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WNYC's Fishko Files: Lalo Schifrin

Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
From: WNYC
Length: 00:07:20

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A recent book by composer Lalo Schifrin is called "Mission Impossible" – after Schifrin's famous TV theme. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us, Schifrin's musical life has been rich with possibilities.

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Lalo Schifrin Script

As often happens with people from far-away places, composer Lalo Schifrin's first glimpse of America... was in the movies. He was a child growing up in Buenos Aires....

Schifrin: ...I was very young at the time, maybe 12 or 13 years old. And we went to see the movie Rhapsody in Blue with my mother and my father and it was... I really like it.

'Rhapsody in Blue' was the 1945, Hollywood-ized version of the life of George Gershwin....And it was the music, even more than the movie, that floored young Lalo.

Schifrin: In Rhapsody in Blue he uses the blue notes. It was fantastic. I didn't know anything about Gershwin.. I went right away to a bookstore that sold American scores and I bought it and I learned it.

Next thing you know -- he'd mastered it.

Schifrin: As a matter of fact I played it in Buenos Aires with Symphony Orchestra. And I was very good. And t...
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Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Theme from Mission: Impossible Lalo Schifrin 00:00
Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin 00:00
Billie's Bounce Charlie Parker Charlie Parker 1944/1946. Jazz Archives 1997 03:09
Otello Verdi 00:00
Theme from Cincinatti Kid Lalo Schifrin 00:00
Theme from Cool Hand Luke Lalo Schifrin 00:00
Theme from Amityville Horror Lalo Schifrin 00:00
Blues Dizzy Gillespie Paris Jazz Concert. Malaco Jazz Classics 1998 10:56
The Mooche Dizzy Gillespie An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quitet. Verve 1999 11:33
Love Stan Getz Reflections. Verve 2003 02:40
Ool Ya Koo Dizzy Gillespie Carnegie Hall Concert. Verve 1993 05:38
Kush Dizzy Gillespie Carnegie Hall Concert. Verve 1993 04:11

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