If you know anything about me at all, you’d know that I have an uncommon attachment to music. My taste in music ranges all across the spectrum: from classical to pop, Western and Indian, vocal, instrumental, trance, electronic, world music, and everything in between.
I have a good ear for music, and I like to think that my musical taste is sophisticated. I can reliably tell if a note is wrong, but I cannot for the life of me produce any music. I am glad that I’m alive at a time when an infinite quantity and variety of great music is available whenever and whenever I want.
We all are amazingly lucky.
One of my favorite composers is the late Ennio Morricone (1928–2020). He was one of the most versatile, prolific, and influential composers in cinema history. In a career spanning more than six decades, he composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, and more than 100 classical works. (See note [1].)
I first encountered Morricone’s music thanks to the spaghetti Westerns that showed up in Indian movie theaters when I was growing up. Those Westerns were directed by another Italian, Sergio Leone. As it happens, Sergio and Ennio grew up in Rome, and were classmates in elementary school in the 1930s. How great is it that one gets to professionally collaborate with a childhood friend! Continue reading “Nella Fantasia”
