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and American drummer Louis Bellson recorded in 1964 and released on the

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Track listing

''All compositions by Lalo Schifrin'' # "Variations" - 3:19 # "Primitive" - 5:27 # "Explorations" - 5:15 # "Cycles" - 2:15 # "Ostinato" - 6:24 # "Etude for Tympani and Strings" - 5:10 # "Toledano" - 4:45 *Recorded in Los Angeles on February 10 & 1, 1964

Personnel

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* Louis Bellson -

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, log drum, percussion *

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*Alton Hendrickson - guitar *Keith Mitchell -

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*Erno Neufeld, Anatol Kaminsky, David Frisina, Sam Freed, Nathan Kaproff, George Kast, Alex Murray, Marvin Limonick - violin *Sanford Schonbach, Virginia Majewski - viola *Raphael Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin - cello *Dorothy Remsen -

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

*Bobby Helfer - orchestra manager

References

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