Around the selection 2004

"My friend Bernard Herrmann, the musical alter ego of Hitchcock, used to say to me: "There is no such thing as a film music composer. There are only composers." I totally agree with him: good film music is pure music. It should serve the film as much as it does the music."
Lalo Schifrin

Born in Buenos Aires, pupil of Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire in Paris, disciple of Olivier Messiaen, Lalo Schifrin is an inescapable figure in the world of film music. At the crossroads where jazz, pop and folklore meet, his music has deeply marked the sound of Hollywood through standards like Bullitt, THX 1138, Dirty Harry and Rush Hour. A piano virtuoso, composer, conductor, Lalo Schifrin stands out as a kind of go-between or double agent: popular in learned music, and learned in popular music. Between high-entertainment cinema and art house cinema, his music masterclass will be his way to tell how, thanks to and through cinema, he managed to bridge these different cultures.

From among his compositions:

Les Félins by René Clément
The Cincinatti Kid by Norman Jewison
Cool Hand Luke by Stuart Rosenberg
Hell in the Pacific by John Boorman
Bullitt by Peter Yates
Dirty Harry by Don Siegel
THX 1138 by George Lucas
Magnum Force by Ted Post
The Four Musketeers by Richard Lester
Brubaker by Stuart Rosenberg
La Pelle (La Peau) by Liliana Cavani
The Osterman Week-End by Sam Peckinpah
Tango by Carlos Saura
Rush Hour 1 + 2 by Brett Ratner

Lalo Schifrin's Music Masterclass takes place on Monday 17th May at 2.30pm in salle Buñuel.
He is also taking part in the film music concert organised with Sacem on Tuesday 18th May at 8pm in espace Méditerranée.