Ennio Morricone concert @ the Hollywood Bowl, Oct. 25

Composer Ennio Morricone -- whose scores for films by Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma and Giuseppe Tornatore are considered soundtrack classics -- will be making a rare L.A. concert appearance on Oct. 25 at the Hollywood Bowl.

The evening, titled "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," will be Morricone's only concert appearance in the U.S. this year.

Morricone, 80, will lead the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Angeles Chorale in works from his four-decade career in the movie business.

The concert will include excerpts from his scores to the movies "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"; "The Untouchables"; "Cinema Paradiso"; "Once Upon a Time in America"; "The Mission"; "Once Upon a Time in the West"; "A Fistful of Dollars"; "Sacco and Vanzetti"; "The Battle of Algiers"; "A Fistful of Dynamite"; and "U Turn."

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