Schifrin crafted one of the most iconic pieces of theme music in the modern era as part of a long career in film and TV.

The Argentine native blended jazz and classical music, earned six Oscar noms and four Grammys and inspired a martial-arts ...

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Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his scores for Mission: Impossible and more than 200 other films ...

The Grammy Award-winning musician is remembered for a career spanning 60 years with more than 100 scores to his name.

Lalo Schifrin, the legendary composer who penned the instantly recognizable Mission: Impossible theme and did scores for more ...

Lalo Schifrin, the legendary composer who wrote the Mission: Impossible theme and provided the score for Dirty Harry, died Thursday at 93. The news was confirmed by his son, William Schifrin, to NPR.

“Our North Star was Lalo Schifrin’s timeless theme,” Aruj told IndieWire, noting that as long as he and Godfrey weaved that original theme into the score, they had complete freedom to follow ...

“All I knew was that it would start with the lighting of a fuse,” said Lalo Schifrin about writing the “Mission: Impossible” theme song for the 1966-73 TV series.

The main theme of Mission: Impossible, composed by Lalo Schifrin, is unmistakeable. Some have suggested that Schifrin used the Morse code as a starting point for his composition, as the two dashes ...