Italian composer, conductor and arranger Renato Serio
died in Rome on November 4th. He was 78. Serio was the author of
theme songs for television programs, including ‘Ciao Darwin’, and conductor of
orchestras in television shows. Born on October 5, 1946 in Lucca, Tuscany,
Italy, he also wrote the music for the Forza Italia anthem. He worked with many
Italian singers and songwriters. He worked with Armando Trovajoli for fiteen
years and Riz Ortolani. He was musical director of the 2005 and 2006 editions
of the Sanremo Festival. In 2006 he released the CD Journey into the Kingdom of
the Beatles, where he reworks the most successful songs of the British band in
a symphonic key. To create this work he worked with the Innovative Syntphonic
Orchestra, which he created, characterized by a successful mixture of acoustic
and electronic instruments. Serio composed the score for the 1979 Spaghetti
western “Garden of Venus” starring Chuck Connors, Jorge Rivero and John
Ireland.
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