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COMPOSER LALO SCHIFRIN TO RECEIVE COMMANDEUR OF ARTS AND LETTERS BY FRANCE’S ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES
Schifrin To Appear At Two Festivals As A Special Guest
Cinematheque Festival To Feature a Retrospective of Schifrin’s Films (November 9-14)
Festival du Cinéma & Musique de Film de la Baule Featuring Tribute To Schifrin With A Special Concert Featuring His Music (November 9-13)
(October 27, 2016 – Los Angeles, CA) – On November 8th France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres will be presenting composer Lalo Schifrin with their prestigious Commandeur of Arts and Letters. Two festivals in France will be paying tribute to Schifrin over the subsequent seven days.
"Words cannot express my gratitude to the French Minister of Culture, Madame Audrey Azoulay, for this recognition. I feel overwhelmed by this distinction and it humbles me," said Schifrin, who was previously named a Chevalier (Knight) by the Ordre des Arts des Lettres.
The Cinematheque Festival opens with, and will feature films from Schifrin’s career, including screenings of COOL HAND LUKE, COOGAN’S BLUFF, and BULLITT. On November 9th, Lalo will be participating in signing, and a special audience Q&A before the screening of DIRTY HARRY, which will feature a special musical performance by Schifrin. The festival runs from November 9-14.
The same week the Festival du Cinéma & Musique de Film de la Baule will also be screening films from Schifrin’s catalog. On June 12, the Baule Festival will pay tribute to Schifrin as part of their Cine-Concert and awards ceremony.
Lalo Schifrin is a true Renaissance man. As 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.
As a young man in his native Argentina, Lalo Schifrin received classical training in music, and 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 Schifrin continued his formal music education at the Paris Conservatory during the early 1950’s, studying with numerous teachers including famed composer Olivier Messiaen. Simultaneously he became a professional jazz pianist, composer and arranger, playing and recording in Europe at night.
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.
To date, Lalo Schifrin has written over 100 film and television scores including Mission Impossible, Mannix, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, Amityville Horror, four of the Dirty Harry films, and more recently Abominable and the Rush Hour trilogy. Lalo Schifrin has now won five Grammys® (twenty-two nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and six Academy Award® nominations. His longtime involvement in both the jazz and symphonic worlds came together in 1993 as pianist and conductor for his on-going series of “Jazz Meets the Symphony” recordings.
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Mention of this honour (I think), but in any event a new programme on BBC radio devoted to the maestro, including new interviews regarding his early career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083qmvt
Quite an interesting programme, thanks for the link.
Good to hear they didn't use the rather inferior (IMO) WDR Big Band version of the Mannix theme. And slightly irritating to hear the presenter repeatedly refer to him as 'Lay-lo'.
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Nov 27, 2016 - 12:02 PM
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Good to hear a recent interview with the great Lalo Schifrin. I hope he lasts forever.
But Simon's right about the annoying "Laylo"! I mean, how is it possible for Kevin LeGendre (he pronounces his own name very well), a jazz writer who has presented programmes about how jazz can be explored as a learning tool by the uninitiated, who has written about Miles Davis, Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, who has even documented the jazz scene - in person - in Barcelona of all places, not know that we don't say bloody Laylo! What's next - Gayto Barbieri?
A couple of other things irritated me about the presenter, and I think it goes beyond film score geeks' pet peevdoms - "Laylo Schifrin is one of THE soundtrack arrangers..." was said in the introduction, and later, "One of his most famous pieces is the theme song from Mission Impossible..." Aren't we talking about professional journalists here? I think that that kind of thing is simply shoddy. To hear Joe Bloggs in the bar go on about "film music arrangers" and "the song from The Great Escape" is normal. So it's now acceptable on the radio? Is that an example of dumbing down? Ignorance? Unless someone convinces me otherwise, Kevin LeGendre is terrible.
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What's next - Gayto Barbieri?
LOL 
To be honest, I didn't learn anything that was really new. I'd never heard of the presenter before, but I wasn't impressed. Sounds like he was just reading from a script written by someone else, which isn't exactly new.
Laylo must get pretty tired of the same sort of questions!
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Nov 28, 2016 - 2:46 PM
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Good to hear a recent interview with the great Lalo Schifrin. I hope he lasts forever.
But Simon's right about the annoying "Laylo"! I mean, how is it possible for Kevin LeGendre (he pronounces his own name very well), a jazz writer who has presented programmes about how jazz can be explored as a learning tool by the uninitiated, who has written about Miles Davis, Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, who has even documented the jazz scene - in person - in Barcelona of all places, not know that we don't say bloody Laylo! What's next - Gayto Barbieri?
