Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer of the iconic music for Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns staring Clint Eastwood, has died at the age of 91.
Importantly, Morricone was never interested in working in Hollywood, preferring to remain independent in Europe.
The scoring of music for soundtracks in Hollywood — with a few notable exceptions like John Williams, Maurice Jarre, and John Carpenter — is unfortunately nepotistically dominated by a small fraternity of second rate Jewish “composers”, like the multi-Oscar winners Randy Newman, Jerry Goldsmith, and Danny Elfman.
Yet no Jewish composer ever created music more memorable, iconic and loved than Morricone.
The video homage below shows the Dutch National Symphony Orchestra recreating how Morricone made the music for ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”:
As an old musician, I find it absolutely awesome as to how that was all arranged and performed. Anyone know when that video was done?
Hey! There is a guy hanging from a NOOSE in that video! Call the FBI! Racism, Racism Racism!
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Another awful Jewish composer is James Horner. The f***er rehashed the same notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQd5ueBM5Yk
I wrote composer when I actually wanted to say “pseudocomposer”. My apoligies.
Saw “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” for the first time in a packed theater a few years ago. Thought it was a masterpiece.
Having said that, I recommend boycotting all movies, television and music, even the oldies and classics. All it does is continue to give credit to, add legitimacy to, and enrich the pockets of the scumbags running the entertainment industry.
Morricone’s score for the 1986 film “The Mission” was beautiful, especially the track “On Earth As It Is In Heaven,” which has similar voicings to those he used in the Sergio Leone films. Worth checking out if you’ve never heard it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQnKFfvHYgE&list=PL3ADED8E9B336B068
You forgot John Barry
Yeah, John Barry’s music for the early James Bond films was also completely original and unique. His other film scores didn’t stand out for me….
My fave score of all time is Barry’s “Robin and Marian.” Two main themes, and the one that comes in as dying Mother Superior Marian whispers she loves Robin more than God makes me lose it EVERY SINGLE TIME. And of course his score for “Born Free” probably gave Barry his biggest chart hit.
And I think you’re selling Horner short. His score for “Braveheart” is maybe my second favorite score, and “Titanic” gets short shrift because it’s been so ubiquitous for two decades.
It’s not really fair to say a composer self-plagiarizes because two different scores use a solo piano, say, or a similar two-bar riff. Every single in the ’50s was either 12-bar (“Johnny B. Goode”) or I – VIm – IV – V (e.g. C – Am – F – G, a la “Earth Angel”) but they had hundreds of different composers.
Lee Van Cleef, who played The Bad (Angel Eyes) is one of the greatest “bad” guys of all time. Great, under appreciated actor in movies. Hollywood didn’t know what to do with him. Johnny Carson did a good interview with him right before his death in 1989…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2_UZjiKq88
Yes, he was so good in that role! All of the faces he made were incredible, but also very convincingly real.
Actually of the three soundtracks for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western trilogy with Clint Eastwood, my favorite is “For A Few Dollars More” here:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=DT1NJwEi6nw