Mission impossible : my life in music / Lalo Schifrin ; edited by Richard Palmer.
| Author/creator | Schifrin, Lalo |
| Other author | Palmer, Richard, 1947- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2008. |
| Description | xvii, 219 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.). |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in jazz ; no. 56 Studies in jazz ; 56. ^A141750 |
| Contents | Roots and beginnings. Prologue ; Prelude ; Fugue ; International incidents #1, Paris ; South American genius I, music ; South American genius II, Jorge Luis Borges -- From Gillespiana to Jazz Meets the Symphony. Gillespiana ; A Dizzy Gillespie miscellany ; The verve years and a first marquis ; Jazz mass ; Jazz Meets the Symphony #1 ; Jazz Meets the Symphony #2 and #3 ; A second marquis ; The Esperanto suite -- More jazz. Anecdotes and vignettes -- Interlude. International incidents #2, the Cuban missle crisis ; Resonances ; International incidents #3, The Fourth Protocol redux ; International incidents #4, Sofia ; A vignette miscellany -- Film. Composing for film and TV ; Film vignettes -- Symphonic variations. Dies Irae ; Scales and arpeggios ; Fantasy for Screenplay and Orchestra ; The Triple Concerto ; Cantos Aztecas ; The Three Tenors and the opera world ; A Polynesian adventure, Lili'Uokalani Symphony ; The Paris Philharmonic ; Bix ; Oman ; Donna. Romanza, For Donna -- Finale. Things to come -- Appendix: composer credits. |
| Contents | Accompanying CD contents: Mission impossible. Firebird -- Sketches of Miles. More jazz meets the symphony -- Tango del atardecer. Letters from Argentina -- Ins and outs. Ins and outs and Lalo live at the blue note -- Montuno. Latin jazz suite -- Shifting gears. Bullitt -- Kyrie. Jazz mass -- Charlie Parker: the firebird. Firebird -- Tocata. Gillespiana. |
| Abstract | This is the autobiography of Lalo Schifrin, the musician, conductor, and composer of more than 60 jazz and classical works and over 100 film and television scores, including Bullitt, the Rush Hour series, Cool Hand Luke, The Dead Pool, Tango, The Fox, Voyage of the Damned, The Amityville Horror, The Sting II, and Mission Impossible. Edited by Richard Palmer, this autobiography is a journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and jazz atmospheres in Paris in the 1950s; and from his jazz career in the United States with Dizzy Gillespie from 1958-1963 to his development as a film and television composer from 1963 to the present. Organized in eight parts, the book reflects on Schifrin's cosmopolitan experience and provides impressions and vignettes of the extraordinary people with whom he worked. As a composer whose works bridge three main musical styles--jazz, classical, and film and television--his autobiography offers invaluable insights on all three genres, as well as politics, literature, and travel. This significant volume includes over 30 photos, appendixes listing Schifrin's works, and a discography, as well as an audio CD featuring some of Schifrin's greatest compositions. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib CD-10472. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 191-201), and index. |
| LCCN | 2008000653 |
| ISBN | 9780810859463 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0810859467 (hardback : alk. paper) |