Farewell to Maestro Ennio Morricone
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“Your music, pure delight of the spirit,
goes beyond any treaty of harmony.
It is light for dark moments,
it is company for lonely people,
it is serenity for storms of the soul,
it is emotion for the heartless.
Each of your compositions,
among the noblest works of art, at every listening,
gives the emotion of a new love,
which, thanks to the language of a mature musician,
expression of a lively and young sensitivity,
instills that sense of amazement and admiration
that everyone feels in front of the beauty of the sublime…
Master par excellence, father of an inimitable school,
although often vainly imitated,
with the courage of new intuitions
and the familiarity of an unmistakable style.
The thrill of the orchestra players, when they merge individual sounds
into a vibration in unison, an admirable mosaic of author
or academic counterpoint…
…our luck, for not being born before your century.”
(Luciano Lombardi – Rome, 1997)
