The Piano Music of LALO SCHIFRIN

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1 As a young an in his nativ Argntina, Lalo Schifrin rcivd classical training in usic, and also studid law H ca fro a usical faily, and his fathr, Luis Schifrin, was th concrtastr of th Philharonic Orchstra of Bunos Airs at th Tatro Colon H continud his foral usic ducation at th Paris Consrvatory during th arly 190 s Siultanously, h ca a profssional azz pianist, coposr and arrangr, aying and rcording in Europ Whn Schifrin rturnd to Bunos Airs in th id 190 s, h ford his own ig concrt and It was during a prforanc of this and that Dizzy Gillspi hard Schifrin ay and askd hi to co his pianist and arrangr In 198, Schifrin ovd to th Unitd Stats and thus gan a rarkal carr Ed Mirian Conti His usic is a synthsis of traditional and twntith-cntury tchniqus, and his arly lov for azz and rhyth ar strong attriuts of his styl Invocations, Concrto for Doul Bass, Piano Concrtos No 1 and No 2, Pulsations, Tropicos, La Nouvll Orlans, and Rsonancs ar xas of this tndncy to uxtapos univrsal thoughts with a kind of laoratd priitivis In th classical coposition fild, Schifrin has or than 60 works H has writtn or than 100 scors for fils and tlvision Aong th classic scors ar Mission Ipossil, Mannix, Th Fox, Cool Hand Luk, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, Th Cincinnati Kid and Aityvill Horror Rcnt fil scors includ Tango, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour, Bringing Down Th Hous, Th Bridg of n Luis Ry, Aftr th Sunst, and Aoinal Th Piano Music of LALO SCHIFRIN LALO SCHIFRIN is a tru Rnaissanc an As a pianist, coposr and conductor, h is qually at ho conducting a syphony orchstra, prforing at an intrnational azz fstival, scoring a fil or tlvision show, or crating works for th Los Angls Char Orchstra, th London Philharonic and vn Th Sultan of Oan It is Schifrin s aility to switch usical gars which aks hi so uniqu in th usic world As a azz usician h has prford and rcordd with grat prsonalitis such as Dizzy Gillspi, rah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgrald, Stan Gtz, Count Basi, Jon Faddis, Jas Moody, Loui Bllson, and Knny Burrll Schifrin has n arrid to his wif, Donna, for or than 0 yars His thr childrn includ Willia, who is a writr for fils and tlvision; Francs, who is an art dirctor/dsignr; and Ryan, who is a fil writr/dirctor For or inforation on Lalo Schifrin, as visit wwwschifrinco It is truly a oy to prfor Lalo Schifrin s piano usic, and to al to undrstand how h can asily travl fro on gnr to anothr in such a astrful and virtuoso way: fro azz, to tangos, to classical, and all xtrly pianisticw ar oth two Argntins on a ission Mirian Conti KEISER MUSIC Lalo Schifrin, th intrnationally rnownd coposr of classical, fil and tlvision scors, in collaoration with fllow Argntinian pianist Yaaha artist Mirian Conti, producd th ost coprhnsiv rcording of his works for piano solo, including svral world prièrs Th alu's rlas was hraldd y th Consulat Gnral of Argntina in Nw York in Novr of 2017, undr th Auspics of Yaaha Artist Srvics with a rcption in honor of Schifrin's usic This xclusiv pulication aks all th works fro this landark rcording availal to pianists worldwid, and includs a uniqu arrangnt of th faous th to Mission: Ipossil y th coposr hislf Mirian Conti's alu, Lalo Schifrin Piano Works (Grand Piano Rcords#GP776) is availal on Aazon, ituns, Spotify, NaxosDirct, and ArkivMusic S10029 HL S10029 kisrsouthrnusicco $99 US HL EAN 1 Th Piano Music of LALO SCHIFRIN ditd y Mirian Conti Includs Concrt Piano arrangnt of ission: ipossil y th coposr

2 Th Piano Music of LALO SCHIFRIN ditd y Mirian Conti CONTENTS Introduction: Schifrin and His Many Worlds2 Part I: Mission Ipossil, Tangos and Dancs Mission: Ipossil Th Tango dl Atardcr 8 Tango a Borgs 18 Danza d los Monts 28 La Call y la Luna Part II: Classical Works Jazz Sonata, Op 17 Lullay for Jack92 Papas9 Th and Variations10 This Pulication, copilation, and ditorial contnt Copyright 2018 Laurn Kisr Music

