Ennio Morricone

I can't remember where I was when I first heard the music of Ennio Morricone, but I remember what I heard -- the four harmonica notes that haunt Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) -- the sensation -- the melding of heart and mind -- and that I was nine- or ten-years-old.

The relationship between heart and mind was echoed recently while watching the opening title sequence of Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969) -- the conflation of fire and blood.