The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composersâ Dramatic âLibrary Musicâ
Compositions made from the 1960s through the â80s to soundtrack films and ads have found new homes on hip-hop tracks and compilations. New artists have been inspired, too.
The record collector Lorenzo Fabrizi, who runs the label Sonor Music Editions, discovered a warehouse of albums containing library music in 2011.Credit.Sonor Music Editions
June 9, 2021Updated 5:23 p.m. ET
One day in the summer of 2011, Lorenzo Fabrizi rode with a friend to an abandoned warehouse far outside of Rome. The custodian of the building, who said he had bought it for around $100, let them inside to look at its contents: 10,000 vinyl LPs, by Fabriziâs estimate. They were welcome to take as many they wanted, the owner said; he was brewing beer in the space and had no use for them.
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Pope Francis leaves after a visit to Radio Vaticana offices in Rome Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) May 24, 2021 - 7:58 AM
ROME (AP) â Pope Francis challenged the Vaticanâs own media employees Monday to essentially justify their continued work, asking them how many people actually consume their news in a critique of the office that costs the Holy See more than all its embassies around the world combined.
Francis visited the Dicastry of Communications, Vatican Radio and the headquarters of the Vaticanâs newspaper, LâOsservatore Romano, which is marking its 160th anniversary. He appeared to use the occasion to lay down the gauntlet at a fraught financial time for the Holy See.
Pope Francis leaves after a visit to Radio Vaticana offices in Rome Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
ROME (AP) – Pope Francis challenged the Vatican’s in-house journalists Monday to essentially justify their continued work, asking them how many people actually consume their news in a critique of the office that costs the Holy See more than all its embassies around the world combined.
Francis visited the Dicastry of Communications, Vatican Radio and the headquarters of the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, which is marking its 160th anniversary. He appeared to use the occasion to lay down the gauntlet at a fraught financial time for the Holy See.