ROME (AP) — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t such a drawback.

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 ...

Legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone has died in Rome following complications from a fall last week. He was 91. The towering musical maestro composed more than 400 scores for cinema and TV, as ...

A process familiar to director Quentin Tarantino led to the first original score for one of his films to date. Quentin Tarantino first met composer Ennio Morricone at the Cannes premiere of ...

Tarantino has previously cited Howard Hawks' John Wayne Western and "hangout movie" as his favorite film, and while the tone ...

For champions of Morricone’s legacy, the production — with its starry cast headed by sopranos Maria Agresta and Jessica Pratt — is part of a long-due rediscovery of the composer’s classical works.

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