Italian Music SARAGHINA, LA RUMBA - Fellini - 8 ½ - Nino Rota - Accordion Fisarmonica

‘Saraghina, la rumba !’ is one of the songs in the 1963 movie ‘8 ½’ (‘Otto e mezzo’) by Federico Fellini. The song is played here by the accordion duo Wim Niëns & Jo Brunenberg, on Fisart (Vignoni) and Ottavianelli accordions. Nino Rota is often mentioned as the composer of this song because he created the arrangement for the sound track of this movie, but the original tune in fact is much older and was popular as ‘Fiesta-Bianca’, a Rumba-Foxtrot on the label: ‘Eric Harden and his dance orchestra’ in the 1930’s. About the movie 8 1⁄2 (Otto e mezzo) This movie is a 1963 Italian surrealist comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi. It stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director who suffers from stifled creativity as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. It is shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a soundtrack by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi. ​8 1⁄2 won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design (black-and-white). It is acknowledged as an avant-garde film and a highly influential classic, and it was among the top 10 on BFI The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, ranked third in a 2002 poll of film directors conducted by the British Film Institute. It is also listed on the Vatican’s compilation of the 45 best films made before 1995, the 100th anniversary of cinema. It is now considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. (Source: Wikipedia). More information: About Nino Rota: Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota, was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli’s Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). 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 from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years. (Source: Wikipedia). THE ACCORDEON / ACCORDION CHANNEL Accordion Duo Accordion Duet Musette Accordion Music Instrumental - Rumba - Italian Accordion Music - Accordion waltz Italia - Accordeon muziek - Italiaanse Accordeonmuziek - Musique a l’Accordéon Italien - musica acordeon instrumentala - Akordeon music - Fisarmonica Italia -Accordeon - l’accordeón musique - acordió - أكورديون عزف موسيقى فرنسية - harmonikka - harmonika instrumental - ακορντεόν - бая́н - Баян вальс - muzyka akordeon - akordeony - akordeonowe - akordeonie - ધમણવાળું વાદ્ય - cairdín - harmónikku - 아코디언 - akordeonas - Acordeones - tocando el acordeon - akordeon müzikleri - хармоника - 手風琴演奏 - アコーディオン - ակորդեոն - Вальс мюзетт аккордеона - баяне музыка - Accordion song - Akkordeon Musik - musica fisarmonica - fizarmonikë - música acordeão - harmonika - dragspelsmusik - dragspel - trekkspillmusikk - trekkspill - haitarimusiikkia - бая́н – Nederlandse Accordeonist- Accordionist - acordeonista - acordeoneros - аккордеонист - Walc Akordeon - аккордеон франция - Italië - Nederland – Limburg