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From another YT Channel: Ennio Morricone, who died today in Rome, wrote his own obituary yesterday. Tomorrow it will be published in all main newspapers in Italy. "I, Ennio Morricone, have died. I’m announcing my death to all my friends that have always been close to me and to those who I haven’t seen for a while. I salute them with great affection. Impossible to name all of them. I do want to dedicate a special mention though, to Peppuccio and Roberta, brotherly friends, extremely present in these last days of our life. There is only one reason that pushes me to send my farewell to all of you in this way, and for which I’ve decided to have a private funeral: I do not want to disturb. I say goodbye with great affection to Ines, Laura, Sara, Enzo and Norbert, thanking them for having shared with my family and me a big part of my life. I want to remember with love, my sisters Adriana, Maria and Franca and their loved ones and let them know how much I’ve loved them. An intense, full and profound goodbye goes to my children Marco Alessandra, Andrea and Giovanni, my daughter in law Monica, my grandchildren Francesca, Valentina, Francesco and Luca. I hope they will understand how much I’ve loved them. Last, but not least, Maria to whom I renew the extraordinary love that has kept us together and that I really regret leaving. I send my most painful farewell to her."
I was first introduced to Morricone while watching, "The Mission," at a small theater on a U.S. military base in what was then, West Germany. I bought the Soundtrack the next day and was forever a fan. I'd even go to movies just because he did the score.
At first, I didn´t want to watch this one, since "Cinema Paradiso" left me in tears the first time I watched it back in 1995. The music was so profoundly touching that I couldn´t find any sleep after watching the film. In fact, it turned out that for that special reason I just couldn´t rewatch the film for several years after. So I knew it´d be hard to watch your take on Ennio. But there I was. And then I was glad I watched it, anyway: Listening to this particular piece of music made me cry again (allright), but also reminded me of (maybe better) times when people were able to tell humble but profound stories about friendship, love and that ole whole human condition.
@@lelandsklar6363 So it isn't just you, then? I must have a heart of stone for the number of films that can earn one of my tears I can count on my hands and this one tops the list. Make sure you watch the one with subtitles, not overdubs. The kid's voice is all wrong with the overdubs. I don't remember if I saw the longer cut.
Ennio Morricone -- I worked with him in the mid 80s when I recorded and mixed "The Untouchables" at Clinton Recording in NYC. We were both retired trumpet players and got along great! He had an intimate understanding of brass instruments and how to let them blossom. A real gentleman and a joy to work with. Lee, I think the first time you and I worked together was on "Conspiracy Theory" with Carter Burwell at Sony scoring. You are a real gentleman as well!
Va dritta al cuore e all' immaginazione !! Grazie Ennio. Ciao Amico
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What a beautiful tribute. I had the immense pleasure of meeting Mr. Morricone in 2013 when my wife and I visited Rome. We were introduced by a mutual acquaintance and had lunch together. Funnily enough, when I shared with him that I saw music in colors and images, he told me he did as well. Mr . Sklar, thank you for paying tribute to this titan. His genius will be missed.
Dear Leland, the world has lost a great musician but his works will remain immortal. And as an Italian I have to thank you for paying tribute to the great Ennio Morricone. Thanks Leland, you are a very good musician and above all a nice person!
Keep up the shout outs, My wife the nurse is getting tested today no symptoms but exposure level is off the charts. We have gone to social distancing at home. So the shout outs mean a lot to us!
God bless her and all of them out there. Thank you for sharing her. I'm still hiding in my bunker trying not to make things worse. I hope your wife gets a neg test right away and you two are back snuggling soon!
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone. The loss of this phenomenal composer fills me with a deep and profound sense of sadness. He was my favorite living composer. His music invoked powerful emotions and filled my life with such beauty that was wonderous, mystifying, inspiring, rousing, romantic, heartfelt and heartbreaking. While I am eternally grateful that his works are legendary and will ensure that his legacy will never be forgotten, the void left by his passing has left a yawning chasm in my heart and brings me to tears. May God and the angels receive his beautiful soul with great joy and comfort our bereft hearts and mournful spirits.
How can you not cry at the ending of Cinema Paradiso? Incredibly brilliant masterpiece that fits the ending scene. Pass the kleenex per favore. Bravissimo. Grazie molto Ennio. Thanks Lee for this tribute.
I LOVE CINEMA PARADISO. Morricone is a genius. My father, who passed in '92 and was 1st generation born in America of Italian immigrants, had the deepest affection for this film, its score, and composer. Its one of the soundtracks of my youth...not too many know of it. Brings me to tears with the opening notes. Much respect, Mr. Sklar.
