![]() ![]() ![]() Born in Halle, he spent his early career shuttling between Hamburg, Hanover, Düsseldorf, Florence, Rome, and Venice, before settling more or less in London. It seems only fitting that someone equally comfortable with the London Philharmonic or an international jazz festival, as at home in Buenos Aires as he is in Los Angeles, should be surrounded on tonight’s program by his fellow cosmopolitans.Īlthough George Frideric Handel’s English was notoriously poor, he had French, Italian, and his native German to fall back on. It was an invitation from Dizzy Gillespie that brought him to the United States, where he also turned his talents to film and television scores and conducting. Raised in Argentina, where he returned in the 1950s to lead his own big band, he was educated at the highly traditional Paris Conservatory before setting out on his career as a jazz pianist and arranger, performing and recording all over Europe. Lalo Schifrin is a border-crossing musician in several senses. ![]()
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