of the score from Once Upon a Time in the West from when my dad watched it (and then watching it myself). It still stirs something deep, that's not just nostalgia. 2. Following Mike Patton's musical journey and finding the haunting version The Ballad of Hank McCain in collaboration with John Zorn - from an album composed entirely of covers of Ennio Morricone tracks (The Big Gundown). I'll need to educate myself further.
- itchynosedev 6y agoI went to see his live performance in Amsterdam a few years back. The show had been postponed due to back injury but it ended up happening a year later, and it was mesmerizing.
- maaaaattttt 6y agoHe never had the public recognition he deserved unfortunately. I'm still surprised at how many people can whistle many of his pieces without knowing who he is.
- kleiba 6y agoAre you sure about that? At least in Europe, Morricone has long been recognized as one of the great.
- maaaaattttt 6y agoMy statement is biased by my own experiences I admit. Maybe the honorary Oscar he received in 2007 is somewhat a more objective illustration of what I meant.
- klackerz 6y agoHe did get an Oscar for The Hateful Eight in 2015, though.
- andi999 6y agoHe should have gotten one for 'the good, the bad, the ugly'. Didnt check though who else got it that year.
- kleiba 6y agoThis one did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free (original score by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer) ) Fun fact: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly did not receive an academy award nomination in any category.
- toyg 6y agoLeone’s movies were consistently discounted by US critics.
- charlysl 6y agoClaudia's theme from Once Upon A Time in The West is as good as it gets. https://youtu.be/AHe07HT5NQA https://youtu.be/AHe07HT5NQA Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone has to be one of the greatest partnerships in film history, so many unforgetable moments: https://youtu.be/qwb3P0fuM1c https://youtu.be/qwb3P0fuM1c Here is a very good old interview, with several references to their collaboration: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/12/11/morricone-interview-cinema-papers/ https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/12/11/morricone-interview... Their last film together: https://youtu.be/Jj5Xczethmw https://youtu.be/Jj5Xczethmw
- lukebennett 6y ago> Claudia's theme from Once Upon A Time in The West is as good as it gets. Hear hear, one of the most evocative pieces ever written, sends shivers down my spine every time. A real masterpiece.
- flaviocopes 6y ago7 years ago Bruce Springsteen in Milan used this song as the intro theme for his concert and it was the best thing ever. Still get shivers looking at the video https://youtu.be/Qm3lYTtJ8gs https://youtu.be/Qm3lYTtJ8gs
- frandroid 6y agoMorricone scored most of the films that Elio Petri and Gian Maria Volonté made together... that's another iconic film partnership that Morricone was part of, though less centrally in this case.
- x87678r 6y agohttps://youtu.be/qwb3P0fuM1c https://youtu.be/qwb3P0fuM1c That's awesome. So many crappy movies these days. 50+ years old, its amazing to me the quality is so high as well. I'm going to have to rent this.
- charlysl 6y agoYou should. The visuals are stunning, the score is highlights galore, and Henry Fonda is the ultimate villain.
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- bambax 6y agoA great interpretation of the main theme of For a Few Dollars More by an Italian street musician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1IeozjGrck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1IeozjGrck
- Thorentis 6y agoI loved the soundtrack of The Mission. Might watch it again this week. RIP.
- the-rc 6y agoHis themes were often iconic for their distinctive instrumentation and perhaps The Mission was the clearest example. It's a crime that he lost the Oscar to Herbie Hancock. Although the surf guitar sounds a bit cheesy or dated today, the main theme for The Sicilian Clan is another underappreciated and original creation of his: https://youtu.be/GwmdscZNTQU https://youtu.be/GwmdscZNTQU
- geerlingguy 6y agoEven smaller works like made-for-TV The Scarlet and the Black were iconic, IMO. One of the few composers who make it so you can recall a movie just by a few notes or one instrument in a song.
