The PostClassical Ensemble is making you an offer you can’t refuse. Next week, the group will perform a pair of concerts in Washington, D.C, and Baltimore featuring the orchestral works of the most ...

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" ...

Well-meaning critics sometimes like to point out that Nino Rota was not “only” a film composer. Classically trained and serious of disposition, Rota (1911-1979) wrote a significant body of concert ...

A just-reissued album, from 1981, features diverse musicians playing songs that Nino Rota composed for Federico Fellini movies. Critic Kevin Whitehead calls it a charming album that's long overdue.

Italian composer Nino Rota is best known for his film scores for The Godfather and Romeo and Juliet. With over 150 scores to his name, there's plenty of incredible music to explore. Join us for a deep ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Much film music is distinctly bloodless and rightly so: the blood and soul should be flooding the images and dialogue. The score is ...

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 ...

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 ...