Film Music Reporter

Variety is reporting that Ennio Morricone‘s concerts in Los Angeles and New York that were set to take place on June 13 & 15, 2014 due to the composer’s “serious health issues”. The events were originally set for this past March, but were postponed due to a back injury as reported earlier this year. The concert at LA Live’s NOKIA Center would have marked Morricone’s first-ever live performance in Los Angeles. The composer of such films as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in America, The Untouchables and Cinema Paradiso has previously only performed in the U.S. once at a 2007 New York event. Also canceled is another concert that was set to take place on June 18 in Mexico City. Another planned concert tour that was set across Europe from late June through March of 2015 will also likely be canceled.