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Lalo Schifrin, composer of the 'Mission: Impossible' theme, dies at 93
The Argentine who was also a jazz pianist and classical conductor won four Grammys and was nominated for six Oscars.
He also worked with such classical stars as Zubin Mehta, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniel Barenboim and others.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 U.N.C.L.E.” 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.Later film scores included “Tango,” “Rush Hour” and its two sequels, “Bringing Down The House,” “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” “After the Sunset” and the horror film “Abominable.”Writing the arrangements for “Dirty Harry,” Schifrin decided that the main character wasn’t in fact Clint Eastwood’s hero, Harry Callahan, but the villain, Scorpio.“You would think the composer would pay more attention to the hero. 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 U.N.C.L.E.” 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. And for perhaps one of the only operas performed in the ancient Indigenous language of Nahuatl, in 1988 Schifrin wrote and conducted the choral symphony “Songs of the Aztecs.” The work premiered at Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramids with Domingo as part of a campaign to raise money to restore the site’s Aztec temple.
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