Remembering Michel Legrand, whose love songs always told a story
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Jan 28, 2019
2 minutes
Michel Legrand loved a good love song.
For this French composer and pianist, who died Saturday in Paris at age 86, romance was an inexhaustible subject in the lush and sentimental music he wrote for movies and for the pop stars who turned many of his songs into standards.
And by romance, I don't mean mere flirtation or infatuation; I mean l'amour of the
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