"Lalo Schifrin Boris Claudio ""Lalo"" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-born American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, including the """", ""Bullitt"" and ""Enter the Dragon"". He has received five Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations. Associated with the jazz music genre, Schifrin is also noted for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the ""Dirty Harry"" films. Schifrin was born in Buenos Aires, to a Jewish family. His father, Luis Schifrin, led the second violin section"
"was used on the soundtrack to the hit movie ""Dirty Dancing"" in 1987, and his earlier albums became collectors' items. He died at the age of 76, from injuries he sustained when he was hit by a car while crossing a street in Manhattan. Lou Perez (musician) Lou Pérez (June 21, 1928 – May 27, 2005) was an American flautist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was one of the most influential and popular ""charanga"" musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, and his music was used in the film ""Dirty Dancing"". He was born in New York City, to parents from"
"with twenty-two nominations, one Cable ACE Award, one Emmy Award, and received six Academy Award nominations. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2016, it was announced that his """" theme will be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. The Argentine composer received an honorary Oscar in November 2018, in recognition of his successful career, the Hollywood Academy announced in a press release. Lalo Schifrin Boris Claudio ""Lalo"" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-born American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores"
"Lou Perez (musician) Lou Pérez (June 21, 1928 – May 27, 2005) was an American flautist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was one of the most influential and popular ""charanga"" musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, and his music was used in the film ""Dirty Dancing"". He was born in New York City, to parents from Puerto Rico and Cuba. At the age of four, he moved with his father to Manzanillo, Cuba, and then to Havana, returning to New York when he was nine years old. He studied music, first playing the bass before moving to the saxophone, flute,"
"Hugo Montenegro Hugo Mario Montenegro (September 2, 1925 – February 6, 1981) was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best known work is derived from interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of Ennio Morricone's main theme from the 1966 film ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". He composed the musical score for the 1969 Western ""Charro!"" which starred Elvis Presley. Montenegro was born in New York City in 1925. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years, mostly as an arranger for the Newport Naval Base band in Newport,"
"Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola ""Henry"" Mancini (; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme and soundtrack for the ""Peter Gunn"" television series as well as the music for ""The Pink Panther"" film series (""The Pink Panther Theme"") and ""Moon River"" from ""Breakfast"
"Artie Kane Artie Kane (born Aaron Cohen; April 14, 1929) is an American pianist, film score composer, and conductor with a career spanning over six decades. As a pianist in Hollywood studios, Kane worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, John Williams, and Quincy Jones. He composed the music for over 250 television shows. Some of his works for television include ""Wonder Woman"", ""Vegas"", Hotel, ""Dynasty"", ""Matlock"", ""A Question of Guilt"", ""Man Against the Mob"". Kane also composed the film scores for five motion pictures including ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"", ""Eyes of Laura Mars"", ""Night of the Juggler"","
"scores. His success with jazz fusion inspired others, like fellow bandoneónist Dino Saluzzi, guitarist Lito Epumer and alto sax man Bernardo Baraj. Later in the 1970s and through the 1990s, drummer Pocho Lapouble became well known for his jazz trio and film scores. Argentine jazz saxophonists have also become prominent in their genre. Alto saxophonist Andrés Boiarsky, who emerged in 1986 performing the film score for ""Hombre mirando al sudeste"" (""Man Facing Southeast""), records extensively to this day, collaborating with latin jazz greats like Paquito D'Rivera and Claudio Roditi. Carlos Franzetti's work and arrangements for the 1992 feature film, ""The"
"Phil Woods, Lila Downs, Donald Harrison, Conrad Herwig, Giovanni Hidalgo, Gregory Tardy, Mario Rivera, Boris Kozlov, Rubén Rodríguez, Luques Curtis, Robby Ameen, Dafnis Prieto, Pedro Martínez, Johnny Rivero, Edsel Gómez, Yosvany Terry. In 2007, the recording was awarded a Grammy as the best Latin Jazz Recording. Palmieri returned to the studio to record three songs for the soundtrack to ""Doin' it in the Park: Pickup Basketball NYC"". The documentary, co-directed by Bobbito García and Kevin Couliau, explores the relationship between NYC playgrounds, basketball, arts and culture. Eddie Palmieri Eduardo ""Eddie"" Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is a Grammy Award-winning pianist,"