A couple of other things irritated me about the presenter, and I think it goes beyond film score geeks' pet peevdoms - "Laylo Schifrin is one of THE soundtrack arrangers..." was said in the introduction, and later, "One of his most famous pieces is the theme song from Mission Impossible..." Aren't we talking about professional journalists here? I think that that kind of thing is simply shoddy. To hear Joe Bloggs in the bar go on about "film music arrangers" and "the song from The Great Escape" is normal. So it's now acceptable on the radio? Is that an example of dumbing down? Ignorance? Unless someone convinces me otherwise, Kevin LeGendre is terrible.
I think so too. A film composer should be judged by several works, not just the main title from a feature film or television series. By the way, "Lalo" is a derivative of the name "Claudio" (according to the composer himself). I find the term "soundtrack arranger" instead of "film composer" absolutely annoying. Apparently Kevin Legendre and Joe Boggs know nothing about film music.
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Nov 28, 2016 - 5:06 PM
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Good to hear a recent interview with the great Lalo Schifrin. I hope he lasts forever.
But Simon's right about the annoying "Laylo"! I mean, how is it possible for Kevin LeGendre (he pronounces his own name very well), a jazz writer who has presented programmes about how jazz can be explored as a learning tool by the uninitiated, who has written about Miles Davis, Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, who has even documented the jazz scene - in person - in Barcelona of all places, not know that we don't say bloody Laylo! What's next - Gayto Barbieri?
A couple of other things irritated me about the presenter, and I think it goes beyond film score geeks' pet peevdoms - "Laylo Schifrin is one of THE soundtrack arrangers..." was said in the introduction, and later, "One of his most famous pieces is the theme song from Mission Impossible..." Aren't we talking about professional journalists here? I think that that kind of thing is simply shoddy. To hear Joe Bloggs in the bar go on about "film music arrangers" and "the song from The Great Escape" is normal. So it's now acceptable on the radio? Is that an example of dumbing down? Ignorance? Unless someone convinces me otherwise, Kevin LeGendre is terrible.
I think so too. A film composer should be judged by several works, not just the main title from a feature film or television series. By the way, "Lalo" is a derivative of the name "Claudio" (according to the composer himself). I find the term "soundtrack arranger" instead of "film composer" absolutely annoying. Apparently Kevin Legendre and Joe Boggs know nothing about film music.[/
Plus it's the Theme from Mission Impossible, not song!
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Nov 30, 2016 - 9:56 AM
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Graham Watt
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COMPOSER LALO SCHIFRIN TO RECEIVE COMMANDEUR OF ARTS AND LETTERS BY FRANCE’S ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES
Schifrin To Appear At Two Festivals As A Special Guest
Cinematheque Festival To Feature a Retrospective of Schifrin’s Films (November 9-14)
Festival du Cinéma & Musique de Film de la Baule Featuring Tribute To Schifrin With A Special Concert Featuring His Music (November 9-13)
(October 27, 2016 – Los Angeles, CA) – On November 8th France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres will be presenting composer Lalo Schifrin with their prestigious Commandeur of Arts and Letters. Two festivals in France will be paying tribute to Schifrin over the subsequent seven days.
"Words cannot express my gratitude to the French Minister of Culture, Madame Audrey Azoulay, for this recognition. I feel overwhelmed by this distinction and it humbles me," said Schifrin, who was previously named a Chevalier (Knight) by the Ordre des Arts des Lettres.
The Cinematheque Festival opens with, and will feature films from Schifrin’s career, including screenings of COOL HAND LUKE, COOGAN’S BLUFF, and BULLITT. On November 9th, Lalo will be participating in signing, and a special audience Q&A before the screening of DIRTY HARRY, which will feature a special musical performance by Schifrin. The festival runs from November 9-14.
The same week the Festival du Cinéma & Musique de Film de la Baule will also be screening films from Schifrin’s catalog. On June 12, the Baule Festival will pay tribute to Schifrin as part of their Cine-Concert and awards ceremony.
As a pacifist, I only "virtually" kicked Kevin LeGendre's ignorant head in, with the on-line help of a few other cyber-thugs. That was all about the radio programme ("the famous soundtrack arranger Laylo Schifrin wrote the theme song for Mission Impossible").
So this is about the original post. I did a quick search, but couldn't find much on how the event went. Not that I tried very hard. But I did find this - from November 9th, Lalo Schifrin doing a signing at the Festival. He looks quite chuffed and enjoying himself. Pity you can't hear what he's saying... I imagine he's speaking in French, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZLqIaT-roo
Update - there's actually another one I've just found on YT of the great man playing the theme from Mission Impossible at the Festival, but... ouch... God love him, but it's not his best moment.
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