POD presents
ENNIO MORRICONE
First Republic of Ireland date
At the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
July 28th 2013
POD presents a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the legendary Ennio Morricone, live in Ireland this summer.
The most prolific composer in the history of film music will be conducting the Roma Sinfonietta, his 97 piece Italian orchestra, together with a 100-strong choir to perform an unforgettable concert for the first time on the grounds of
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on Sunday 28th July 2013.
As shows go this will be the one to beat them all this summer.
The five-time Oscar nominee has scored several hundred films, the best known being the “spaghetti westerns” including “For A Few Dollars More” and “The Good The Bad and the Ugly” alongside other classics: “The Untouchables”, “The Mission”, “Cinema Paradiso” and more recently Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” and before that “Kill Bill”.
In 2007 the Oscars presented him with an honorary award for his “magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music.”
Having performed in such prestigious venues as the Great Hall in Bejing, the General Assembly Hall of the UN in New York and the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Italian Maestro’s first ever concert in the Republic of Ireland is an unmissable opportunity to experience the astounding work of this musical genius. The concert will trace the composer’s career featuring compositions from his 50 year career composing music for film.
Morricones’ extraordinarily diverse musical approach draws from classical, jazz, pop, rock, electronic, avant-garde, and indigenous Italian music. Esteemed by legendary figures in music such as Quincy Jones and contemporary film directors as Martin Scorsese, Ennio Morricone is an iconic contemporary composer of our time.
Morricone has worked in almost every musical style and medium imaginable. Although the westerns were only a phase of Morricone's expansive career, many consider his work in this field his best and most innovative. Morricone amplified the cinematic atmosphere with his ingenious use of diverse arrangements and instrumentation. The compositions for the Sergio Leone’s westerns were created through multiple mediums such as jew’s harps, dissonant harmonicas, dancing piccolos, bombastic church organs, eerie whistling, thundering trumpets alongside ballads for gunslingers and ghostly vocal choruses.
“Maestro Morricone” has won two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, five BAFTAs during 1979-1992, seven David di Donatello, eight Nastro d'Argento, Legion d’honneur
and the Polar Music Prize in 2010.
Born in Rome in 1928 Ennio first started writing for film and TV in the 50s as well as writing for Italian pop stars of the time. His major breakthrough came in 64 when Ennio was hired by film director Sergio Leone to write the music for a new western entitled “A Fistful of Dollars”. The movie’s success led to further work in this genre before leading on to music scores in the wider film world in the 70s: Exorcist II and Days Of Heaven , more acclaim followed in the 80s with scores for “The Mission” and “Frantic”.
Ennio Morricone’s concert in Dublin on Sunday, July 28th is expected to sell out to the fans from across the generations of “Maestro’s” extraordinary career.
"Ennio Morricone’s congenial compositions and arrangements lift our existence to
another plane, making the mundane feel like dramatic scenes in full Cinemascope"
Polar Music Prize Citation 2010
Tickets priced from EU79.50 for this fully seated intimate outdoor concert will go on sale at 9.00am Wednesday April 3rd from www.Ticketmaster.ie
Well now.