Cinema Paradiso is a film *with heart*. It's also extremely funny. If anyone here or anyone you know has never seen a foreign film with English captions, this would be one of the very best places to start. BTW, I watched an Italian film called "Copperman" on the plane coming back from Florence last year, I laughed so hard and so often the guy in the seat behind me got mad because his movie screen, on the back of my seat, was shaking around and interfering with whatever he was watching !
Ennio Morricone was better known for the music he wrote for the Spaghetti Westerns (filmed in Spain w Italian actors and crew) but the music he wrote for this film is much more poignant NO CONTEST. Thanks for posting this, Maestro Sklar! Peace and Love.
If there were ever a piece to listen to moments before your last breathe, this is it. The music takes you to places throughout your life in a way that feels like an outer body experience. It's timeless and beautiful beyond belief.
I suggest to everyone, who doesn't know Ennio Morricone very well, to search up a list of all his work. So many both Italian and American movies with his music it's borderline ridiculous. So much to discover. Not just western themes.. Many different kinds. Just like this beautiful love theme! And I agree: If you never seen Cinema Paradiso. Do so.
I work in retail. We shut down for two and a half months but have been back for a month. There are protections but we are exposed by the knuckleheads who refuse to wear a mask and try to engage us in debate to justify their idiocy. Unfortunately work kept me from viewing most of the clubhouse tonight but was able to watch the final five minutes. I'm hoping thay my schedule allows me to watch the next one. I truly enjoyed the bit that I did see. Love all you do.
As a (normally) hard rock/heavy metal musician, it is hard for many of my band mates to understand my love for orchestral music, show tunes, and other "unacceptable" forms of music. I have, in fact, been fired from two separate bands for having songs like this playing in my car where and when they could hear it. This is music for . It is music for 80 year old grandmothers, not "rock stars" . Well, my last firing was 15 years ago, and I am still listening. Thank you for turning me on to this individual. I had not heard his music before; however, I promise this is not the last one I listen to. I can't wait to see what you bring us next.
@@1962RJP It's not so much forging my own path. My grandfather played with Lawrence Welk. When I was a child, my father listened to Dylan, Donovan, the Stones, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, etc. Mom listened to Ferante and Teicher, Mozart, Hayden, etc. My Dad would take me to the barracks when he had things to do (Dad was a Marine, and I was the platoon "mascot") and I would hear Motown, Blue Cheer, Ray Price, and every sort of music imaginable. In high school at a VERY small school (I graduated with 33 kids) the band instructor played with Woody Herman and Artie Shaw and turned us into a big band. My best friend's father turned me on to Maybard Furguson, Coltrain, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, etc. My friends and I listened to all of the usual rock suspects. My brother listened to early-mid 80's rap. I grew up with a love and respect for MUSIC, regardless of its form. Not everyone is as lucky. There are a HUGE percentage of metal musicians who view all others as sub-standard. I'm not one.
Let's face it. If what you wrote is true, you simply surrounded yourself with a bunch of morons. Good riddance.Most likely, one of the best things that happened to you both professionally and personally. If someone fires a member because this one listen to a kind of music they don't like, they have no clue what music is so... being out is a win. There's no need to say how closely related and how influential 'classical' music is for metal, and list all the examples, and all the collaborations of bands with orchestras. Ignoring this by your mates already shows their ignorance. As for orchestral music in general, film scores, etc. not being for 'rock stars' but for grannies. Well, they've clearly never met any REAL rock star and I bet their grandmothers wish they had better grandsons. Morricone was a bloody genius, of of many our country generated. You'll love his work (which is vast... so vast). Rock on!
What about Sergej Tankian playing with orchestra? What about Metallica playing with orchestra? And Yngwie Malmsteen, Scorpions, Aerosmith, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant? And Freddie Mercury snging with Montserrat Caballé? They should read those name and bury themselves for the shame. Rock stars... pfff, they have no clue. Be thankful.
As an "LSBE" (Leland Sklar Bass Extrodinaire) seasoned bassist, I learned after many years. As we progress in our musical endeavors, I am very humbled to know we are only as good as those who inspire us to become what we are and the music here today has me balling my eyes out of inspiration. If we need to be great then hang with the greater..
His score for "The Mission" is also absolutely amazing! Just thinking of "Gabriel's Oboe", I begin to choke up a bit and my eyes water. Truly otherworldly.
I've been crying every time I rewatch this movie and I hear this song, because it's like a intense breath that permeates me, I always prefer watch it alone, me and God
I visited Imperia, Italy in the early 90s. I saw the town that I believe inspired the movie. It brought me back. The music breaks your heart as does the loss of this very special man.
thank you Leland, I'm not a musician but music is my life, Morricone is passed r.i.p. his Music will remain forever and ever to enjoi our minds. stay safe and best wishes. Marco
All great performers and musicians never really pass.....we have their music forever. Btw as Oscar Wilde said "There is only one thing worse than being talked about....not being talked about". Enjoy the "busy" days.
