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SPAGHETTI WESTERN ORCHESTRA

Soundscape-Cinematique

Tuesday, October 28 • 7 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$26 • Dartmouth students $5

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Spaghetti Western Orchestra is a crazy quintet playing the music and hilarious sound effects of iconic Italian “spaghetti western” music-maker Ennio Morricone. The Academy Award-winning composer, who partnered with his school buddy, filmmaker Sergio Leone, punctuated these classic '60s westerns not only with dramatic music, but with the bangs, booms, clatter and clamor that helped define the do-or-die, gun-slinging American West. Now, Spaghetti Western Orchestra, the sell-out hit of the '07 Montreal Jazz Festival, rides into town to conjure up every punch, gunshot and jangling spur of these over-the-top action movies. Playing more than 100 instruments, this outlaw gang of comic maestros also blows on bottles, crushes cornflakes, and creates all sorts of movie mayhem from their saddlebag of sonic tricks. Hear such fabled Morricone soundtracks as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; and Death Rides a Horse—played live in “a witty collage…fully loaded…done to perfection” (Hamburger Abendblatt).