The haunting cascade of notes at the center of both “Danube Incident” and “Sour Times” was played on a Hungarian dulcimer, known as a cimbalom, a classic example of the kind of unique instrumentation ...

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. The haunting cascade of notes at the center of both “Danube Incident” ...

A fellow Argentinian journalist who interviewed the lauded Lalo Schifrin over a span of three decades shares how it was only about "making music, not in winning any Oscars." By Ernesto Lechner “Let me ...

Lalo Schifrin, an Argentine-American pianist and composer-arranger who began as a jazz musician and wound up in Hollywood creating suspenseful soundtracks for popular American films and TV shows, died ...

Lalo Schifrin, the Grammy-winning Argentine-born composer who evoked the ticking, ominous suspense of espionage with his indelible theme to the television series “Mission: Impossible” as well as ...

(AP) – Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s son ...

He was best known for one enduring TV theme, but he had a startlingly diverse career as a composer, arranger and conductor in a wide range of genres. Lalo Schifrin, right, with the saxophonist and ...

Composer Lalo Schifrin, who wrote the theme for “Mission: Impossible,” has died. Schifrin was 93 years old. His wife said her husband died on June 26 of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, The ...