The movie devotes itself to Morricone's music, from the pop songs to the spaghetti Westerns to "The Untouchables" and beyond. But it's also about his impishly self-serious personality. The Morricone ...

Gunfights in the desert. Whispered prayers in a cathedral. A boy’s wide-eyed wonder at the movies. This week on Reel Music, experience the Oscar-winning legend who scored them all - Ennio Morricone.

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If would be hard to name an artist in any medium who illustrated Flaubert’s famous maxim of creativity (“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original ...

When composer Ennio Morricone, well into his 80s, lets loose on the “coyote howl” theme he wrote for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and sings the howling part — in a fully committed a capella attack ...

“At first, I thought making music for the cinema was humiliating,” the late film composer Ennio Morricone once said. “By writing, I got my revenge.” That comeuppance came in the form of an Oscar for ...

If a movie wants to have music (and most movies do), then there are two main options. A film can have a score, which is specifically composed for the work it’s attached to – see Ennio Morricone with ...

As a boy, Ennio Morricone dreamed of becoming a doctor, though as anyone who's heard the whistling Western themes that are his signature can tell you, medicine was not the composer's calling. "The ...