Lalo Schifrin

==Personal life and death==

==Personal life and death==

Schifrin was first married to Sylvia Schor, in Buenos Aires in 1958; they had two children.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/06/27/lalo-schifrin-mission-impossible-dirty-harry-jazz-film/ |title=Lalo Schifrin, versatile composer best known for his thrilling theme for Mission: Impossible |first=Telegraph |last=Obituaries |work=The Telegraph |date=June 27, 2025 |via=www.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=July 2, 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The marriage ended in divorce.<ref name="Sweeting" /> He married Donna née Cockrell in 1971; they had one son. His wife managed his business and record label.<ref name="Sweeting" /><ref name="Burlingame" /> In 2008, he wrote an autobiography, ''Mission Impossible: My Life in Music'',<ref name="Burlingame" /><ref name="Schifrin">{{Cite book |last=Schifrin |first=Lalo |date=June 27, 2008 |title=Mission Impossible |location=Lanham, Md |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5946-3 |page=}}</ref> summarizing:

Schifrin was first married to Sylvia Schor, in Buenos Aires in 1958; they had two children.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/06/27/lalo-schifrin-mission-impossible-dirty-harry-jazz-film/ |title=Lalo Schifrin, versatile composer best known for his thrilling theme for Mission: Impossible |first=Telegraph |last=Obituaries |work=The Telegraph |date=June 27, 2025 |via=www.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=July 2, 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The marriage ended in divorce.<ref name="Sweeting" /> He married Donna née Cockrell in 1971; they had one son. His wife managed his business and record label.<ref name="Sweeting" /><ref name="Burlingame" /> In 2008 he wrote an autobiography, ''Mission Impossible: My Life in Music'',<ref name="Burlingame" /><ref name="Schifrin">{{Cite book |last=Schifrin |first=Lalo |date=June 27, 2008 |title=Mission Impossible |location=Lanham, Md |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5946-3 |page=}}</ref> summarizing:

{{Blockquote|In music, the choices are infinite. The possibilities of sound combinations with the acoustic instruments of a symphony orchestra, a jazz band or a chamber ensemble have not yet been exhausted. What has been done in the field of electronic music so far has not even scratched the surface of a vast continent to be explored.<ref name="Burlingame" />}}

{{Blockquote|In music, the choices are infinite. The possibilities of sound combinations with the acoustic instruments of a symphony orchestra, a jazz band or a chamber ensemble have not yet been exhausted. What has been done in the field of electronic music so far has not even scratched the surface of a vast continent to be explored.<ref name="Burlingame" />}}