Topic: Michel Legrand
Jasper Rees meets the soundtrack composer Michel Legrand, who abandoned Hollywood for a more interesting life and at 75 is about to put on his first stage musical. Legrand's previous musicals have been for the screen. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was an unexpected success in 1964. Initially working as an orchestrator, his earliest triumph was I Love Paris, a set of jazz standards which sold seven million copies in two years. Columbia paid Legrand $200 up front. MOREWEB LINKS | IMAGES | SHOP Michel Legrand
