In 1964, a French television interviewer asked composer Michel Legrand if writing for film is “sort of like selling your soul.” The occasion was the release that year of director Jacques Demy’s “The ...
Jazz is the best of all nourishments. It feeds the creative spirit like nothing else can. It is a fantastic adventure, an exciting game of giving and taking and exchanging musical ideas. When the ...
When French composer Michel Legrand died Saturday at the age of 86, he was celebrated for many achievements. There were his three Academy Awards, his more than 200 film and TV scores and his romantic ...
French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist Michel Legrand recording with Phil Woods in London, February 17th 1975. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) “He changed the meaning ...
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On Nov. 8, Warner Music/Ghostlight Records is releasing Legrand Affair: Deluxe Edition, which Errico made with the late composer Singer, actress, and writer Melissa Errico is one of the lucky few who ...
Three-time Oscar-winning composer, songwriter and pianist Michel Legrand died Saturday at his home in France. He was 86. The conservatory-trained musician worked across genres but was best known as a ...
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Michel Legrand, a French composer with more than 200 screen credits, notably the jazzy movie operas "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The Young Girls of Rochefort," and whose tunefully romantic music ...
FILE PHOTO: Music composer Michel Legrand attends a panel at the French employer's body MEDEF union summer forum on the campus of the HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, France, ...
Michel Legrand was trained as a classical pianist and composer, but he will always be remembered for such pop hits as "The Windmills of Your Mind." Legrand died Saturday at 86. When French composer ...