Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932 in Buenos Aires ; real name: Boris Claudio Schifrin ) is an Argentine pianist , composer , arranger and conductor . His best-known compositions include the title themes of the series Kobra, you take over (original title: Mission: Impossible ), Starsky & Hutch and Mannix .
Life
Lalo Schifrin learned to play the piano at the age of six with Enrique Barenboim, the father of the conductor Daniel Barenboim . In his youth he deepened his knowledge as a student of Andreas Karalis and Juan Carlos Paz ; It was also at this time that he became interested in jazz. At 20, Schifrin applied to the Conservatoire de Paris , where he studied with Olivier Messiaen and Charles Koechlin . He financed his studies by performing as a jazz pianist in Parisian nightclubs .
Back in Argentina, he founded a jazz orchestra in which Gato Barbieri played among others . He also performed with Bola Sete , who was touring South America at the time. In 1956 he met Dizzy Gillespie , for whose orchestra he composed the Gillespiana Suite . After Gillespie's Big Band broke up, Schifrin joined the latter's new quintet. He quickly advanced to musical director and arranger. Gillespiana was finally admitted in 1960, and Schifrin stayed with Gillespie's ensemble until 1962. He also wrote The new continent for Gillespie, performed at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival . He also worked as a pianist on Astor Piazzolla 's first tango album, Concert for Bandoneón and Orchestra, recorded in Paris, and worked with Sarah Vaughan , Ella Fitzgerald , Stan Getz , Eric Dolphy and Count Basie .
In 1963, Schifrin was offered by his record company MGM , the soundtrack for the film Rhino! To compose. It was to be the first of over 100 film scores. Schifrin's jazzy compositions for film classics such as Bullitt (1968) or Dirty Harry (1971) gave film music new impulses. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Schifrin also composed some of the best-known theme songs from classic TV series such as Kobra, you take over (original title: Mission: Impossible ) or Mannix .
In 1986 he performed his Salute to the Statue of Liberty with the Glendale Symphony Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl with great success . He composed the overture for the Pan American Games in 1987 and the final in 1995. His Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra was premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra with Angel Romero as soloist.
From 1987 to 1992 he was musical director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Paris. He has conducted many of the major symphony orchestras of the world such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra , the Houston Symphony Orchestra , the Orchestra of Saint Luke and the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina .
From 1989 to 1995 Schifrin was musical director of the Glendale Symphony Orchestra . He wrote the finale for the performance of the Three Tenors in the Caracalla Baths in 1990. In 1992 Diana Ross , Plácido Domingo and José Carreras performed his arrangements together with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the traditional Christmas in Vienna event .
Since 1993 he has recorded the series Jazz Meets the Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra , in which jazz musicians such as Ray Brown , Grady Tate , Jon Faddis , Paquito D'Rivera and James Morrison participated. Another famous "cross-over work" was The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music from the Past as Performed by the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade (also known as Schifrin / Sade ).
Also in 1993 was his Lili'Uokalani Symphony in honor of the last monarch of Hawaii ; in the same year this was recorded, also with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . His Symphonic Sketches of Oman were commissioned by the Sultan of Oman and recorded in 2001 with the London Symphony Orchestra . In 2003 he conducted the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and the Orchester de la Suisse Romande in Geneva .
In his compositions, Schifrin merged elements of classical music with jazz and modern composition techniques of the 20th century. For example, he composed two piano concertos, a Concerto for Double Bass , Pulsations , Tropicos , La Nouvelle Orleans and Resonances .
Schifrin received four Grammy awards , six Oscar nominations and two Golden Globe Awards . He also received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood . In 2012 Lalo Schifrin won the Max Steiner Award at the Hollywood event in Vienna .
Filmography (selection)
Music for TV series
- Solo for ONCEL (The Man from UNCLE)
- Mannix
- Medical center
- Cobra, Take Over (Mission: Impossible)
- Petrocelli
- Starsky & Hutch
Film music
- 1964: Like big cats (Les Félins)
- 1965: Cincinnati Kid
- 1965: New York Express (Blindfold)
- 1967: The Indomitable (Cool Hand Luke)
- 1967: The Fox
- 1968: Bullitt
- 1968: Hell in the Pacific (Hell in the Pacific)
- 1968: Coogan's Bluff (Coogan's Bluff)
- 1969: Che!
