Michel Legrand Returns to Lincoln Center, Dionne Warwick to Guest Star, 11/21
By: Jessica Lewis Oct. 13, 2009
Following a sold-out Canadian tour, Michel Legrand returns to New York for a special one-night engagement at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center on Saturday, November 21st at 8PM. The multiple Oscar and Grammy-winning pianist and composer will be joined by French singing sensation Mario Pelchat. Five-time Grammy Award winner Dionne Warwick is the special guest star. The trio will be accompanied by a quartet of musicians, including Catherine Michel, the harp soloist at Opera de Paris, for a night of classical film scores by Maestro Legrand, as well as jazz and Hollywood hits, built around the romance and nostalgia of French ‘chanson.'
The multi-talented Michel Legrand, a virtuoso pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer and singer, has been astonished audiences since the 1950s, when his very first album, "I Love Paris," became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. Since then, Legrand has composed over 200 film scores (Yentl, Summer of '42, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Three Musketeers), television scores (Brian's Song, The Ring, Promises to Keep, The Jesse Owens Story, A Woman Called Golda), musicals (Amour, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and recorded well over 100 albums. He has worked with such artists as Miles Davis, Edith Piaf, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Lena Horne, Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, among other. His long-time collaboration with Alan and Marilyn Bergman has resulted in such memorable songs as "Papa, Can You Hear Me?," "The Way He Makes Me Feel," "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?," "What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?" and "The Windmills of Your Mind." His work has garnered him three Oscars for 13 nominations, five Grammys, a BAFTA and Golden Globe, as well as a Tony nomination. His song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair was named one of America's Greatest Movie Songs by the American Film Institute in 2004. Most recently, Legrand released an album with Mario Pelchat to great success around the world.
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