[Fmpro] - the power of the score

[Sunblossom Records]

... and your description of Italy is just lovely. The Roman church with the 
Michelangelo sounds delightful. Opera-singing cab drivers - who knew?

kiki


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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
>
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> 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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