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Rendez-vous with Lalo Schifrin
The Festival de Cannes honours music for its 57th edition with the intervention of Brasilian composer Lalo Schifrin. His Music Masterclass will take place on Monday, May 17th in the Buñuel Theatre.
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 standars like Bullitt, THX 1138, Dirty Harry and Rush Hour…
A piano virtuose, 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.
“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 ar it does the music.”
