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Peter Galasso
Peter Galasso is a self-taught guitarist and has been playing for more than 50 years
About Me
Peter Galasso�s love for music began at 7 years old when his mother
recorded him singing
an Italian novelty song, “Eh Cumpari”, made famous by then chart-topper,
Julius LaRosa.
At about the same time he would steal into his father�s closet and secretly
play the old
man�s mandolin. Not surprisingly, this is when Peter�s love of film scores
began. The first
tune he picked out by ear was the half-tone melody of �The Third Man
Theme�, written by
Anton Karas for Carol Reed�s 1949 film, �The Third Man�, starring Orson
Wells.
It was a short leap from mandolin to self-taught guitar. Then came piano and
tenor sax
and gigging in bands too numerous to mention, playing rock and roll, jazz,
classical, and
country rock in bars, coffee houses and colleges in New Jersey, Manhattan,
Long Island,
New England and Upstate New York. With the advent of midi in the early
1980�s, Peter�s
dreams truly began to materialize. He could now write multi part scores and
play them
back via computer. His passion for marrying music to visual images grows
stronger every
day!
