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" ...

Italian composer Nino Rota is best known for his film scores for The Godfather and Romeo and Juliet. With over 150 scores to his name, there's plenty of incredible music to explore. Join us for a deep ...

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.

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 ...

“There is only one real function of film music,” Igor Stravinsky wrote in 1946 in the Musical Digest, “namely to feed the composer.” That wasn’t very nice. But his sentiment remains as sticky as a ...