Nino Rota inhabits a shadowy cultural space - everyone knows his music but not many people would recognize his name. Rota was the Italian composer who wrote the scores for the first two "Godfather" ...

Many of these melodies will appear in the tribute concert to Rota being given tonight by the great Franco-Italian accordionist Richard Galliano, with a quintet that includes American trumpeter Dave ...

So sang Isidro Mangloña in 1987 in Rota, recorded by Juana Palma. It was a melody used most often for the popular music style, Kantan Chamorrita or simply Chamorrita. Mangloña varied the melody from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – among many other ...

An all-star recording or Rota’s chamber music is a revelation; cellist Maya Beiser gets to the heart of Glass; and a bold take on The Rite of Spring The composer, pianist and conductor Nino Rota (1911 ...

“There is only one real function of film music,” Igor Stravinsky wrote in 1946 in the Musical Digest, “namely to feed the composer.” That wasn’t very nice. But his sentiment remains as sticky as a ...

This monumental crime masterpiece needs a soundtrack to match, and Nino Rota's music certainly packs a punch. Rota's score for Francis Ford Coppolla's gangster epic was removed at the last minute from ...

Amarcord, Movements: Suite Riccardo Chailly, Conductor Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Nino Rota, Composer 8 1/2, 'Otto e Mezzo', Movements: Suite Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Nino Rota, ...

(15) Preludes, Movements: XIII. Andante cantabile Eric Le Sage, Piano (15) Preludes, Movements: II. Allegro, ma espressivo delicato Eric Le Sage, Piano In addition to his many film scores, Nino Rota ...

Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – among many other masterpiece movies – is set for “Nino” a high-profile documentary being ...