Beautiful! And yes, the movie is lovely......I will miss you this afternoon.....appointment I can’t miss. Very disappointed. I will check and see if you are still live when I get home...NUTS.
Completely agree with you, listening to an orchestra live, when you love music, there's nothing as deeply emotional and powerful musicallly, even the best "modern music" gig can't compare and i've seen so many wonderful ones from Prince, Phil Collins, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel and so on...the loss of maestro Moriconne is terrible and now for me only one of the greatest film composer remains, John Williams. I'm a huge fan of his work along with Goldsmith, Moriconne, Barry and when he will pass away that will deeply afect me as his music is a big part of my musical life.
Well at least we hope not. All of the storage mediums we've been using have been degrading. It's important to keep working toward some more stable form/s but until then having lots of copies if only lower quality than the master is a good thing in my mind.
It's wonderful music and an inspiring movie. Thanks for this tribute Leland. It brings back all the emotions I felt as a small child when my mom took me to see my first movies and I had that fantastic experience of entering the cinema with all its promises of escapism and fantasy.
You know it has to happen it's all part of life but Lord it hurts even though you did not really know them personally. RIP the souls that graced our lives with such imagination and beauty. The music of Morricone is the paint in the picture and the heartbeat of a time. Celebrate the time he had on Earth, newer linger on the passing
Beautiful tribute! One of the best things about your videos is that you’re exposing people who might just like this kind or that kind that you don’t have to limit yourself like that. Thanks for doing your part in making the world a little brighter.
My eyes are in tears. I am here, alone at home with a cup of coffee, listen with you all this magnificent composer that just left us. But it will be for the years to come with his beautiful music. Gracias Leland por compartir las mejores composiciones del planeta. Saludos desde Costa Rica!
Thanks Leland for your videos. I certainly enjoy them. Maestro Morricone was a genius. We will unlikely see another like him. BTW, if you've watched television lately and heard the commercial for Model Beer, you've heard a portion of Morricone's Ecstasy of Gold. Cinema Paradiso is sublime.
Ennio Morricone also worked on 'It couldn't happen here' by Pet Shop Boys. A beautiful song about the AIDS crisis in the late 80s. You should listen to it sometime.
Richard......My theory is Mr. Sklar hears the music in “pieces” ( each instrument on it’s own, also their timing/ when they come in, tempo, etc); we ( I think) listen to it as a whole.....if that makes any sense?????
Wynn I completely agree, makes perfect sense, he also is able to here and recognize the fourth and fifth intervals of the chord and appreciate how the music dances around to get to I, IV and V and all that other Music theory stuff.
As a musician of many years, I do hear the workings of the things I listen to. Some of my most exciting listening experiences, however, I’ve been when I have absolutely no idea what’s going on… I get to recapture the wonder. Like the first time I heard Alan Holdsworth… Yeah. That’s a good one.
i won't go into details, but what happened to Salvatore in the movie really happened to me. so i can really relate to the movie, and it moves me to tears every time.
You got me again. I'm a retired projectionist and with out question this is my all time favorite movie. The music in the movie was the narrator. God bless you Lee.
Love this song. I like with jazz trumpeter Chris Botti has done with this song, too. Trumpet and violin combination. This version you're playing with Morricone and Chris Botti's versions are great! Thanks for sharing, Lee.
I so like this movie esp. the director's cut version by Tornatore. The film and the music are one of my all time favorites. Last week I watched it again for the 100th+ time and it still amazes and impresses me like the first time I saw it in the 90s. Also checkout the Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden version of this tune and the other movies by Tornatore like the ''Legend of the Ocean Pianist' or 'Malena', all with the great music of Ennio Morricone. For me it's one of the greatest movies of all times.
Leland, Music IS MUSIC! Whether it be classical, rock & roll, jazz, folk, country, or ANYTHING ELSE, it IS that something special that makes our lives just so much better and so full. A full rock road set up, a full orchestra, or a single pipe organ, the key is to let it into your heart and your life!!! As always, thank you for adding to our quality of life.
Thanks Leland for the nice tribute to Morricone. He was a genius and they made movies around his scores. Cinema Paradiso is such a moving and evocative film. The theme scorches the heart with all the pathos of that final scene. An epiphany for all to see. So relevant with all the uncertainties surrounding us. Thanks for your work on this channel.
The Maestro Ennio, my favourite composer, to me the one and only which could sit for a "virtual" dinner with giants like Beethoven and Mozart...thank you for this beautiful and touching tribute.He was (and always will be) our italian pride. In this sad moment I'm (despite everything) happy that his heritage, his immortal music, will last.And everyone, with a simple click, will be able to listen to it whenever they want. Stay safe, mister Leland.
