Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
TRH Season Ends With Marguerite’s Early ClosureThe Theatre Royal Haymarket’s ambitious West End venture - a year-long season of productions helmed by a single director under the theatre’s own commercial flag - will end in disappointment next month, with the closure seven weeks early of its final offering, the world premiere of Michel Legrand’s musical - raising doubts about the viability...
So anyway, (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Well a bit of disappointment right from the off tonight, as one of the main reasons I'd booked for Michel Legrand's new musical Marguerite was to see Julian Ovenden, and we got his understudy tonight. With the exception of some painful high notes Lincoln Stone did very well as Artaud, in terms of his singing in any case; as far as looks and sex appeal went, it was hard to buy Marguerite...
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
"Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes on it's face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind" Michel Legrand I awoke this morning with these lyrics circling in my head; so not so surprisingly,I start thinking about all the circles that affect our lives. We live on the third rock for the sun,...
Change & Stuff (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
“Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes on it’s faceAnd the world is like an appleWhirling silently in spaceLike the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind” Michel Legrand I awoke this morning with these lyrics circling in my head; so not so surprisingly,I start thinking about all the circles that [...]
MacDailyNews (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Benny Anderson, Charles Aznavour, Pedro Almodovar, James Blunt, Miguel Bose, Patrick Doyle, Bryan Ferry, Robin Gibb, David Gilmour, Julio Iglesias, Maurice Jarre, Mark Knopfler, Michel Legrand, Paco de Lucia, Sir Paul McCartney...
Ambival.net (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Grr. The recording of this cut off just a little before the end but I think I got the idea … I’m not too great at finding things to say about films like this anyway. What I do know, what matters, is that I kinda liked it and would certainly (especially since I missed the end lol) watch it again. Michel Legrand’s music is really gorgeous.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... musician with leading names including Herbie Hancock, Celine Dion, Ringo Starr, Hubert Laws, Michel Legrand and Barry Manilow.In the mid-1990s, Carpenter joined drummer Erskine and saxophonist Bob Sheppard to form the Santa Monica-based Lounge Art Ensemble and performed frequently in venues around Southern California. The group took existing jazz standards, put new melodies on top...
