Nino Rota inhabits a shadowy cultural space - everyone knows his music but not many people would recognize his name. Rota was the Italian composer who wrote the scores for the first two "Godfather" ...

Well-meaning critics sometimes like to point out that Nino Rota was not “only” a film composer. Classically trained and serious of disposition, Rota (1911-1979) wrote a significant body of concert ...

Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – among many other masterpiece movies – is set for “Nino” a high-profile documentary being ...

A just-reissued album, from 1981, features diverse musicians playing songs that Nino Rota composed for Federico Fellini movies. Critic Kevin Whitehead calls it a charming album that's long overdue.

Rota, who scored most of Fellini’s films, including “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2,” really ventures into experimental territory in “Casanova.” Says Desplat: “I feel like Fellini might have told him, ...

Composer Nino Rota. Public domain image. The music of Nino Rota, to choose just one word, is timeless. His music spans many genres and moods, as the music of a good film composer should. But Rota was ...

"I'm a musician who plays accordeon, not an accordeonist who plays jazz," says Simone Zanchini, proud of a distinction that is substantiated by Nino—his 25th album in the 20 years since his recording ...

This fascinating album should be in any movie lover’s collection. Nino Rota (1911-1979) was one of the leading Italian composers of the 20th century. Some critics however derided him in his own ...

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Many of these melodies will appear in the tribute concert to Rota being given tonight by the great Franco-Italian accordionist Richard Galliano, with a quintet that includes American trumpeter Dave ...