Teachers Lalo Schifrin and Arturo San Agustín

He had just turned 93, he composed music that was immortalized on the screen, like that of Mission Impossible, and he had even received an Oscar, so he had had a long and full career. But as much as it is a fact of life, the news of Lalo Schifrin's death has caused me a feeling of sadness and nostalgia.

In a previous life, when music lived on vinyl records, I bought a compilation of series theme songs in New York, which included my entire childhood television experience. When theMannix, with that initial burst of percussion and that very elegant jazz piano, I told myself that one day I would make it the theme song for a program, and when in 1994 we createdAny More Questions?the purpose became reality.

One day I asked him if he remembered under what circumstances he had composed.Mannixand he replied: "In a great hurry. The orders were always due yesterday." Schifrin said that film soundtracks were like a letter, but that TV series theme songs were like a telegram, meant to scream, meant to make the viewer stop when they were talking to her. Arturo San Agustín. Once again, a pinprick. You learned how to do interviews just by reading his statements: "Basically, the interview is the receipt." A conversation with him was like entering a world of personal and figurative observations that captured everything. His reports on the woman burned alive by the boys she was sleeping with were like grabbing Barcelona by the lapel and forcing it to react to evil.