Tuesday Classics - Nino Rota (Part 2)

Join Tuesday Classics host David Schonfeld from 4-8 p.m. on December 6 to hear part two of a celebration of centenarian composer Nino Rota (December 3, 1911, Milan – April 10, 1979, Rome).

During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions. Among the directors with whom Rota collaborated are Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Franco Zeffirelli, and Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside this great body of film work, Rota composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works. He also composed the music for many theatre productions as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years. [Facts taken from the Wikipedia entry on the composer.]