Live music: Ennio Morricone

3Arena, Dublin

The music of Ennio Morricone stands at the crossroads between populist and esoteric, gaudy and avant garde.

The composer became iconic by dint of his work with spaghetti western auteur, Sergio Leone: the opening trill and crackle of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is surely one of the most evocative pieces of music of the past 60 years — impossible to listen to without experiencing a vivid flashback to Clint Eastwood scowling beneath a cowboy hat.