[Fmpro] (no subject) - the power of the score

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Kiki, my wife and I have been to Italy twice and for us it is the most 
wonderful place, the food, the art, the people, the landscapes, and most of 
all the sense of history. We drove through little mountain villages that 
seemed to have avoided all the ugliness of modern times - no combustion 
engines, no phones (no poles or wires), and, I swear to God, shepherd boys 
with staff and dog tending their flocks on verdant, flowered, sun-kissed 
hillsides (with a colorful chapel perched on the crest of the hill). In Rome 
we were wandering in the poor part of town, attractive Roman equivalent of a 
slum, and as it started to rain we darted into a dark little church (all 
churches are open all the time). This humble off-the-beaten path edifice was 
festooned with fine art! The walls were covered with paintings by old-world 
masters, and there was an actual Michelangelo sculpture standing next to the 
alter, and we were the only two people in the place! And the music - Mina, 
Milva, Ornella Vanoni, these women completely leave Streisand or Dion in the 
dust. We had cab drivers sing opera for us - and sing it well! / I envy you 
if you are, for the first time, going to experience Ennio Morricone's THE 
GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY. Please believe me that the greater portion of his 
genius was manifest well before THE MISSION (Morricone for tourists). Allow 
me to recommend other delights such as VERGOGNA SCHIFOSI, VERUSCHKA, 
SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI, METTI UNA SERA A CENA, MADDALENA, IL SORRISO DEL GRANDE 
TENTATORE (during the last days of vinyl this incredible score terrified my 
mother so seriously that I had to turn the record off - she was convinced it 
was the work of the devil), CITTA VIOLENTA, LA DONNA INVISIBILE, DA UOMO A 
UOMO, GIU LA TESTA, IL GRANDE SILENZIO, PER UN PUGNO DI DOLLARI, and superb 
collections of themes and cues such as the MONDO MORRICONE volumes on the 
German Colosseum label. If you are interested but have trouble finding any 
of the above titles please write me direct. I will be glad to help you. Then 
after Ennio you can discover Piero Piccioni, Stelvio Cipriani, Bruno Nicolai 
(Morricone's other half), Carlo Rustichelli, Francesco De Masi, Berto 
Pisano, Piero Umiliani, and more! My music library leaves me in a 
more-or-less constant state of musical ecstasy. - JohnB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sunblossom Records" <sunblossom at arvig.net>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] (no subject) - the power of the score


> John, what a powerful description ... I am going to rent the GB & U and
> listen closely to that cue. Sounds magnificent! My mother's side of the
> family is from the western coast of Italy, just a little south of where
> Ennio was born. I think Italian music is embedded in my DNA :) - kiki
>
>
>>>>Kiki, one of my all-time favorites is Morricone's Ecstasy of Gold cue
>>>>(THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY), heard as Tuco (Eli Wallach) runs,
>>>>full-out and completely overcome by avarice, through the immense Civil
>>>>War graveyard which contains buried sacks of gold. This magnificent
>>>>composition is almost an apotheosis of spiritual victory - a movement 
>>>>fit
>>>>for a symphonic Mass. The genius lies in the manner by which the music
>>>>transforms the moment. In the real world this would only be a greedy
>>>>bastard succumbing to his lusts, but Ennio forces us to comprehend that
>>>>these three men, Tuco, Blondie (Eastwood), and Snake Eyes (Van Cleef),
>>>>are paradigms, mythical constructs representing the most potent aspects
>>>>of the human condition. They are not a part of the dirt and death of the
>>>>real world but rather Gilgamesh-like beings, symbolic and transcendent,
>>>>moving through our smaller lives and acting out their mythical agendas.
>>>>None of this would be available if not for the power and magic of m!
> usic. - John Bender
>
>
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