Julien (et. al): Just checked www.schifrin.com, not exactly a regular stop for me, and found this: "He was commissioned to write the Grand Finale for an event which took place in Caracalla, Italy, July 7th, 1990, to celebrate the finals of the World Cup Soccer Championship. In this concert, the Three Tenors, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras sang together for the first time. The orchestras of the Rome and Florence opera companies were conducted by Zubin Mehta. The record and videotape of this event have gone on to become the biggest sellers in the history of classical music. Schifrin also was engaged to arrange the sequels for July 1994, also for Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti and Zubin Mehta, which was performed at Dodger Stadium, again on the eve of the World Cup Soccer Championships; the Three Tenors event that was held in July of 1998 in Paris, France, and the latest one for the World Cup Finals in Japan." Considering all the other things LS has done -- see the site -- playing up his associatio with the Three tenors (--And I always thought they were Trane, Newk and Bean --) is like dwelling on Rhoderi Davies' gig backing up Charlotte Church :) Ken Waxman --- Julien Quint <pom@graougraou.com> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2004, at 6:09 AM, Ken Waxman wrote:
And don't forget that Schifrin is one of the few soundtrack composers with major league jazz credentials. He was the pianist in Dizzy Gilelspie's quintet in the early 1960s (preceding Kenny Baron) and did some fine work on LPs such as the big band session Gillespiana on Verve.
But isn't he the musical director for the Three Tenors today? (not-so-amazin-and-maybe-even-wrong factoid)
Julien
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