Michel Legrand RIP

[Beresford]

This YouTube clip of Legrand, with singers Natalie Dessay and Patricia Petibon, always brings on a big smile -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee00hOVe2UY

[burning dog]

[rauschwerk]

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.

Aaron Copland quipped that every small American town had two things: a ten-cent store and a Nadia Boulanger pupil.

[MickyD]

Aaron Copland quipped that every small American town had two things: a ten-cent store and a Nadia Boulanger pupil.

Love it!

[Lat-Literal]

Love it!

Seconded.

I wonder how she did it (other than living to 92).

Sad news about Michel Legrand who among other things I recall being on television quite a lot almost in a Previnesque reaching the masses way. Less distance there perhaps, given his genre was film but there are not similar memories of, say, Morricone. That album above - "American Piano Music" - I am familiar with the cover but hadn't realised it was Legrand with such small print for his name. Mostly, I recall, Windmills of Your Mind, Summer of '42 etc. He was one of a few at that time - and there are none now - with a genuinely haunting style.