In 2012, a Variety poll of 40 top current film composers voted Ennio Morricone’s THE MISSION (1986) as the greatest film score of all time.
It truly IS a great score, and his cue “Gabriel’s Oboe” has become one of the most popular pieces he ever wrote.
Here he conducts it in 2004:
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Over the course of his long career, Ennio Morricone worked with some of the most well-known directors in Hollywood and beyond.
But his most famous collaboration was with Sergio Leone. Starting with 1964’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, Morricone would score all of Leone’s movies.
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And now, in honor of the great John Philip Sousa on this the day of his birth in 1854, I present to you the single greatest use of his music in all of film history:
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