"Rodrigo Ratier Rodrigo Sebastian Ratier (born May 21, 1969) is an Argentine composer, arranger, conductor and pianist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has developed his career as an arranger and a performer in the area of the new Argentine tango, jazz, Latin jazz and classical contemporary music. At 6 years old he took his first piano lessons. From 1981, his musical education under Roberto Lara (guitar), Haydée Schvartz (piano) and Ani Grunwald (music theory) be continued. At the same time he studied at the “Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla"" and the “Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven"" conservatories in Buenos Aires. During the"
"Alessandro Alessandroni Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer. He played multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion and piano, and composed more than 40 film scores and countless library music. Alessandroni collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio"
"""Titanic"", ""A Beautiful Mind"", and the first three films of the Harry Potter franchise. The piano in the opening and closing scenes of ""Forrest Gump"", which features a feather floating in the wind, was played by Randy Kerber. He has been an orchestrator on over 50 films, including work with Academy Award winner James Horner. He worked with Eric Clapton as keyboardist, orchestrator, and conductor on the film ""Rush"" - playing on the Grammy Award-winning song ""Tears in Heaven"". During his career, Randy Kerber has worked with a wide range of artists such as Michael Jackson, Paul Anka, Leonard Cohen,"
"Cerati, Los Estelares, Fabiana Cantilo, Ulises Butron, Jorge Drexler, Los 7 Delfines, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Ezequiel Borra & Mussa Phelps, to name a few. He composed the soundtrack for over 15 movies which participated in the most important film festivals in the world. He collaborated with Gustavo Santaolalla in 21 Grams & Biutiful, films directed by Alejandro González Iñarritu. He's performed live at festivals like Sonar, Netmage, Barcelona Forum & Multiplicidade. <br> He travels the world with his guitar, he collects instruments from each of the places he visits & he counts the days remaining before he can return"
"orchestral pieces. The hallmark of his music is the predominance of elements of the Argentine and Latin American folk music, as well as the Argentine tango and Uruguayan Candombe. Rodrigo Ratier Rodrigo Sebastian Ratier (born May 21, 1969) is an Argentine composer, arranger, conductor and pianist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has developed his career as an arranger and a performer in the area of the new Argentine tango, jazz, Latin jazz and classical contemporary music. At 6 years old he took his first piano lessons. From 1981, his musical education under Roberto Lara (guitar), Haydée Schvartz (piano) and Ani"
"are victims of this moment. That was the most important thing he told me. The film and the music show the more human side."" He received his third Oscar nomination for the latter film. Iglesias was the brother-in-law of the late Spanish sculptor, Juan Muñoz. Alberto Iglesias Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi (born San Sebastián, 21 October 1955) is a Spanish composer. He has written the music for several Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar and Julio Medem. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the films ""The Constant Gardener"" (2005), ""The Kite Runner"" (2007) and again"
"Ludovico Einaudi Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (; born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music. Einaudi composed the scores for a number of films and trailers, including ""This Is England"", ""The Intouchables"" and ""I'm Still Here"", the TV miniseries ""Doctor Zhivago"", and ""Acquario"" in 1996, for which he won the Grolla d'oro for best soundtrack. He has also released a number of solo albums of piano and orchestra,"
"James Newton Howard James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations. His film scores include ""Pretty Woman"" (1990), ""Grand Canyon"" (1991), ""The Fugitive"" (1993), ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1997), ""Dinosaur"" (2000), """" (2001), ""Treasure Planet"" (2002), ""King Kong"" (2005), ""Batman Begins"" (2005), ""Blood Diamond"" (2006), ""The Dark Knight"" (2008), ""The Bourne Legacy"" (2012), ""The Hunger Games"" series (2012–2015) and ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" (2016). He has collaborated with directors M."
