Boris Claudio “Lalo” Schifrin, the composer, arranger and pianista pianist known to most, leaves us at 93 years for writing the famous theme of Mission Impossible.
The news was confirmed by the family, who also motivated the disappearance: some complications due to pneumonia.
Famous for his indistinguishable jazz touch, Schifrin in his very long and bright career has set over a hundred film between films and TV series. His masterpiece came in 1966, with the soundtrack of the Serie A Mission episode: Impossible, which will then become a successful Hollywood franchise thanks to the films with Tom Cruise at the end of the millennium.
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1932, and then moved just twenty years old to Paris with the dream of playing jazz. There he had shared the stage with artists of the caliber of Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie.
