The legendary composer who wrote the Mission: Impossible theme song has passed away at the age of 93.
Lalo Schifrin died inside his Los Angeles home on Thursday from complications with pneumonia, his son, Ryan, confirmed.
He was surrounded by his loved ones.
Schifrin was a jazz pianist and classical conductor and had a remarkable career in music that included working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording with Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan.
His biggest contribution was the instantly recognizable score to television’s Mission: Impossible, which fueled the just-wrapped, decades-spanning feature film franchise led by Tom Cruise.
Schifrin originally wrote a different piece of music for the theme song but series creator Bruce Geller liked another arrangement Schifrin had composed for an action sequence.
‘The producer called me and told me: ‘You’re going to have to write something exciting, almost like a logo, something that will be a signature, and it’s going to start with a fuse,” Schifrin told the AP in 2006.
‘So I did it and there was nothing on the screen. And maybe the fact that I was so free and I had no images to catch, maybe that’s why this thing has become so successful – because I wrote something that came from inside me.’
Lalo Schifrin died inside his Los Angeles home on Thursday from complications with pneumonia , his son, Ryan, confirmed
Schifrin was a jazz pianist and classical conductor and had a remarkable career in music that included working with Dizzy Gillespie and recording with Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan. His biggest contribution was the instantly recognizable score to television’s Mission: Impossible
