Oscar honoree Morricone conducts in U.S.
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Ennio Morricone, who has been performing for some six decades and is heading to Hollywood to pick up a long-awaited Academy Award, finally made his conducting debut on the shores of the United States.
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Organizers on Thursday unveiled details of this year's Academy Awards, including Oscar-presenting roles for stars such as Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman whose presence was in doubt due to the Hollywood writers strike.
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Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates arrives for the 75th annual Academy Awards in this Sunday, March 23, 2003 file photo in Los Angeles.
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The Oscars are all about movies, of course, but on this night only music filled the golden guy's hallowed hall.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - Technology to preserve digital movies on black and white film and environmentally friendly sound tracks got awards at the Oscars ceremony for scientific achievement on Saturday night, but the favorite technical accomplishment was a juggler performing to Beatles music.
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There aren't many  composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a  couple of whistled notes. Such is the influence of Ennio  Morricone that all it takes is a bit of whistling to evoke the  Italian composer's masterful, genre-defying work on the  spaghetti westerns he scored for Sergio Leone -- films such as  1967's "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More" and  "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
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Music's heavy hitters turned out for the Grammy Awards' 50th anniversary ceremony Sunday in celebratory and respectful outfits. The fringe outfits were left to up-and-comers or those looking for some paparazzi shots.
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Cncerto con Garfunkel per il premio George Gershwin
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The composer belts out an impressive concert.
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Music from politically themed films  scored top Oscars on Sunday, while the winners used their  moment of glory to push issues ranging from global warming to  gay marriage.
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Film director Stephen Spielberg, singers Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta will be honored in December by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Pianist Leon Fleisher, actor Steve Martin, singers Diana Ross and Brian Wilson and film director Martin Scorsese will share the 30th annual honors of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in December.
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The music composer was in the US for his concert.
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The 50th annual Grammy Awards veered through a succession of live production numbers that celebrated the links between older generations of stars and modern-day performers.
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Heard at the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards:
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Rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis, country star Eddy Arnold and late jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton are among recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Recording Academy, which also presents the Grammy Awards.
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The White House was all jazzed up Thursday night. Toes were tapping. Fingers were snapping and a drummer kept the beat for more than a dozen performers singing and playing at a black-tie event in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz.