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  • CallMePaul
    Full Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 754

    Michel Legrand RIP

    More sad news announced today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47013214

    RIP Michel
  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132

    #2
    He wrote the soundtracks to some of the greatest films ever, winning Oscars and partying with the stars. As he hits Britain, the 86-year-old Frenchman recalls fights with his mother – and benders with Miles Davis



    The sound of my cinema going days. RIP.
    Last edited by doversoul1; 26-01-19, 10:39.

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    • burning dog
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 1418

      #3


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      Opening credit sequence of director Jacques Demy's 1964 film "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg". Musical score by Michel Legrand.

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      • cloughie
        Full Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 21997

        #4
        Great musician, accompanist, arranger and composer. RIP Michel

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        • gradus
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5507

          #5
          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
          Great musician, accompanist, arranger and composer. RIP Michel
          My view too, a very fine song writer and musician.

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 21997

            #6
            Originally posted by gradus View Post
            My view too, a very fine song writer and musician.
            I suspect of the like we’ll not get many more!

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            • ardcarp
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11102

              #7
              Was he the 'Windmills of your mind' guy? A real ear-worm. .

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              • pastoralguy
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7625

                #8
                His musical score for 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' with the impossibly beautiful Catherine Deneauve is a wondrous thing.

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 36861

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                  Was he the 'Windmills of your mind' guy? A real ear-worm. .
                  I prefer the Bonzos version to the original.

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 21997

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                    I prefer the Bonzos version to the original.
                    That were ‘canyons’!

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 36861

                      #11
                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      That were ‘canyons’!
                      Oh, so they were! I was too Don Quix to look it up.

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                      • MickyD
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 4652

                        #12
                        Very sad news indeed, what a fine composer and musician he was.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26347

                          #13
                          Very sad here too. "Les Parapluies..." and "Windmills..." got an airing here this afternoon.

                          And the unparalleled score for "The Go-Between" will be played on a road trip to East Anglia tomorrow.

                          What a versatile genius - the film scores, the jazz, and the classical recordings:






                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 21997

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Very sad here too. "Les Parapluies..." and "Windmills..." got an airing here this afternoon.

                            And the unparalleled score for "The Go-Between" will be played on a road trip to East Anglia tomorrow.

                            What a versatile genius - the film scores, the jazz, and the classical recordings:






                            Well he studied at the Paris Conservertoire and I believe one of his tutors was Nadia Boulanger

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                            • MickyD
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 4652

                              #15
                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              Well he studied at the Paris Conservertoire and I believe one of his tutors was Nadia Boulanger
                              I often get the impression that pretty much everyone was a student of Nadia Boulanger! She certainly had an impressive list of names in her classes.

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