LALO SCHIFRIN--LIVE IN PARIS SHORT VIDEO (2007)!

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“Lalo Schifrin’s work is spectacular.”
CBS Sunday Morning News

“A musician of exceptional imagination and skill.”
Los Angeles Times

“Such intelligence…such refinement…a far reaching musician.”
La Revue Musical, Paris, France

Before I write about Lalo, you've got to copy, paste and watch this. This is Lalo just last year conducting a full orchestra in Paris performing "The Theme from Mannix" Live!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QBtqTZOuBY&feature=related
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No wait! Here's that same concert with Lalo and Orchestra closing the show with "The Theme from Mission: Impossible". Say what you will, Tom Cruise's movies despite decades of new technology and an over-abundance of ego cannot top the original television series. I met actor Peter Lupus (Willy Armitage) at an auto show and we had a nice chat about the TV series. The main stars were Peter Graves as James Phleps; Leslie Ann Warren as Dana Lambert (for one season but I still can't get her out of my mind!) the late Greg Morris was Barney Collier (A footnote: shortly before Greg died of brain cancer in 1996 in Las Vegas, he reportedly attended the first Tom Cruise "Mission Impossible" movie and hated it so badly that he left the theater) ; Leonard Nimoy was "The Amazing Paris"; Barbara Bain was Cinnamon Carter; then husband Martin Landeau was Rollin Hand; Steven Hill was Daniel Briggs; Lynda Day George was Casey and Barbara Anderson was Mimi Davis. Stay with me this is VERY cool! Paste and play this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XovT8RSjhkc&NR=1
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Lalo Schifrin is a true "Renaissance Man". A pianist, composer and conductor, he is equally at home conducting a symphony orchestra, performing at an international jazz festival, scoring a film or television show, or creating works for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and even The Sultan of Oman. WOW!

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His Classical music training took began in his home of Argentina where he also studied Law. He came from a musical family, and his father, Luis Schifrin, was the concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colon. Lalo continued his formal music education at the Paris Conservatory during the early 1950’s. Simultaneously, he became a professional jazz pianist, composer and arranger, playing and recording in Europe.When Schifrin returned to Buenos Aires in the mid 1950’s, he formed his own big concert band. It was during a performance of this band that Dizzy Gillespie heard Schifrin play and asked him to become his pianist and arranger. In 1958, Schifrin moved to the United States and thus began a remarkable career. My Blog is much too small to do his Biography justice. Here are scant "glimpses", then I'll tell you where to read more if you'd like!

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In the classical composition field, Schifrin has more than 60 works. He has written more than 100 scores for films and television. Among the classic scores are “Mission Impossible,”“Mannix,” “The Fox,” “Cool Hand Luke,” “Bullitt,” “Dirty Harry,” “The Cincinnati Kid,”and “Amityville Horror.” Hey, what about recent film scores? Well, they include “Tango,” “Rush Hour,” “Rush Hour 2,” “Bringing Down The House”, “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” “After the Sunset,” and “Abominable.”

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To date, Lalo Schifrin has won 4 Grammy Awards (with 21 Nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and received 6 Oscar nominations and (as I can personally testify to) he has a Star on the famed "Hollywood Walk of Fame".

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As a jazz musician he has performed and recorded with great personalities such as Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, and Count Basie.

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In January 2000, Schifrin premiered a new work for jazz big band, “Esperanto.” This work features soloists Jean-Luc Ponty (a fusion violinist whom I've seen in concert), Don Byron, Nestor Marconi, James Morrison, Trilok Gurtu, Sydney Thiam, Greg Hutchinson, Simon Stockhausen and the WDR Big Band. “Esperanto” was released on CD in September, 2000.

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Schifrin has been married to his wife, Donna, for more than 30 years. His three children include William, who is a writer for films and television; Frances, who is an art director/designer; and Ryan, who is a film writer/director.

For more information on Lalo Schifrin, please visit:
www.schifrin.com.
(and tell him Michael Manning sent you! ;-)