Rossellini

MARIO NASCIMBENE MEETS FILM DIRECTOR ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

In 1967 Roberto Rossellini loses its favorite composer, their own brother Renzo that had composed until that moment
the italian director's scores. Little could suppose Roberto Rossellini that with the tragic death of their brother Renzo,
would have the opportunity to begin one of the most fruitful collaborations in all their career. In its desperation to find a
substitute for their brother, Rossellini called one day to the maestro Nascimbene to write the score from "THE FIGHT
FOR SURVIVAL", an extense series for Italian television in 12 episodes that attempted to reflect the man's fight from
the prehistory for surviving in a hostile world, where the one that conquers is almost always the one stronger.
Traveling along the series the different humanity's ages, Rossellini needed a not-usual score, and Nascimbene it
accentuated with their brutal score the one frantic rhythm and the force that the story needed.

The main title is a vocal topic, in which are present also primitive percu ssions, effects of Mixerama, and a voice of
great quality "tímbrica", the british star of the song Ms. Shirley Bassey that are among some of their collaborations the
famous scores of James Bond "GOLDFINGER", "DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER", and "MOONRAKER" all them
composed by John Barry, or "THE LIQUIDATOR", composed by Lalo Schifrin.

Rossellini entered in the Meridian studies and he hugged Mario for the one result of the music. Definitively, Roberto
had found to their composer ...Mario Nascimbene.The following collaboration between both was very important and
also It was carried out for the TV. Their title was "ACTS OF THE APOSTLES", and it was the most important inside the
experimental point of view. Mario it used the Mixerama, and Rossellini again fell in love completely of the magic mixer
and of their sound possibilities. Mario comments about Rossellini...... "I am sure that Roberto has liked to stay to

to sleep in Meridiana Studio, and to be able to spend this way more time "playing" with the maestro's mixing console.

"ACTS OF THE APOSTLES" was about the teachings and influence of the one Christianity in the Roman, Hellenic and
Hebrew worlds. Besides effects of the Mixerama, Nascimbene used the voice in "pathos arcaico" of the Hindu
vocalist, Sonali Das Gupta, as well as certain hindu instruments like tampuras, sitars, and sofars. The complement

Deluxe it put it the presence of one of the best flute performers in the world, the maestro Severino Gazelloni that
executed four types of different flutes that helped with their sonorities to reflect those

different characters of the apostles. They followed later "SOCRATE" (1970), "PASCAL" (1971), "AGOSTINO DI
IPPONA" (1972), and "CARTESIUS" (1974), all them biographies about great philosophers, where Nascimbene
expressed great part of its personality and musical knowledge. In this time, Rossellini enthused hours and hours in
Meridiana "playing" with the Mixerama, always under the attentive look of its faithful and calm dog "Baruf", a dog
shepherd of Bergamo that felt adoration for Rossellini. Baruf honored with a double it pirouettes to its master's
friends, whenever he requested it to him. When Nascimbene finished the recording and mixing of "CARTESIUS",
Rossellini told to Mario.... "You deserves a homage of Baruf." After "ANNO UNO", a film on the Italian resistance
during the war, Rossellini filmed its last movie, an authentic masterpiece it works "THE MESSIAH". The morning
on June, 3 1977, Lello Versani phoned to Nascimbene..................... "Roberto has died... suddenly.........."