''Rock Requiem'' (subtitled ''For the Dead in the Southeast Asia War'') is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor
Lalo Schifrin
Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Music of Latin America, Lati ...
recorded in 1971 and released on the
Verve label.
[Payne, D]
Lalo Schifrin discography
accessed March 19, 2012[Verve Records catalog](_blank)
accessed March 19, 2012
Track listing
''All compositions by Lalo Schifrin''
# "The Procession" - 4:18
# "Introit" - 2:57
# "Kyrie Eleison" - 4:47
# "Gradual" - 3:23
# "Tract" - 2:40
# "Offertory Verse" - 3:27
# "Sanctus Benedictus" - 3:40
# "Agnus Dei" - 4:20
# "Final Prayer" - 6:00
*Recorded in Hollywood, California on May 17 (tracks 2 & 7), May 18 (tracks 1, 5 & 8) and May 19 (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 9), 1971
Personnel
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Lalo Schifrin
Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Music of Latin America, Lati ...
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arranger
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conductor
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Bud Brisbois
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Career
Brisbois was born in Edina, Minnesota and began studying the tr ...
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Buddy Childers
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Biograph ...
, Ray Triscari -
trumpet
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Milt Bernhart, Lew McCreary, Richard Noel, James Henderson, Ken Shroyer -
trombone
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*David Duke, Bill Hinshaw, George Price, Henry Sigismonti -
French horn
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Roger Bobo, John Johnson -
tuba
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Tom Scott -
flute
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saxophone
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*John Ellis, William Criss -
oboe
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*Donald Christlieb, Jack Marsh -
bassoon
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Larry Muhoberac
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Muhoberac is widely known a ...
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piano
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Larry Knechtel
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Mike Melvoin
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organ
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*Dennis Budimer,
Howard Roberts
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Early life
Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 — a ...
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Louis Shelton
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Biography
During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s Shelton was a session musician working in recording studios around Hollywood. Among his more notable session wor ...
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guitar
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Max Bennett -
bass
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Ronald Tutt -
drums
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Larry Bunker -
tympani
*King Errison -
congas
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Sandra Crouch -
tambourine
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Joe Porcaro
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Biography Personal life
The Porcaro family is, on the paternal side, originally from San Luca, an Aspromonte village in the province of Reggio Calabria. Joe ...
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Emil Richards
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Biography Musician
Richards began playing the xylophone aged six. In High School, he performed with the ...
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percussion
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*Benjamin Barrett - orchestra manager
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Alexander Saint Charles -
voice
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The Mike Curb Congregation -
chorus
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References
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1971 albums
Verve Records albums
Lalo Schifrin albums
Albums conducted by Lalo Schifrin
Albums arranged by Lalo Schifrin