Word: lalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...