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RIP. I haven't heard his music, but as a film music fan I'm of course familiar with the name.
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1st B: Re: RIP. I haven't heard his music, but as a film music fan I'm of course familiar with the name.
You've heard his music for eons and probably just didn't know who composed it. Go sample "Mondo Cane" or "More," the very popular song that was made from the principal theme from that movie and covered by about 3,000 singers and orchestras and soloists.
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1st B: Re: RIP. I haven't heard his music, but as a film music fan I'm of course familiar with the name.
You've heard his music for eons and probably just didn't know who composed it. Go sample "Mondo Cane" or "More," the very popular song that was made from the principal theme from that movie and covered by about 3,000 singers and orchestras and soloists.
This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBmt4csWIgY
No, haven't heard it. Not what I usually put on, to be honest. :-D
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double post
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First Breath: Re: 1st B: Re: RIP. I haven't heard his music, but as a film music fan I'm of course familiar with the name.
You've heard his music for eons and probably just didn't know who composed it. Go sample "Mondo Cane" or "More," the very popular song that was made from the principal theme from that movie and covered by about 3,000 singers and orchestras and soloists.
This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBmt4csWIgY
No, haven't heard it. Not what I usually put on, to be honest. :-D
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Well, that's not surprising. "Mondo Cane" was released in 1962 and you weren't born until December of 1974 -- I doubt that I would know much about the music from more than 12 years before I was born either. But, believe me, it was huge back then, and EVERYONE seemed to be playing and singing it. Years later there would be "Feelings," which had a similar omniscience with people making fun of how everyone seemed to be performing it. For us who were adults then (or a teen, as I was), you couldn't turn on the TV or the radio without hearing it. And then when we saw the movie (a quite remarkable piece that probably inspired "Koyaanisqatsi" years later) and saw how well Riz Ortalani and Nino Oliviero had integrated their music into some very potent images of a world seemingly gone mad, many of us just HAD to have it, and I bought the soundtrack first on reel-to-reel and later on CD and played the hell out of it, although I've not played it in years -- I just put it on from my iTunes and find that it can still move me, despite being a pretty rough recording.
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R.I.P. Maestro Ortolani
Some scores and themes I would like to mention as amongst my favourites, he wrote some great lush themes:
The very nice score on Digitmovies to the peplum URSUS NELLA VALLE DI LEONI, a gorgeous love theme.
The very catchy theme and vocal from MADRON.
His at times beautiful score to Zeffirelli's BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON.
His epic theme to A REASON TO LIVE A REASON TO DIE.
The superb score to Terence Young's WAR GODDESS still available on Quartet records. The theme 'Un Ragione per Amore' on this is wonderful, a soaring epic symphonic theme that sure should be more well known. It's up there with the CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST theme. How this score has not sold out if only 500 copies made is beyond me.
CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS, some great themes on this especially the one with solo female voice.
The great choral and symphonic score the LA PRIMAVERA DI MICHELANGELO. Just stunning.
Lastly the even less well known THE KNIGHTS OF THE QUEST (I Cavalieri Che Fecero L'Impresa) another delightful symhonic/choral score which I picked up recently without knowing anything about previously.
I look forward to discovering more of his music.
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RIP
We loose another great
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Well I'd not listened to the main theme from A REASON TO LIVE, A REASON TO DIE for a while, but on listening to it again I realised that the theme I mentioned earlier in this thread from WAR GODDESS is no other than the same theme. So Ortolani re used it for the WAR GODDESS (in a slightly different arrangement I believe) soundtrack album in 1974 (the author of the liner notes for the Quartet release mentions that this theme was not used in the film, but he did not mention it was the same as the main theme from A REASON TO LIVE...). Dave.
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The theme from valachi papers is one of the most gorgeous italian themes ever written by any of them.
Another wicked score which as yet sees no CD release.
Id love to find out who his trumpet player was on Anzio and day of anger - ortolani seemed to compose in a unique signature way for trumpet.
Sad another italian maestro has passed. So few left now.
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