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Tiomkin, 76, is perhaps the best-known practitioner of an exacting, lucrative profession: writing music for movies and television. There are no rules for capturing a visual image, an emotion or a color in sound. "I once taught a U.C.L.A. course on composing for TV," remembers Lalo Schifrin, 40, composer of the Mission: Impossible theme. "I asked my students to write the sound of the color orange. Every response was different, and each was equally correct...
Rock Requiem, by Lalo Schifrin (Verve, $5.98). An adept, well-intended tribute to the victims of Viet Nam, unfortunately lacking the snap and originality that Schifrin brings to his commercial Hollywood scores (Mission: Impossible, Mannix...
Harry Guardino is appropriately harried as Eastwood's superior, and Andy Robinson, who plays the killer, is truly remarkable. The script is suitably hard boiled, and there is an excellent, eerie jazz score by Lalo Schifrin. They all help Siegel to make Dirty Harry the kind of movie that brightens up Hollywood's tarnished name...
Golf Balls. A case in point is The Fox, in which Schifrin used a lone flute with a sad, fragile melody to frame the film's lesbian theme against its bleak, Canadian country background. He can make points just as effectively with unusual sounds and effects. For Hell in the Pacific, he wrote mostly in a serialistic orchestral style, but at one point bounced golf balls on the strings of a piano to underline the irrational hatred between the film's antagonists, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. In the recent Che!, he suggested the primitiveness of the Bolivian...
...Part of Schifrin's versatility stems from his parents' background. His grandfather had traveled from his native Russia to Amsterdam, intending to catch the first ship to the U.S. The only boat leaving immediately was bound for Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster...