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Lalo Schifrin, composer of Mission: Impossible theme and more than 100 film and TV scores, dies aged 93
The Argentinian composer also wrote the scores for Cool Hand Luke and Dirty Harry, and wrote one of the biggest-selling works in the history of classical music
He also wrote the grand finale musical performance for the World Cup championship in Italy in 1990, in which the Three Tenors – Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras – sang together for the first time. Schifrin, also a jazz pianist and classical conductor, had a remarkable career in music that included working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording with Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan. Schifrin moved easily between genres, winning a Grammy for 1965’s Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts while also earning a nod that same year for the score of TV’s The Man from UNCLE In 2018, he was given an honorary Oscar statuette and, in 2017, the Latin Recording Academy bestowed on him one of its special trustee awards.
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