3 2 SCHIFRIN and HIS MANY WORLDS Introduction This first dition of th solo piano usic of Lalo Schifrin will undoutdly prford, studid, analyzd, rcordd, and lovd Ths works rprsnt th lgacy of a ultifactd phnonon; a coposr who is at as writing azz, fil scors, classical, tangos and folk dancs As Schifrin ovs fro on world to th nxt, svral lnts wav in and out of his piano writing; it is cofortal for th hands of a pianist, its lodis stay in th ind for a long ti, an unrring sns of harony, and th coxity of his rhyths is ovrwhlingly original (who would hav thought that a tun in a tr of / could co so popular) His knowldg of th diffrnt popular dancs fro Argntina, Latin Arica and th USA ar fusd in his hands Schifrin cos on with any worlds, and travls fro Bthovn to Mssian to Charli Parkr to Hollywood without favoritis or discriination, as all of th ar his frinds, whil usically pols apart fro ach othr Jazz pianists will prhaps find this dition challnging, as Schifrin was initially classically traind, thus th grat tchniqu rquird in all ths works Classical pianists will find th Jazz Sonata spcially challnging, as h or sh will nd to co ttr acquaintd with all thos colorful ingrdints that ar part of th azz languag and styl Th Jazz Sonata is a work full of sounds of North Arica, lnts that Schifrin is so at ho with sinc Jazz (and Dizzy Gillspi) rought hi to th Stats as a young an in th 190 s Schifrin ca known for any things, ut this is th first ti w ar in th prsnc of a larg ody of works, spcifically coposd for piano solo, his instrunt of choic whn coposing Each work dals with spcific challngs which th pianists will nd to rsolv to crat an alost prfct rndition For th azz pianists, Schifrin s Jazz Sonata will proaly asir to undrstand, ut prhaps difficult to prfor as it rquirs a astrful classical tchniqu (I do not want to offnd th any grat azz pianists who ar also grat classical pianists, ut I liv that ths two worlds ar vry hard to inhait siultanously if th xprinc is not thr) For thos pianists who hav ad a living prforing tangos vrywhr, th tangos hr ar a it or sophisticatd than th 2-pag tango sht usic so popular for dancing or singing Fro a prsonal standpoint, ust caus I a fro Argntina, it dos not an that I can ay (or danc) tangos prfctly It was a challng for, as y training was classically orintd Tango usic was not vn part of y rprtoir as a young prforr living in Argntina I had to larn it, undrstand it, analyz it, and lov it Schifrin lovd to ay tangos and azz whn h was young, living in Bunos Airs, ut was rproachd y his highly traind, sophisticatd usical parnts and faily who wantd hi to co a classical usician So with this in ind, lt s dlv into his piano usic, in which for th first ti w ar gtting a tast of how Schifrin thinks as a solo pianist, without a syphonic orchstra, or a azz and, or a char group to accopany hi So nots on th usic Working alongsid Schifrin for or than a yar in prparing his first solo piano rcording involvd larning th works, aying th for hi, prforing th, rcording, fixing and rcording again Thn, th final stp, diting his scors to ak sur that his usic is widly known and undrstood It has indd n a ig honor for and a challng that I wlco wholhartdly To nd this Editor s not, I would lik to includ hr a fragnt of an intrviw y critic Michal Phillips of th Chicago Triun: Touring to Vinna on yar with a azz coo accopanying th Vinna Philharonic, Schifrin dcidd to hav a littl fun with a local ournalist Sh askd th coposr Why / for th Mission: Ipossil th His answr, dlivrd with a straight fac, was that th US govrnnt had rcntly found an xtratrrstrial with fiv lgs, and whr th alin ca fro, his spcis was frustratd thy didn t hav th right usic to danc to H told hr h wrot for th cratur with fiv lgs, so h could danc Th story was rprintd vrati y uch of th Vinns prss And today, sowhr in th galaxy, Schifrin s indlil, infctious, trnal dangr th is aying at a wdding or a pro or a rtrospctiv of th coolst ths vr coposd for an arthly ass diu I would lik to think that, soday, Lalo Schifrin s irrsistil piano usic will ayd vrywhr in this galaxy y pianists all ovr th world Mirian Conti, Editor

