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Hans Zimmer leads tributes to Ennio Morricone on late icon’s 92nd birthday
a new mini-documentary, which remembered Morricone and celebrated his first posthumous album ‘Morricone Segreto’, Zimmer described the composer as being “at his most imaginative, daring, yet charming”.Celebrating Ennio Morricone: The Secrets Behind His Genius captures the reunion of the famed composer’s closest collaborators at his studio in Rome, on what would have been his 92nd birthday.The reunion included five musicians who Morricone had dubbed his “Dream Team”: Argentinean organist Giorgio Carnini, composer Bruno Battisti D’Amario, saxophonist Gianni Oddi, pianist Enrico Pieranunzi and vocalist Edda Dell’Orso.Describing the film and Morricone’s impact more broadly, Zimmer said: “Ennio Morricone always surprised and delighted.
