Ennio Morricone: The Australian Concert
Drills. Coyotes. Belches. Typewriters. In a career spanning seven decades, Italian composer Ennio Morricone has never shied away from incorporating natural sound into his work, and has happily embraced the dissonance of musique concète in his concert pieces. However, he has never tried to interpolate dozens of screaming V8 engines into an arrangement of Deborah’s [...]
“A Fistful of Dynamite” : A Change in the Balance of Power
By 1970, Sergio Leone was tiring with the Western as a film genre. With the “Dollars” trilogy, and more significantly with “Once Upon a Time in the West” he felt he had said all he wanted to about the subject. He was eager to pursue his dream of moving on cinematically within the turbulent history [...]
