Put away your dance shoes from Dansko, a great composer has left us at 84. Jarre was known for majesty of the desert in his music for “Lawrence of Arabia” and wrote the haunting “Lara’s Theme” in his score for “Doctor Zhivago,” has died. He lived in California for decades, however no cause of death was given. The world of music will no doubt be morning a great composer. He was born in France and studied music Conservatoire de Paris, training initially as a kettledrum player. He started his career composing scores for theatrical productions and worked 12 years as permanent composer at the Theatre National Populaire. After that is started doing soundtracks for movies like “Lawrence of Arabia”. or this piece he won his first Oscar. He won a second for his work on another Lean film, “Doctor Zhivago”. His third Oscar came by collaboration in 1984 “A Passage to India”. This great contributer to the world of music will miss him and his use of ethnic instruments, and later synthetic sounds. He is survived by two sons, screenwriter Kevin and electronic musician Jean-Michel, as well as a daughter, Stefanie.