Ennio Morricone
Composer
Pope art...list in which Italians outnumber all the foreigners. Among them are sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro; the doyen of film score composers, Ennio Morricone; and opera star Andrea Bocelli. For the moment, the Vatican is being coy about revealing... In this article: Vatican, Gianfranco Ravasi, Pope, Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict, Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II, Italy, and Catholicism |
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The Stranger - Slog | 1 day ago
This Week in Music: Foscil
...of Miles Davis and Gil Evans's Sketches of Spain, Tortoise's more languorous post-rock reveries (marimba figures prominently), and Ennio Morricone's sorrowful yet dulcet spaghetti-western scores. Other diversions occur in "Latona," which...
In this article: Miles Davis, Trademark, Sketches of Spain, Gil Evans, Teo Macero, and Lee "Scratch" Perry
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PopMatters | 3 days ago
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
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Entertainment Weekly | 5 days ago
Movie music: Your faves?
...compelled to take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly in movie theme songs, including-cue coyote flute- soundtrack king Ennio Morricone's actual theme song for the 1966 Clint Eastwood spaghetti-western classic The Good, The Bad and the...
In this article: Avatar, Coyote, 9 To 5, Celluloid, Part of Your World, My Heart Will Go On, Lose Yourself, Twitter, and James Bond
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PopMatters | November 11, 2009
Nothing is Real: The Beatles 'Yellow Submarine' (Feature)
...album, is some of the most under-rated film music I can think of, easily on a par, for melody and evocation, with the work of Ennio Morricone. The movie is a brilliant aggregation and re-imagining of the Beatles music. The Disney classic...
In this article: Yellow Submarine, Beatles, The Beatles, Chief Blue Meanie, Brian Epstein, George Martin, Disney, and The Sound of Music
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thestar.com | November 11, 2009
A silent Crouching Tiger
...Boston trio deploys traditional Chinese instruments on compositions that combine the post-rock grandeur of Mogwai with the flair of Ennio Morricone's spaghetti-western soundtracks. There are plenty of thrills to be found elsewhere in Reel...
In this article: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Departed, San Francisco, Felix Chong, Alan Mak, China, and Infernal Affairs
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washingtonpost.com | November 09, 2009
Today in History - Nov. 10
...age 76 after performing at a concert in Castel Volturno, Italy. Today's Birthdays: Actor Russell Johnson is 85. Film composer Ennio Morricone is 81. Blues singer Bobby Rush is 75. Actor Albert Hall is 72. American Indian activist Russell...
In this article: White House, Rock, Yasser Arafat, George W. Bush, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, EgyptAir Flight 990, CBS Radio, USS Triton, Boeing 767, and National Educational Television
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South Bend Tribune | November 05, 2009
Film score composer Morricone still active
...creating unique gifts for everyone in the family. Read Film score composer Morricone still active The legendary Italian maestro Ennio Morricone is responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history, and - at 81 years old - he's...
In this article: Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, World War II, A Fistful of Dollars, and Mario Bava
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PopMatters | October 22, 2009
They're All My Children : An Interview with Ennio Morricone (Feature)
"They're All My Children": An Interview with Ennio Morricone (Feature) The legendary Italian maestro is responsible for some of the most iconic film scores in history, and at 81 years old is still going strong. It's unfortunate to be forced...
In this article: Oscar, Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Mario Bava, Clint Eastwood, Malena, Inglourious Basterds, and World War II
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Ennio Morricone, OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian Academy Award-winning composer. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone wrote the characteristic soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as well as The Great Silence (1968), and My Name Is Nobody (1973). His more recent compositions include the scores for The Thing (1982), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Lolita (1997),The Legend of 1900 (1998), Malèna (2000), Mission to Mars (2000) and Fateless (2005). Ennio Morricone has won five Anthony Asquith Awards for Film Music by BAFTA in 1979–1992. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score in 1979–2001, winning none of them. Morricone received the Honorary Academy Award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music". He was the second composer to receive this award after its introduction.
- Birth Date:
- November 10, 1928
- Birthplace:
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation:
- composer, arranger, conductor
- Website:
- http://www.enniomorricone.it
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