Fifty Years of Film music - conducted (as well as played and SUNG) by its composer. Great Bonus doc too!
French composer Michel Legrand is amazing! The guy writes film scores you know - "A Man and A Woman" may be his most identifiable, but there's "Brian's Song", "Summer of `42" and even Barbra Streisand's film Yentl! But he's also an accomplished JAZZ pianist! And he sings too - but more on that in a minute.
This DVD captures the full, nearly two-hour, concert he did in Paris in 2009. The 79 year-old genius conducted the concert with fifty years of his film music - from his first film scores with French "new wave" directors to the "populist films like the previously mentioned Yentl. There was a full orchestra plus a smaller jazz rhythm section and - at times - the musicians form a "big band". Throughout the performance Legrand conducts and often plays the piano part. On many of the upbeat numbers he improvises. And then - on songs like "Papa Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl he sings. Not well I might say, but the guy wrote the songs so bear with him. The vocals, luckily, are not...
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