The documentary was based on a long interview of Morricone, which lasted about 50 hours and formed the skeleton, while most of his collaborators talk about the maestro
“My father had a small notebook and a pen in every corner of the house, in the bathroom, on the bedside table, everywhere, because he might wake up at night and a piece of music would come to him that he had to write down, otherwise he would forget it.” , his son describes to APE-MPE Eno MorriconeMarco, emphasizing the ease with which his father wrote music.
Ease, which one realizes by watching the documentary “Ennio”, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. He could do anything, like talk on the phone, and write music at the same time.
For the movie “Jacket and Vancetti” by director Giuliano Modaldo, Morricone “met after a ten-hour drive with Joan Baez, they sat down at a small table and she wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music,” says his son.
He describes the maestro as deeply hardworking, honest and very closed. “He didn’t communicate with words, but with music”, he says and adds that if he had been involved in music, he would have made the biggest mistake of his life. “I would be like an ant colliding with a skyscraper.”
Having never written music himself, Marco Morricone has no problem singling out some of his father’s work. He has a particular weakness for the music from “Once Upon a Time in America”, one of the top moments of the cinematic collaboration of director Sergio Leone and Morricone.
“This music represents perfection, the marriage between image and music,” says Marco Morricone. The conductor had no favorite subject. “They were all his children and he couldn’t tell them apart,” emphasizes his son.
Like we made two movies
Together with Marco Morricone, he was in Thessaloniki, on the occasion of the screening of the documentary organized by the Cultural Association of Friends of Music Ennio Morricone Greece, Giuseppe Tornatore’s producer, Gianni Russo and the maestro’s biographer, Alessandro De Rosa.
The documentary was based on a long interview of Morricone, which lasted about 50 hours and formed the skeleton, while most of his collaborators talk about the maestro.
This interview gave some “surprising” information, as Gianni Russo typically said. “Both Tornatore and I thought we knew the maestro almost perfectly, but in the end we only knew 10% of him,” he says.
One of the difficulties in making the documentary was that they had to search through a huge amount of works, which were scattered all over the world, but the most difficult part for the producer was the copyright. “The cost and means needed for the production was like making two films,” he emphasizes.
Morricone’s life in Greek
About fifteen years ago, the young musician Alessandro De Rosa found the courage to give a sample of his music to Ennio Morricone, whom he had seen at a concert, and ask him to be his teacher.
“It was courage, but it was also desperation, because I absolutely wanted to find someone to give me an answer,” De Rosa says today.
Morricone responded the next day, told the young man that he should definitely become a musician, but he himself had no time for lessons.
But it was the beginning of a joint journey, with countless hours of discussions that led to De Rosa’s biography of the maestro and a relationship of trust that lasted until his death in July 2020.
The book “Looking for that sound” by Alessandro De Rosa – which was released in Italian in 2016 and has now been translated into 12 languages ​​- at the initiative of the Association, it will be released in Greek on Friday, October 7, 2022 by “Metronomos” publications, in a translation edited by Anna Noussi.
In addition to the initiative for the book and the tribute in Thessaloniki, in the previous days in Athens and on October 4 and 5 in Larissa, the Cultural Association of Friends of Music Ennio Morricone Greece, has created murals inspired by the maestro’s work and continues to plan actions , with the president of the Association, Constantinos Papakostas, stating that “Ennio Morricone is not over”.
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