Morricone’s 75th

Italian composer Ennio Morricone will be 75 years old next month, and even so he seems hardly old enough to have written over 400 film scores. That’s a lot of music, but the quality of his work is far more remarkable than the amount. Not only did Morricone revolutionize the role music can play in a film through his scores for the classic Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone, but his wild imagination for instrumental combinations and his over-the-top sensibility created new worlds of sound.
Host David Garland brings you an overview of Morricone’s innovations, including selections his film scores for A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, Duck You Sucker, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, and many others, plus some of Morricone’s free-improvisations with Il Gruppo from the mid-Sixties.