- aarroyoc 6y agoI'm a very big fan of him. It's so sad but we all knew he was in the late stages of his life. He was for me the biggest composer of the second half of 20th century, which just happened to do music for films (also for some Italian pop music, but it was less prolific there). Requiescat in Pace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SAOQfMA44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3SAOQfMA44
- rapht 6y ago> He was for me the biggest composer of the second half of 20th century, which just happened to do music for films (also for some Italian pop music, but it was less prolific there). My thought exactly. He actually made film music a genre by itself - even though I like to think of film music the other way round and tend to consider that it's actually the last refuge of well-written, and in that sense "classical", music. Come to think of it, it's actually film music that unifies the wildly different, highly creative, rich and thoughtful music from Glass to Legrand, from Vangelis to Morricone, from Sakamoto to Metheny.
- frandroid 6y agoHow about the first half? Shostakovich?
- 323454 6y agoRavel! https://youtu.be/bTYUyDjVCRU https://youtu.be/bTYUyDjVCRU
- flobosg 6y agoThe Mission soundtrack was one of my favorites as a kid. And I just learned that his work on The Thing was nominated to a Razzie Award!
- Erwin 6y agoHe toured with live performances very frequently, only retiring from live music last year, at age of 90. I saw him twice and both were filled with really serious fans of all ages. While he was prolific (350+ movie scores credits on imdb), I really feel as I am re-experiencing the movie while listening to Morricone's soundtracks, more than from any other composer, especially for "Cinema Paradiso", "Frantic" and, I think, the most meaningful Spaghetti Western, "Duck, You Sucker" (!).
- jyriand 6y agoAnother name for “Duck you sucker” is “Fistful of Dynamite”.
- sneak 6y agoI was lucky enough to see him at Radio City about a decade ago, with the entirety of the Roma Sinfonietta playing for him and for us. It was one of the most impressive and moving musical performances I have ever seen in my life. Seeing a coloratura soprano do The Ecstasy Of Gold right before me was mindblowing.
- derberg 6y agoChi Mai
- Jugurtha 6y agoHe scored "La Bataille d'Alger"[1] ("The Battle of Algiers"), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, which depicted events that took place in Algiers (specifically the Casbah), Algeria, during the war for independence. Algeria celebrated its independence day yesterday. So long. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-OBWU4qY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-OBWU4qY4
- christkv 6y agoI just rewatched The untouchables a week ago and remembered why I loved the music of that movie so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu2FekMaTQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu2FekMaTQc
- khazhoux 6y agoAl Capone's theme is so great.
- collyw 6y agoIs this really relevant on HN?
- spiritplumber 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo A fitting tribute, I think
- _pferreir_ 6y agoI had the privilege of seeing him live a few years ago. It strikes me how, despite his world-wide-acclaimed genius, he managed to remain so humble and reserved. It took decades for the world to finally recognize his greatness (he only got a honorary Oscar in 2007 and finally in 2016, at 87 years of age, the first Oscar for a soundtrack), but it did finally happen. If you have 2 minutes, look for the video of the acceptance speech. It's difficult to avoid crying.
- zabil 6y agoI am such a big fan. Ecstasy of gold in the final scene of the good bad and the ugly was so good.
- jacquesm 6y agoYou may like this then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajM4vYCZMZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajM4vYCZMZk
- nineteen999 6y agoSo many amazing moments in the Sergio Leone movies alone. One of my favourites is the pocket watch from "A Few Dollars More" which features on its own and also as part of the final duel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPnR7C8mZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JPnR7C8mZQ Such a haunting piece of music.
- orthoxerox 6y agoOur building superintendant had it as his ringtone and spoiled the song for me.
- nineteen999 6y agoThis is where I'm supposed to empty out my HN eggcup, wear it on my head like a hat, and tell you that you're wrong because it's not a song, because it doesn't have any singing , vocal signal or poetry in it. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/song?s=t https://www.dictionary.com/browse/song?s=t But in all seriousness, I'm sorry that happened to you, that's terrible.
- markosaric 6y agoThis has made me sad :( Metallica introduced me to his music and then I explored a lot. Had a privilege to witness his performance live once. Ennio Morricone is a legend! RIP Maestro!
- lukebennett 6y agoSo very sad :( One of my all time favourite composers. Such emotive music that bring back so many memories, not least my wife walking down the aisle to me to Gabriel's Oboe. RIP.
