Ennio Morricone; Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra (Radio City Music Hall; 5,500 seats, $200 top)
By Jon Burlingame

“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 enthusiastic crowd at Radio City Music Hall.

Morricone, who will receive an honorary Oscar on Feb. 25, chose 15 of his 400-plus original film and TV scores for concert presentation, starting with the staccato rhythms of The Untouchables and ending with a suite from his widely lauded magnum opus The Mission. Most were arranged into medleys of 11 to 18 minutes, eliminating the choppy “and-then-I-wrote” feel of many solo film-composer programs.”

Read more at Variety…