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In the meantime, he composed works marked by his jazz-classical fusion style, including the 1963 ballet Jazz Faust and 1965's Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts.Īfter establishing himself on episodes of television series such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Schifrin joined the music department of the spy series Mission: Impossible.
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in 1963 (Rhino!) and moved to Hollywood, soon finding a niche composing for both TV and the silver screen. Schifrin accepted his first film-scoring assignment in the U.S. He became Gillespie's musical director until 1962, contributing another suite, The New Continent, before leaving the position to concentrate on his writing. In 1960, Schifrin moved to New York City and joined Gillespie's quintet, which recorded Gillespiana to much acclaim. He completed the five-movement Gillespiana in 1958, the same year he became an arranger for Xavier Cugat. His status as a bandleader helped him meet Dizzy Gillespie in 1956, and Schifrin offered to write a suite for Gillespie. After returning to Buenos Aires, he started his own 16-piece, Basie-style jazz band, the first of its kind in Argentina, and found work as a pianist and arranger. In his off hours, he played in Parisian jazz clubs, and in 1955, he represented Argentina in the Paris International Jazz Festival. After winning a scholarship to the Paris Conservatory in the early '50s, he studied with French composers Charles Koechlin and Olivier Messiaen. As a teenager, he studied piano with the former head of the Kiev Conservatory, Andreas Karalis, and harmony with composer Juan Carlos Paz.
When Lalo was six years old, his dad arranged for him to begin studying piano with Enrique Barenboim, father of celebrated pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim. Like contemporaries Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, and André Previn, he is best known for his jazz-inflected scores, including the crime film Bullitt, the Dirty Harry franchise, and his iconic "Theme from Mission: Impossible."īorn Boris Claudio Schifrin in Buenos Aires in 1932, Schifrin grew up with a father who played violin with the Teatro Colón Orchestra. With a career spanning the second half of the 20th century and two decades beyond, Lalo Schifrin is an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated film and television composer who is also an acclaimed jazz pianist and classical composer.
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