1. Pino Rucher was an Italian guitarist active in orchestral settings and in film soundtracks.
14 Facts About Pino Rucher
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Pino Rucher's parents decided that he should take private music lessons.
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The presence of American troops in the province of Foggia, between 1943 and 1946 led to Pino Rucher joining several Allied Army's orchestras, where he came into contact with American musical atmosphere and jazz.
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In 1946, Pino Rucher entered the Carlo Vitale orchestra after coming first in a competition for the position of guitarist at Radio Bari.
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Pino Rucher participated in events including the First International Song Festival in Venice in 1955 and several San Remo Music Festivals, among which the 1957 Festival, where Claudio Villa came first with Corde della mia chitarra.
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Pino Rucher took part in many musical events and radio and television broadcasts playing in a number of orchestras and, at the same time, went on cultivating his passion for American music, as can be seen from his transcriptions, with his own arrangements.
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Pino Rucher devoted himself to jazz and performed in live concerts or in studios under the direction of many conductors.
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Pino Rucher worked for orchestra conductor and composer Elvio Monti, who asked him to play in a number of his recordings.
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Pino Rucher played the guitar in L'Estasi, a composition written by Monti for Andrea Giordana and Marina Solinas.
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Pino Rucher took part in Sorella Radio, a production with the RAI orchestra.
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Pino Rucher performed in film soundtracks from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, with at least two hundred performances including those under the direction of orchestra conductors Luis Bacalov, Gianni Ferrio, Elvio Monti, Ennio Morricone, and Riz Ortolani.
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Pino Rucher was the first guitarist to play the electric guitar in Italian westerns, performing as "electric guitar soloist" in A Fistful of Dollars.
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Pino Rucher appears in some shots from Sanremo - La grande sfida, a 1960 movie including scenes from the San Remo Music Festival.
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Pino Rucher played not only the electric guitar, but the folk, the classical, the bass and the twelve-string guitar, and then the banjo, the mandolin and the double bass.