Ennio Morricone is as about close as a film composer can come to being a household name — and, at age 88, he's still going strong. This year, he was signed to a new record label and has now released a ...

Veteran Italian film composer Ennio Morricone made his U.S. conducting debut Saturday night, performing many of his best-known movie themes with a 100-piece orchestra and a 100-voice choir before an ...

ROME– After composing some 450 movie scores, Ennio Morricone has scaled the heights of Italy’s highbrow music establishment: He’s landed a gig to conduct Milan’s La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra on an ...

While best known for his work with Sergio Leone — specifically the iconic, whistle-heavy theme for classic spaghetti western The Good, The Bad & the Ugly — Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific ...

Legendary film composer Ennio Morricone will bring some of his most iconic works to life for two concerts in the U.S. next year. As BrooklynVegan points out, the 84-year-old will play Los Angeles’ ...

TRIBUTE acts are ten-a-penny, but few are as original, inventive and downright odd as Australia’s The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, who ride into town next week. Did you know with a Digital ...

Over the weekend, I caught a showing of Morricone Conducts Morricone, a stunning video that shows the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra and Choir in 2004.

Has Ennio Morricone written 450 film scores, or is it more like 500? The great man himself isn’t sure. Add to them his hundreds of concert music works, and you have a life’s work that simply beggars ...

Film composer Ennio Morricone, known for his use of harmonica and whistling on Western scores, has re-imagined his most popular sounds with help... 'Morricone 60': An Orchestra-Infused Look At A ...