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6 Part II: Classical Works Th Jazz Sonata (p7) in thr ovnts follows th classical ida of sonata for with odrn adaptations, and nvr convntional Schifrin dscris its first ovnt this way: In Th 1st ovnt thr is th Exposition with a Bridg that lads to th xgsis (usic contaris) Aftr that cos th 2nd th and variations on a 2nd xgsis and Codtta that nds th 1st half of th 1st ovnt Fro th 2nd half on w call it th Dvlopnt, in which all th lnts of th 1st half ar rvisitd with aitud and rlativ frdo At th nd of th Dvlopnt (or R-xposition) cos th nding of th whol ovnt "Coda" Th Sonata was first coposd in 196, and in 2016 h rvisd it cotly for This iposing and iprssiv astrful sonata dands a grat tchniqu In th words of Schifrin: Th thr ovnts of th Jazz Sonata tak, as a point of dpartur, th styl of a usical languag that is xtrly cox Pulic prcption is that azz is vry si, far fro ing th classical usic of Arica Gorg Grshwin, Aaron Coand and Gunthr Schullr all trid to ak xcursions into th azz idio, ut thy didn t fully undrstand how to approach it caus thy wr not azz usicians On th othr hand, Jlly Roll Morton, Louis Arstrong, Duk Ellington, Dizzy Gillspi and John Coltran wr xprts This is th foundation of th Jazz Sonata Prforanc nots for th Jazz Sonata can found on pag 6 Lullay for Jack (p92) is a prfct xa of a astrful crator of lodis that ar always supportd y thos prsonal haronis that dfin hi as a coposr of any styls This swt and short Lullay, coposd for his grandson in 2016, ars all th arks of a gnius and th arks of a sasond atur coposr nostalgic for childhood Siicity is th ost difficult thing to achiv and w s this rflctd furthror on th spars tratnt of th ain ida of Th and Variations on an Original Th Papas (p9) is a favorit of Schifrin s, and in its original for as a char work, won any prizs H dcidd it was ti to rvis it for solo piano Th piano givs this pic th possiility to crat thos colors ndd to portray a static, flat, and ins far-away horizon, whr th pac of lif is haltd for a whil to noy this anitud And th indication of Andant Lontano says it all At M67, Schifrin rings out his innr lodist and a autiful C inor dut in th right hand, as if accopanid y a folk guitar, giving way to M78, whr now an undulating ass and a solo lody roantically and passionatly uilds to th cliax of M97 Tpo 1 (or A sction) at M10, rings us ack to th rality of th flatlands, ut now thr is a nw lnt to th A sction; M11 to M120 hav a ring of a Bach toccata iprovisational pisod, vry aroqu in its sounds and pianistically prfct At M12, lody at lft hand taks ovr for 7 ars, as if sung y a cllo (original pic was writtn for cllist Antonio Lysy), and thn right hand continus its path towards a quit and far-away final Th and Variations (p10) is asd on diffrnt coposrs and styls Whn Schifrin askd what I would lik to hav hi copos, I said that I lovd th ida of Th and Variations, and that I was gtting tird of dissonant/atonal usic I wantd si C aor and si haronis fro tonic to doinant ack to tonic (half oking, of cours) Schifrin took y words sriously and hr it was; a autiful astic C aor th a la Handl Schifrin dcidd to travl through ti and xor ach ra for a rif ont Schifrin said, I xor th possiilitis of travling in ti y aking th th astic and th variations paraphras diffrnt styls fro Mozart (Var 1), Bthovn (Var 2), Bartok (Var 10), Stravinsky (Var 9) and Schifrin W can also har Chopin ts Jazz on Variation 6, a slow tango (Var), an haanra (Var ), Brazilian sounds (Var 8) with clvr rhyths giving th iprssion of haring woodn sticks and drus on th lft hand, and riniscncs of Joi with Villaloos as a lody Var, titld Th in sarch of a Variation, is xactly that

