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A new posthumous Ennio Morricone collection, Morricone Segreto, featuring seven previously unreleased tracks, will be released November 6th via CAM Sugar/Decca Records, Variety reports.
From nine simple notes, a welter of potent, bittersweet emotions. Bernstein also noted that Morricone “saw himself as a full partner in telling stories on-screen.” And that made him a rarity ...
The first posthumous Ennio Morricone album is ready for release. Four months after the Oscar-winning composer’s death in July, Morricone’s home label Decca Records and Italy’s CAM Sugar have ...
Ennio Morricone wasn’t just the most important film composer of the 20th century, he was also the busiest. Morricone, who died Monday in Rome at age 91, is best known for his early work with ...
His lawyer Giorgio Assumma handed reporters an obituary written by the composer himself outside the clinic where Morricone died, Reuters reports. It begins “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.” ...
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning composer of more than 500 film scores, has died at the age of 91. The Italian musician leaves behind an extraordinary body of work that includes collaborations ...
The harmonica melody in Once Upon a Time in the West. In his 70-year career, Ennio Morricone has composed the scores for over 500 movies, reinventing its role and defining the sound of the Italian ...
“At first, I thought making music for the cinema was humiliating,” the late film composer Ennio Morricone once said. “By writing, I got my revenge.” That comeuppance came in the form of an ...
The movie devotes itself to Morricone's music, from the pop songs to the spaghetti Westerns to "The Untouchables" and beyond. But it's also about his impishly self-serious personality. The ...
"Cinema Paradiso" director Giuseppe Tornatore pays tribute to his friend and collaborator with a star-studded and compelling look at his musical genius. I suppose there’s a more interesting film ...
Every morning at about 6 a.m., Ennio Morricone was out on the streets of Rome to get that day’s newspapers and to pray at the nearby Church of the Gesù. It was a routine that caught the eye of ...