"1980s as a member of the Viuda e hijas de Roque Enroll (English: ""Widow and Daughters of Roque Enroll""). The sound of his harmonica was captured in the song ""Milonga Triste"" included in the film ""The Tango Lesson"", directed by Sally Potter. More recently it was heard as background music in the 2006 Austrian film ""The Counterfeiters"" (2008 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film ). The Argentine documentary film ""A los cuatro vientos"" (Spanish: ""To the four winds"") premiered in 2007. The film, deeply musical, is a homage to Hugo Díaz and includes many of his interpretations. Victor"
"José Iturbi José Iturbi Báguena (28 November 189528 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor, pianist and harpsichordist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the musicals, ""Thousands Cheer"" (1943), ""Music for Millions"" (1944), ""Anchors Aweigh"" (1945), ""That Midnight Kiss"" (1949), and ""Three Daring Daughters"" (1948), his only leading role. Born in Valencia, Spain, Iturbi showed a talent for classical music at an early age. While young, he began musical studies in his native Valencia. He later moved to Paris in order to proceed with his studies with Victor Staub at the Paris conservatory on"
"Pretto, at the Cine Color studios. The mix was made in the Dolby room of Tres Sonidos, studio where the sound director Germán Acevedo worked closely with Gerardo Kalmar, renowned designer and sound mixer. The National Symphony Orchestra of Paraguay (OSN), with 71 musicians under the special direction of Sergio Cuquejo, recorded the original soundtrack composed of 36 tracks created by Derlis A. González. In the musicalization also collaborated the Band of Musicians of the National Police, the guitarist Berta Rojas, nominated three times to the Latin Grammy awards; Patrick Altamirano, Mauricio Rodas, René Ayala, and Luis Chaparro. The film"
"Michael McCarthy (choirmaster) Michael McCarthy is Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral. Previously, he was the founding director of the London Oratory School Schola at the London Oratory in London. In addition to liturgical duties, the Schola recorded for the film scores of ""Sleepy Hollow"", ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy, and the Harry Potter series. McCarthy also worked with The Sixteen, the Gabrieli Consort, The Cardinall's Musick and the Monteverdi Choir. As a composer/arranger, his music was featured at the funeral of Ronald Reagan, the service for the second inauguration of George W. Bush, and the funeral"
"such as ""Caminito de Gloria"" (1939) with Luis César Amadori, and ""La Verdadera victoria"" (1944) with Carlos F. Borcosque. Mario Maurano Mario Maurano (6 August 1905 - 27 December 1974) was an Argentine film score composer and pianist, best remembered for his tangos. He was especially known for his orchestral work supporting starlet Libertad Lamarque, with songs including ""Te quiero"" (1946) and many more. He was a frequent collaborator with director Luis Moglia Barth in the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, and was particularly prolific in the late 1930s and 1940s, composing for films such as ""Twelve Women"" (1939), ""Confesión"""
"in 1944. Similarly, Argentinian star Osvaldo Ardiles' character, Carlos Rey, isn't identified as being from any particular country; as Argentina were for most part neutral during the war, though, it is generally thought that Rey was from either Mexico or Costa Rica. Nearly all of the film's music score borrows heavily from the first and last movements of Dmitri Shostakovich's ""Leningrad Symphony,"" particularly the march theme of the first movement, which is almost quoted verbatim, a practice which the composer Bill Conti would later employ in ""The Right Stuff"" with Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 has always been"
"Yours... The Man's Mine"" (1969), ""Lady Frankenstein"" (1971), ""The Devil's Nightmare"" (1971), ""The Mad Butcher"" (1971), ""Seven Hours of Violence"" (1973), ""Poker in Bed"" (1974), ""White Fang and the Hunter"" (1975), ""Blood and Bullets"" (1976), ""L'adolescente"" (1976), ""La professoressa di scienze naturali"" (1976), ""The Opening of Misty Beethoven"" (1976), ""Women's Camp 119"" (1977), ""Killer Nun"" (1978), ""L'imbranato"" (1979), and ""Trinity Goes East"" (1998). Alessandro Alessandroni Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer. He played multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion and piano, and composed more than 40 film scores"
"call from Hollywood's Paramount music director Boris Morros asking whether he and Wesley could compose a rhapsody for the climax of the film ""Carnegie Hall"". Bernardo Segall (1911-1993), a Brazilian classical pianist and friend of Mischa's, had established a career in Hollywood films; most likely it was he who referred Morros to the brothers. The rhapsody was to be performed by the New York Philharmonic, with Harry James as trumpet soloist. The catch was that the film was already in production and the music was needed within three days. Somehow, the brothers pulled that off. In the film, during ""The"
