Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone – Link to album on Apple Music.
What a great way to end the year! Listen to this music, created by a group of hus in a hall somewhere in Rome. This is what we can accomplish. We can create beauty, we can work together for a common goal. Morricone orchestrated, conducted, and produced the album. The orchestra is the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta (Wikipedia), which Morricone uses a lot. Plus Yo-Yo Ma, of course.
I’m listening to this while sitting, waiting in a car in Trader Joe’s parking lot on a bright Santa Fe morning. Watching people bustling about on their errands, accompanied by these beautiful, sentimental scores, fills my heart. I feel related to each fellow being. I really love them!