ALLEGRO
MEDIA GROUP EXPANDS LABEL
ROSTER
Aleph Records To Partner
with Allegro
(July 07,
2010 - Portland, OR) Allegro
is delighted to welcome
Aleph Records to the family
of labels they are honored
to represent. Like many
small businesses in America,
Los Angeles-based Aleph
Records is a family affair.
The difference is that the
patriarch of this family
is Lalo Schifrin - the Argentine-born
composer, pianist, and conductor
responsible for some of
the most recognizable film
and television scores in
music history. Aleph Records
was founded by Donna Schifrin,
Lalo's wife and the company's
president, in 1997. Theresa
Eastman
Schifrin, their daughter-in-law,
is the label’s designer,
marketing and sales director.
The label's
name comes from the Louis
Borges short story “El
Aleph,” about a place
in which all points in the
universe converged. Aleph
Records releases music in
three fields: film and television,
jazz, and classical. Highlights
include the five soundtracks
from the Dirty Harry film
series, Bullitt, Cool Hand
Luke, The Cincinnati Kid,
Rush Hour, and Schifrin’s
Gillespiana and Jazz Meets
the Symphony Collection.
Forrest Faubion,
distribution product manager
for Allegro notes, “We
are extremely pleased to
welcome to our roster one
of the great composers and
musicians working today.
Our new partnership with
Aleph Records further illustrates
Allegro's commitment to
quality and expertise!"
He goes on to say “I
am personally especially
looking forward to working
with an artist I have for
so long admired.”
"We are
very excited to partner
with Allegro," said
Donna Schifrin. "They
have a wonderful roster
of labels and their focus
exactly fits the Aleph catalog."
In 2010, The
Allegro Group continues
their reign as one of the
most successful industry
leaders in music & entertainment
distribution. The company’s
ability to introduce some
of the most diverse audio
and video landscapes into
the North American marketplace
leaves an indelible mark
on the industry as a whole.
Founded over
30 years ago, Allegro Media
Group is well established
as one of North America’s
leading independent entertainment
distributors. Highly versed
in the business of independent
music and lifestyle distribution,
Allegro and its growing
business cover a wide spectrum
of audio and video products,
in virtually all genres
and markets, including:
classical, jazz, rock, world,
gift, lifestyle, children’s,
specialty retail and digital
distribution. As a result,
The Allegro Group stands
out as the most diversified
independent music and video
distributor in the North
America.
Allegro Media
Group distributes some of
the most respected independent
labels in the world, including
ZOHO, Winter & Winter,
Spring Hill, Arbors, Summit
Records, Challenge Records,
Buda Musique, Enja Records.
The first
new release that will be
part of the new distribution
deal is the world premiere
recording of Romerías,
a Suite for solo guitar
in nine movements written
by Lalo Schifrin which will
be released on September
14, 2010. The recording
features classical guitarist
Sergio Puccini performing
Romerías along with
pieces by Astor Piazzolla,
Enrique Bevacqua, Alfredo
Rugeles, Leo Brouwer, Salim
Dada, Manuel de Falla, John
Duarte, and Hernán
Navarro. Mr. Schifrin said
about his work: “‘Romerías’
in Spanish means Carnivals
or big parties where there
is a display of popular
arts, food, and drinks.
‘Romerías’
for solo guitar is a Suite
that reflects that feeling
of celebration. It explores
the different possibilities
of this great instrument
within the parameters of
classical, popular, and
folk elements. At the same
time, it also brings out
the various potentialities
of the guitar technique.”
For more information
about these and other Allegro
/ Nail Distribution and
NewSound children and lifestyle
titles, please visit allegromediagroup.com
For more information about
Aleph Records, contact Beth
Krakower,
CineMedia Promotions, 212-533-6864
or beth@cinemediapromotions.com
The Daytona
Beach International Festival
(DBIF), the largest international
and orchestral festival
in Florida, will honor Hollywood
conductor, composer and
pianist Lalo Schifrin with
its first-ever PALM Award.
DBIF created the annual
award program to recognize
an individual or group for
outstanding Professional
Artistic Lifetime Merit
(PALM). Schifrin will be
presented the PALM Award
on the evening of Thursday,
April 30, during the London
Symphony Orchestra Classical
III concert, which Schifrin
will be conducting. For
more information, please
visit www.dbif.com
Aleph Records
To Release The Soundtracks
for Sudden Impact
And SPOOKS,
The Music From Bullitt
to Appear In
Hei$t (March
31, 2008- Los Angeles, CA)
– Aleph Records will release
the soundtrack for
Sudden Impact and
SPOOKS
on May 6.
Sudden Impact
was the fourth film of the
five film “Dirty Harry”
series. Composer Lalo Schifrin
returned to the series,
after composing Dirty Harry
and Magnum Force,
but not the third film The
Enforcer.
Aleph Records has released
the soundtracks for the
first three films. With
only excerpts released on
the first “Dirty Harry”
LP, Sudden Impact
includes the complete score
plus additional bonus tracks
that have been remixed from
the original multi-track
masters.
In addition,
on May 6, Aleph Records
will release the soundtrack
for SPOOKS
via iTunes, a new military
horror series from Devil’s
Due Publishing. SPOOKS
was created and co-written
by Schifrin’s son Ryan.
The comic is a hit and has
sold out within its first
week and all four issues
will be turned into a graphic
novel in July. The music
appears on the website for
the comic (www.spooksthecomic.com).
Lalo previously
scored the film Abominable
for Ryan Schifrin. CODEMASTERS
has licensed tracks from
the film Bullitt,
composed by Lalo Schifrin.
HEI$T™
is an all-new job pullin’,
bank robbin’ action-driving
game set in a gritty San
Francisco, circa 1969.
HEI$T has
gamers taking charge of
a group of renegade criminals
as they rob, steal and shoot
their way throughout the
city, all the while their
sights set on the big score:
taking the San Francisco
Mint. The video game will
be released in the summer
of 2008. Composer Lalo Schifrin
is a true Renaissance man.
As a pianist,
composer and conductor,
he is equally at home conducting
a symphony orchestra, performing
at an international jazz
festival, scoring a film
or television show, or creating
works for the Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra, the London
Philharmonic and even The
Sultan of Oman. He has written
more than 100 scores for
films and television including
the classic scores for Mission:
Impossible,
Mannix,
The Fox, Cool
Hand Luke,
Bullitt,
Dirty Harry,
The Cincinnati
Kid, and The
Amityville Horror.
Schifrin’s
recent film scores include
Tango,
all 3 films from the Rush
Hour trilogy,
Bringing Down
The House,
The Bridge
of San Luis Rey,
After the Sunset,
and Abominable.
To date, Lalo Schifrin has
won four Grammy™ Awards
(with twenty-one nominations),
one Cable ACE Award, and
received six Oscar™ nominations.
Sudden Impact will be available
in stores and via iTunes
on May 6, 2008. SPOOKS
will be available via iTunes
on May 6.
For more information
please contact Beth Krakower,
CineMedia Promotions @ 212.533.6864
or beth@cinemediapromotions.com
