Home-->m-comment-000-eng-->mb-comment-004-49-eng

Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 4-49

LA RAGAZZA E IL GENERALE [THE GIRL AND THE GENERAL] (1967) La Ragazza e il Generale – The Girl and the General – is an Italian comedy war film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. It stars Virna Lisi as Ada, a beautiful young woman who teams up with a young soldier named Tarasconi (Umberto Orsini) to deliver an Austrian General (played by Rod Steiger) to Italian forces during World War I, and in doing so collect a 1,000 lire reward. However, as the three unlikely travelling companions make their way to the rendezvous, circumstances conspire to make them all question their opinions about each other, as well as their views on the conflict as a whole. The complete score for La Ragazza e il Generale has never been released but the main title piece has been included on several Morricone compilations over the years, most notably the 3-CD set Ennio Morricone Gold released by GDM/Edel Italy in 2005. The theme is a peculiar, pompous little march for brass and rapped snares that is bright and militaristic and oddly cheerful. Of course it wouldn’t be a Morricone score if he didn’t do something completely bizarre to the theme, and on this score that thing is to include a chirpy, high pitched little recorder motif, and an equally high-pitched male vocalist intoning an unintelligible word that sounds like ‘lasso’ over and over again. You can listen to the piece on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxztiaJYuo.

July 18, 2020

Film Appreciation on This Website

Online music audition

No. Name  Audition 001 La ragazza e il generale （01:41） 002 Suite （03:39）

More see here

Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)

2023.11.26

2023 Mobile version

latest webpage	Email to me	VIP	Payment
Philately	The site	standby	Collection transfer
Started running in 2003. The site http://morricone.cn standby http://em.hty66.com 信息产业部备案序号（2014）: 苏ICP备11039856号 © 2015 hwg 版权所有