- jacquesm 6y agoThat piece gives me gooseflesh every time I hear it.
- sarthakjshetty 6y agoBobak Ferdowsi, an engineer who wrote a lot of the operating procedures for the Curiosity Rover was a huge fan as well, and paid tribute in a tweet that encapuslates Morricone's spirit [1]. [1] - https://twitter.com/tweetsoutloud/status/1280043423429345280 https://twitter.com/tweetsoutloud/status/1280043423429345280
- brushfoot 6y agoAnother of the great melody writers is gone. He will be missed. His Cinema Paradiso theme is one of my all-time favorites -- not the love theme that's most commonly associated with the film, but the main theme, which plays during the opening. It's so infinitely tender and nostalgic. https://youtu.be/BvD8EiibPVo https://youtu.be/BvD8EiibPVo
- bori5 6y agoHere’s the love theme performed by Pat and Charlie https://youtu.be/qEwXcgwzIYE https://youtu.be/qEwXcgwzIYE
- sepisoad 6y agoI was listening to his masterpieces just yesterday and thought how wonderful his compositions are. I will miss him definitely. RIP
- indogooner 6y agoOnce Upon A Time is the first Western I watched and became fan of Leone, Morricone and Bronson for life. I found it slow initially but the background score won't let me leave it. And from then on I binge watched as many Westerns as I could. Btw rendition by Danish Orchestra is also awesome https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA
- spacechild1 6y agoEnnio Morricone single-handedly "invented" the typical style of Italo Western film music. US-American Western film music used to be lush orchestral scores, instead Morricone used electric guitars, whistling, screaming, Mariachi trumpet playing, various percussion instruments, etc. The music for "A Fistful of Dollars" was something people have never heard before. However, I can see a similar approach in Masaru Satō's music for Kurosawa's Samurai movies with its sparse instrumentation and inclusion of jazz elements. The whole score is in stark contrast to the music of earlier Jidai-geki movies, which also favoured large sweeping orchestral music. Given the fact that "A Fistful of Dollars" was basically a remake of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo", I have been wondering if Morricone had been influenced by Satō in any way.
- toyg 6y agoMorricone and Leone were classmates, so it’s not impossible to think they might have watched Kurosawa’s work together. However, it’s more likely that Morricone’s influences were coming from a ‘60s Italy that was in a continuous state of near-revolt, where folk music was explicitly being rediscovered in opposition to the establishment (which, in Italian musical terms, meant opera and prewar songs). Using “the people’s” instruments was a statement as much as a stylistic choice.
- spacechild1 6y ago> Using “the people’s” instruments was a statement as much as a stylistic choice. That makes sense. Another thing I noticed is that the harmonic and melodic language Morricone's early Italo Western music has striking similarities to instrumental guitar tunes of the 60s by artists like The Shadows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgbcyfJgfQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgbcyfJgfQ) or Neil LeVang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir7fjfqzcOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir7fjfqzcOM). Anyway, like most great artists, Morricone borrowed from various sources to create his own unique style. Even Mozart, whose style many people would nowadays describe as very "pure", was accused by contemporary critics of being too eclectic.
- rbrtdrmpc- 6y agodon't remember exactly if it was a bio, and interview or something else, no ok wait now i remember, it was from the book "Superonda Storia segreta della musica italiana" by Valerio Mattioli (a recent book about the sperimental/pop music scene in Italy, tightly connected with the Darmstadt School and John Cage for the later, influecend by for the second), though in the book it is clear that Morricone and Leone never shared much during their childhood (they saw each other again after 25 years from those school days), and actually they came back together almost by chance also because Leone had different ideas about the music that Morricone provided for another movie, Gunfight at Red Sands/Gringo (Duello del Texas), music he utterly disliked, but probably neither Morricone cared much since he used a moniker.
- graeme 6y agoThis is a wonderful and hilarious short interview with Morricone in the 80s: http://sdarchive.com/premiere2.html http://sdarchive.com/premiere2.html I’ve listened to Morricone scores more often than I can count. This is very sad news. He was still working too.
