The film composer has agreedc to write a new anthem for the Olympic Games.
His only condition is that Milan is allowed to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Morricone will be 97 when those Games come round.
Ennio Morricone will write Olympics anthem – if Italy wins
- By norman lebrecht
- on May 15, 2019
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Anything would be better than the current Olympic Anthem, which a piece of trite, sentimentalist garbage.
And the title will be ‘For a few medals more’.
Milan is bidding jointly with Cortina d’Ampezzo, where the actual ski slopes are.