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Maestro Ennio Morricone

In Memoriam: Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)

Maestro Morricone—who passed on July 6 in Rome, the city of which he was a lifelong resident—was one of the most unique and prolific of film score composers. Having written music for some 500 films, and having worked with an extraordinary array of talented directors, his music could range from lush, symphonic tracks, to minimalist, throbbing electronic pieces, and also to the very quirkily orchestrated, offbeat, but highly memorable, works that became a bit of a signature for him—particularly for the Italian made Westerns such as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. Morricone typically wrote scores simply by reading […]

Church of Satan Sigil of Baphomet

Philip Glass: Symphony No. 11 — Premiere Impressions After the completion of his ninth symphony in 2011, Philip Glass felt that he needed to complete a tenth to avoid the “curse” of not getting past nine numbered and completed symphonies alleged to have dogged composers writing after Beethoven and his mighty nine. Of course that is simply a myth and many composers of symphonies move past nine without any problem. The idea may have been originally promulgated by Gustav Mahler. He resisted calling Das Lied von der Erde—a song-based symphony—his ninth, and then he died in the process of working […]