- jawilson2 6y agoThis is great: Fagen: But isn't it true that the Leone films, with their elevation of mythic structures, their comic book visual style and extreme irony, are now perceived as signaling an aesthetic transmutation by a generation of artists and filmmakers? And isn't it also true that your music for those films reflected and abetted Leone's vision by drawing on the same eerie catalog of genres - Hollywood western, Japanese samurai, American pop, and Italian Opera? That your scores functioned both "inside" the film as a narrative voice and "outside" the film as the commentary of a winking jester? Put it all together and doesn't it spell "postmodern", in the sense that there has been a grotesque encroachment of the devices of art and, in fact, an establishment of a new narrative plane founded on the devices themselves? Isn't that what's attracting lower Manhattan? Morricone: [ shrugs ]
- tmamic 6y agoI regret missing his concert a few years ago. He is amazing!
- motohagiography 6y agoI have a spotify playlist with a bunch of Morricone's pieces on it, and oddly I discovered him as a teenager listening to a super weird goth band called Fields of the Nephilim, whose schtick was basically dressing up as vampire cowboys, and they sampled Morricone as a leitmotif throughout a whole bunch of their songs. Most familiar will be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcg-iCBivbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcg-iCBivbw It's easy to miss that there was a lot of truly great art wrapped up with what we were taught was kitsch, camp, and schmaltz.
- e40 6y agoCan you share the playlist?
- motohagiography 6y agoSure, there's a bunch of other stuff in it for classic guitar as well since I assembled it essentially as workout music for schooling horses in the summer with some guitar repetoire: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nFrK21I8wIZin0T7i71zH https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nFrK21I8wIZin0T7i71zH YMMV, but there is a Morricone highlight reel in there, along with some other epic stuff. If you are a Quentin Tarantino fan, you'll recognize things like L'Arena and others from Kill Bill, with a bunch of other homages.
- busyant 6y ago> It's easy to miss that there was a lot of truly great art wrapped up with what we were taught was kitsch, camp, and schmaltz. I had a similar revelation seeing Don Rickles perform about 12 years ago. I went to see Rickles with a friend, but my primary motivation was to feel superior by basking in the kitsch of a dinosaur comedian from my parents' generation. What I ended up seeing was a remarkably talented man who could sing, dance (in his 80s!), tell a joke, and hold the audience in the palm of his hand. * edit: I also love this song by Morricone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54OHh8lib0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54OHh8lib0
- aphrax 6y agoI remember Fields of Nephilim - listened to them again recently & they actually hold up pretty well. Psychonaut is a good one..
- vixen99 6y agoAnother Morricone score worth mentioning is that for a great film - Cinema Paradiso. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQh4PeB8PE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQh4PeB8PE
- Finnucane 6y agoA personal favorite album is John Zorn’s The Big Gundown, an album of arrangements of Morricone’s film music. Two great tastes that go great together, as they say.
- pachico 6y agoI didn't expect to read the name John Zorn here. This forum keeps surprising me.
- racl101 6y agoLegendary composer. Wish more young people knew his stuff, but kids really get bombarded with John Williams' stuff when they watch Star Wars. But yeah, Ennio Morricone is every bit as important and influential as John Williams.
- lou1306 6y agoOf course his soundtrack work is immortal. However, he also composed some iconic Italian pop songs! His most famous one is probably Mina's "Se Telefonando". [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fpSiE953w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fpSiE953w
- xwdv 6y agoDied from a broken femur, how is that something so simple can just kill a person?
- saiya-jin 6y agoWhen you are 93 years old? very, very easily from all kinds of complications
- linksnapzz 6y agoMorricone did the score for "Treasure of the Four Crowns"; the explicit silliness of a film never seemed to stop him from putting in 100% effort to produce great music for it.