"ceremony at the Guitar Center WALK OF FAME in Hollywood. Michel Rubini Michel Rubini (born December 3, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American musician and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks. He is a professional classical pianist since early childhood. During the 1960s and 1970s, Rubini worked on tours, with such stars as Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Sonny and Cher and Barbra Streisand. Rubini was producer, conductor and arranger for Motown Records. He was one of the most sought-after Los Angeles session players during the 1960s and 1970s, performing on albums by"
"Don L. Harper Don Loren Harper is a Los Angeles-based film composer, songwriter, conductor, and arranger whose credits include films such as ""The Guardian"", ""National Treasure"", ""Training Day"", ""Armageddon"", ""The Rock"", ""Twister"", ""Broken Arrow"", ""Assassins"", and ""Speed"". Harper composed and conducted the music for Disney's direct-to-video releases ""The Lion King 1½"", ""Tarzan & Jane"", and """". He also created the scores for the television series' ""The Magnificent Seven"" and ""The Twilight Zone"", and the TV movie ""Houdini"". Harper's first CD, ""Dream and Variations"", is a hybrid of jazz, Americana, rock, spirituals, blues, and bluegrass. It is a sweeping assemblage of"
"Anthony Marinelli Anthony Marinelli (born March 19, 1959) is a classically trained American pianist, musician, composer and conductor. In his early career, he composed and performed accompaniment on the synthesizer for albums including Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"" (1983). Marinelli has also recorded with Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins, Herb Alpert, Supertramp, The Crystal Method, Billy Childs and James Brown. Marinelli was a contributor in the production of Quincy Jones' soundtrack for Steven Spielberg's ""The Color Purple"" (1985) and composed for ""Young Guns"" (1988), ""Graveyard Shift"" (1990), ""Leaving Las Vegas"" (1996), and ""Internal Affairs"" (2000). Excluding episodic-television and commercials, Marinelli's filmography contains over"
"with very old technology,"" replied Carpenter. ""It was very difficult to get the sounds, and it took very long to get something simple."" Carpenter made roughly three to five separate pieces of music and edited them to the film as appropriate. The main title theme, partially inspired by both Lalo Schifrin's score to ""Dirty Harry"" and Led Zeppelin's ""Immigrant Song"", is composed of a pop synthesizer riff with a drum machine underneath that ""builds only in texture, but not thematically,"" according to David Burnand and Miguel Mera. A held, high synthesizer note, with no other changes except inner frequency modulations,"
"later recorded for BBC Radio 3 by the Galliard Ensemble Wind Quintet, with Lucy Wakeford (harp) and Colin Currie (marimba). Among the films he has acted in: ""Velvet Goldmine"" (Todd Haynes – 1998), ""Mauvais Esprit"" (Patrick Alessandrin – 2003), ""The Feast of the Goat"" (Luis Llosa – 2005), ""Goya's Ghosts"" (Milos Forman – 2006), """" (made for TV, Giacomo Battiato – 2006) and ""The Promise"", (Terry George – 2016). Carlos Miranda Luis Carlos Miranda Cordal (born Santiago, Chile, 17 July 1945), also known as Carlos Miranda is a Spanish composer, pianist, conductor and actor. He was born in Chile, where"
"Fernando Otero Fernando Otero (born 1 May 1972) is a Grammy-award-winning Argentine pianist, vocalist, and composer. His first contact with music was receiving vocal lessons from his mother Elsa Marval, an internationally acclaimed singer and actress. He started taking piano lessons at five. He also studied the guitar, drums, accordion, and melodica, instruments he plays occasionally. A classically trained and virtuoso pianist, Otero studied classical music since childhood. He has since developed his own style which has elements of jazz, tango, and contemporary classical music. Otero found his voice as writer, musician and bandleader when, at the urging of one"
"Award for the score to the movie ""Deseada"" (1951). Hernández Moncada was also a teacher and was appointed Principal to the National School of Music. He published several texts including an autobiography and bibliographical sketches of his friends Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas. He was highly regarded by his peers, including artists like Dimitris Mitropoulos, who conducted his First Symphony. Piano Duos Chamber Music Orchestra Choral Music Opera Ballets Film scores Eduardo Hernández Moncada Eduardo Hernández Moncada (September 24, 1899 – December 31, 1995) was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of"
"the music composition of folk inspiration on Paraguayan rhythms. His work, of great value, stands out for the popular feeling understanding of the country man, as well as for the sensitivity of the melodic and harmonic treatment, which for the Master, according to his own saying, was “ a musical honor matter “. He was married to Fidelina Fleitas (Doña Fide), all of his children followed his passion for music: Oscar, director and orchestra fixing, well known pianist and composer was internationally recognized by his work in the Argentinian capital; Aníbal, a music critic and Mauricio(h) (Pinchi), noted guitarist, composer"