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03 July 2025 Zürich (Zurich) (Switzerland)
Tribute to Ennio Morricone
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich conducted by Frank Strobel - Grosse Tonhalle
Program Info: When you think about which film melodies are epic, Ennio Morricone's piercing harmonica motif from "Play me the song" immediately comes to mind. It started off very straightforward with this iconic melody: the film music composer and the director Sergio Leone were classmates as boys in Rome in the 1930s. This friendship resulted in six films together over the course of their major international careers, including classics such as “For a Fistful of Dollars”. Morricone's touching love theme from Giuseppe Tornatore's film homage to the cinema “Cinema Paradiso” is also unforgettable. Bernardo Bertolucci, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino – a small selection of directors whose films Morricone always composed from Rome. In 2007, he received an honorary Oscar for his life's work, which he accepted in broken English. Morricone saw himself - artistically influenced by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage - as a composer who created, among other things, piano concertos, choral works and chamber music. This large part of his work received little public attention. Lesser-known works from Ennio Morricone's personal archive in Rome were recently published. Under the direction of Frank Strobel, they will be performed exclusively and for the first time in Switzerland together with some of his unforgettable classics.
Program curated by the European Film Philharmonic in cooperation with Musica e Oltre – The Ennio Morricone Official Legacy Company and the Ennio Morricone Estate
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