- _sbrk 6y agoCoincidentally, I watched Inglorious Basterds last night and have always loved the end credit music, so I let it run to the end. R.I.P. Ennio
- woobar 6y agoInteresting that the article has attributed "Chi Mai" to a British TV series. But I always thought it was from the 1981 Belmondo movie (Le professionnel). In fact it was written in 1971 for another movie (Maddalena). Absolutely beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0
- efrafa 6y agoOnce upon a time in the West has probably the best soundtrack ever made. Great cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIipUjO2ckk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIipUjO2ckk
- tzs 6y agoA couple random things: 1. How did Adam and the Ants never get sued over "Jolly Roger"? [1] The melody and even the arrangement are pretty much a straight copy of Morricone's "The March of the MacGregors" [2] from the movie "7 Guns for the MacGregors". Morricone should have at least got songwriting credit on "Jolly Roger", but it is just credited to Marco Pirroni and Adam Ant. 2. There are some interesting covers of Morricone songs. The Ramones did "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" in some of their live shows. Their version was pretty straightforward...if you heard it in isolation you would not have thought "Ramones". Wall of Voodoo did "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly". Their version sounded like a Wall of Voodoo song. Great music stays great even if arranged for and played on instruments quite different from what it was written for. An example of that is the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's version of "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" [3]. 3. If all that comes to mind when you hear the name Ennio Morricone is a bunch of great spaghetti western music, it is worth getting a compilation or two of his work and listening to it. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4n-oo32Jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4n-oo32Jg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGmy_oRz38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGmy_oRz38 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s
- pmoriarty 6y agoOne of my favorite Morricone creations is main theme for one of the greatest horror films of all time, John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing.[1] I can't find it now, but in an interview Carpenter said something like that when he first worked with Morricone on this film, the latter came up with a very flowery, melodic theme, and Carpenter went to visit him but had trouble getting his ideas across to Morricone because of the language barrier, so he just said (through a translator): "Less notes"[2], and this is what Morricone came up with. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcc9U35hPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcc9U35hPY [2] - Which reminds me of the "too many notes" scene from Amadeus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_eqxh-Qok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_eqxh-Qok), but unlike Mozart, who took offense, Morricone seems to have taken the suggestion in stride and come up with a classic.
- rjohnk 6y agoThe Danish National Symphony Orchestra has a great rendition of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The guest conductor is Sarah Hicks, of the Minnesota Orchestra https://youtu.be/enuOArEfqGo https://youtu.be/enuOArEfqGo
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoI'm Italian, living in San Francisco, in my 40s. For essentially every Italian, in Italy or abroad, Morricone is one of these timeless figures. His work is considered by many so inspirational and innovative in its own way; and if you pick one of the many contributions he made to music or cinema, you will find layers and layers of details to unveil, often to reveal important aspects of Italy's culture of the second half of the 20th century. As an example: he composed "Se telefonando" [0], performed by Mina and written by Maurizio Costanzo. Mina is "the female voice" of Italy's economic boom (1950-1970). He was then ostracized by every media outlet (TV, newspapers, etc) because he had a son without being married, and the Church heavily condemned it. Maurizio Costanzo is one of the most important figures in Italian TV, and has had a show, the "Maurizio Costanzo show", for decades. Think of him as the Italian Oprah. You can do this hundreds of times with many pieces that Morricone composed or arranged. He kept performing at concerts until recently, despite his old age. In Italy people often remember his last appearance at La Scala (the most iconic theatre in Milan, considered to be THE place for Opera and high music, among other things), and concerts at Arena di Verona (a smaller Colosseum in Verona, hometown of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), the Colosseum in Rome, and the "Terme di Caracalla" also in Rome (ancient public bath houses, the second largest ever built). He will be truly missed. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se_Telefonando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se_Telefonando [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baths_of_Caracalla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baths_of_Caracalla
- fredsanford 6y agoRIP sir and thank you for the art. Once Upon a Time in America and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly have burned a huge amount of my entertainment time.
- jborak 6y agoA lot of people have seen the Clint Eastwood "Man with no name" westerns but if you haven't watched "Once Upon a Time in the West" I would definitely check it out. One of the best movies I've seen and if you're not fan of westerns (which I wasn't) you will appreciate the genre some more after seeing this movie.
- 7sigma 6y agoWhat also amazes me about his music is that how even some obscure movies he scored for had really great soundtracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqre0jAq724 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqre0jAq724
- Boxfreshpidge 6y agoAn amazing composer with a magic sound