- 1970: Assault Troop Gold (Kelly's Heroes)
- 1971: THX 1138
- 1971: Betrayed (The Beguiled)
- 1971: Dirty Harry
- 1972: To hell with Hosanna (The Wrath of God)
- 1972: Sinola
- 1973: The Odyssey of Neptune (The Neptune Factor)
- 1973: Enter the Dragon (Enter the Dragon)
- 1973: Dirty Harry II - Calahan (Magnum Force)
- 1973: The Exorcist (not used in the film)
- 1973: The Big Coup (Charley Varrick)
- 1974: The Four Musketeers - Revenge of Milady (The Four Musketeers)
- 1975: The avenger of California (The Master Gunfighter)
- 1976: The Eagle Has Landed (The Eagle Has Landed)
- 1976: On the track of the eagle (Sky Riders)
- 1976: Reckoning Day (St. Ives)
- 1976: Voyage of the Damned (Voyage of the Damned)
- 1977: Panic in the Sierra Nova (Day of the Animals)
- 1977: Telephone (Telephone)
- 1977: Roller coaster ( rollercoaster , Sensurround film)
- 1978: The Victory of the Star Children (Return from Witch Mountain)
- 1979: A man cleans up (Love and Bullets)
- 1979: Amityville Horror
- 1979: Escape to Athena (Escape to Athena)
- 1979: Airport '80 - Die Concorde (The Concorde: Airport '79)
- 1980: The day the world ended (When Time Ran Out ...)
- 1980: The Nude Bomb (The Nude Bomb)
- 1980: The Big Brawl (The Big Brawl / Battle Creek Brawl)
- 1980: The Grand Finale (The Competition)
- 1980: Brubaker
- 1981: Buddy Buddy
- 1981: Caveman - Who came out of the cave (Caveman)
- 1981: The skin (La pelle)
- 1982: Amityville II: The Possession
- 1983: Dirty Harry Comes Back (Sudden Impact)
- 1983: Dr. Detroit (Doctor Detroit)
- 1983: Starflight One (Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land)
- 1983: Two Boiled Out Crooks (The Sting II)
- 1984: Class of 1984 (Class of 1984)
- 1985: The Mean Season (The Mean Season)
- 1985: AD - Anno Domini (AD)
- 1985: The white coats - Dumber than the doctor allows (Bad Medicine)
- 1986: The Callgirl Club (Beverly Hills Madam)
- 1986: Black Moon (Black Moon Rising)
- 1987: The Fourth Protocol (The Fourth Protocol)
- 1988: The Dead Pool (The Dead Pool)
- 1989: Rome and Back Twice (Little White Lies)
- 1990: Greetings from Africa (Face to Face)
- 1991: F / X 2 - The Deadly Illusion (F / X2)
- 1991: Don Quixote
- 1993: The Beverly Hillbillies are on the loose! (The Beverly Hillbillies)
- 1996: Mission: Impossible (music theme)
- 1997: Money Talks - Money doesn't stink (Money Talks)
- 1998: Tango
- 1998: rush hour
- 2000: Mission: Impossible II (music theme)
- 2001: Rush Hour 2
- 2004: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (video game)
- 2004: After the Sunset
- 2004: Shrek 2
- 2004: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- 2006: Mission: Impossible III (music theme)
- 2006: Abominable
- 2007: Rush Hour 3
- 2007: Ultrasordine
- 2011: Sweetwater
- 2011: Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protocol (music theme)
Awards
- 1965: Grammy for Best Original Jazz Composition for The Cat
- 1968: Grammy for Best Instrumental Subject for Mission: Impossible
- 1968: Oscar nomination in the category of best original film music for The Unyielding (1967)
- 1968: Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for The Fox
- 1977: Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for The Journey of the Damned
- 1980: Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for Amityville Horror
- 1984: Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Film Music for The Sting II
- 2004: International film music award for his life's work at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn
- 2012: Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award Vienna
- 2018: Oscar of honor for his life's work
Web links
- The official website
- Lalo Schifrin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Lalo Schifrin in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hollywood - Honorary Oscars for Lalo Schifrin and Cicely Tyson. In: Deutschlandfunk. Archived from the original on September 7, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schifrin, Lalo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schifrin, Boris Claudio (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian pianist, composer, arranger and conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |