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Jul 6, 2020 · Morricone was the last player standing in that simul, and Spassky had to concede the half point. Over the years, Morricone played chess with many big names of our sport, including GMs Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Judit Polgar, and Peter Leko.
- Peter Doggers
He once held GM Boris Spassky to a draw [156] in a simultaneous competition with 27 players, where Morricone was the last one standing. [157] On 6 July 2020, Morricone died at the Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, aged 91, as a result of injuries sustained to his femur during a fall.
A Simul or Simultaneous Exhibition for short is a type of chess exhibition play in which one host player plays multiple games at a time with several other players. The host, who gets to play the white pieces, moves from table to table to play a single move.
This is a list of live performances by film score composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player Ennio Morricone. He composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions.
- Days of Heaven
- The Mission
- Ripley’s Game
The high Romantic style of the late nineteenth century isn’t the first thing that comes to mind in a discussion of Morricone’s music. But he was deeply fluent in the idiom, as he often reminded us—never more beautifully than in Terrence Malick’s ravishing Days of Heaven, a period depiction of a conflicted love triangle, and a parable of reaping and...
There’s a pivotal early scene in Roland Joffé’s operatic tale of eighteenth-century Jesuit missionaries and colonial atrocities among the Guaraní people. It shows the resolute priest Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) stopping in a clearing thick with hostile villagers and playing a soothing melody on oboe, which earns him their trust. This theme, fully orches...
“I’m a creation,” Tom Ripley says during a rare moment of candor in Ripley’s Game. “A gifted improviser.” The line provides a key to understanding the motivations of Patricia Highsmith’s signature antihero, embodied by John Malkovich with pitch-perfect reptilian cool. And by way of some sly diegetic scoring, it also highlights the core relationship...
Ennio: The Maestro (Italian: Ennio), also known as The Glance of Music, [3] is a 2021 documentary film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, celebrating the life and legacy of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who died on 6 July 2020.
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Jul 11, 2020 · Ennio Morricone absolutely shines with his heroic score for The Untouchables, where excellent use of instrumentation firmly establishing the tone in 1930s Chicago and a tapestry of great themes makes for one of the most musically exquisite film scores around.