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8 As a young an in his nativ Argntina, Lalo Schifrin rcivd classical training in usic, and also studid law H ca fro a usical faily, and his fathr, Luis Schifrin, was th concrtastr of th Philharonic Orchstra of Bunos Airs at th Tatro Colon H continud his foral usic ducation at th Paris Consrvatory during th arly 190 s Siultanously, h ca a profssional azz pianist, coposr and arrangr, aying and rcording in Europ Whn Schifrin rturnd to Bunos Airs in th id 190 s, h ford his own ig concrt and It was during a prforanc of this and that Dizzy Gillspi hard Schifrin ay and askd hi to co his pianist and arrangr In 198, Schifrin ovd to th Unitd Stats and thus gan a rarkal carr Ed Mirian Conti His usic is a synthsis of traditional and twntith-cntury tchniqus, and his arly lov for azz and rhyth ar strong attriuts of his styl Invocations, Concrto for Doul Bass, Piano Concrtos No 1 and No 2, Pulsations, Tropicos, La Nouvll Orlans, and Rsonancs ar xas of this tndncy to uxtapos univrsal thoughts with a kind of laoratd priitivis In th classical coposition fild, Schifrin has or than 60 works H has writtn or than 100 scors for fils and tlvision Aong th classic scors ar Mission Ipossil, Mannix, Th Fox, Cool Hand Luk, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, Th Cincinnati Kid and Aityvill Horror Rcnt fil scors includ Tango, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour, Bringing Down Th Hous, Th Bridg of n Luis Ry, Aftr th Sunst, and Aoinal Th Piano Music of LALO SCHIFRIN LALO SCHIFRIN is a tru Rnaissanc an As a pianist, coposr and conductor, h is qually at ho conducting a syphony orchstra, prforing at an intrnational azz fstival, scoring a fil or tlvision show, or crating works for th Los Angls Char Orchstra, th London Philharonic and vn Th Sultan of Oan It is Schifrin s aility to switch usical gars which aks hi so uniqu in th usic world As a azz usician h has prford and rcordd with grat prsonalitis such as Dizzy Gillspi, rah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgrald, Stan Gtz, Count Basi, Jon Faddis, Jas Moody, Loui Bllson, and Knny Burrll Schifrin has n arrid to his wif, Donna, for or than 0 yars His thr childrn includ Willia, who is a writr for fils and tlvision; Francs, who is an art dirctor/dsignr; and Ryan, who is a fil writr/dirctor For or inforation on Lalo Schifrin, as visit wwwschifrinco It is truly a oy to prfor Lalo Schifrin s piano usic, and to al to undrstand how h can asily travl fro on gnr to anothr in such a astrful and virtuoso way: fro azz, to tangos, to classical, and all xtrly pianisticw ar oth two Argntins on a ission Mirian Conti KEISER MUSIC Lalo Schifrin, th intrnationally rnownd coposr of classical, fil and tlvision scors, in collaoration with fllow Argntinian pianist Yaaha artist Mirian Conti, producd th ost coprhnsiv rcording of his works for piano solo, including svral world prièrs Th alu's rlas was hraldd y th Consulat Gnral of Argntina in Nw York in Novr of 2017, undr th Auspics of Yaaha Artist Srvics with a rcption in honor of Schifrin's usic This xclusiv pulication aks all th works fro this landark rcording availal to pianists worldwid, and includs a uniqu arrangnt of th faous th to Mission: Ipossil y th coposr hislf Mirian Conti's alu, Lalo Schifrin Piano Works (Grand Piano Rcords#GP776) is availal on Aazon, ituns, Spotify, NaxosDirct, and ArkivMusic S10029 HL S10029 kisrsouthrnusicco $99 US HL EAN 1 Th Piano Music of LALO SCHIFRIN ditd y Mirian Conti Includs Concrt Piano arrangnt of ission: ipossil y th coposr