Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michel Legrand, who died in Paris Saturday at the age of 86, was among the most renowned film composers and songwriters of our ...

In 1964, a French television interviewer asked composer Michel Legrand if writing for film is “sort of like selling your soul.” The occasion was the release that year of director Jacques Demy’s “The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michel Legrand, the French composer who won three Oscars for his songs and film scores, died Saturday at age 86, according to his ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to remember Michel Legrand, a French pianist and prolific composer of film scores and songs. He died Saturday at age 86. Over his career, which spanned ...

Michel Legrand, a French composer with more than 200 screen credits, notably the jazzy movie operas “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and “The Young Girls of Rochefort,” and whose tunefully romantic music ...

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 ...

From "Windmills of Your Mind" to "Summer of '42" to "Papa Can You Hear Me?," here are clips of key moments when the maestro made us swoon. Michel Legrand, who died in Paris Saturday at the age of 86, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French composer and pianist Michel Legrand has died at 86 after a career in which he stood out for soundtracks in screen musicals with Catherine Deneuve and that won him three Oscars ...

From "Windmills of Your Mind" to "Summer of '42" to "Papa Can You Hear Me?," here are clips of key moments when the maestro made us swoon. Michel Legrand, who died in Paris Saturday at the age of 86, ...

Michel Legrand, three-time Oscar winner and composer of such classic film songs as “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “I Will Wait for You,” “You Must Believe in Spring” and “What Are You Doing the Rest of ...

Michel Legrand, composer of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Yentl and The Thomas Crown Affair, died Saturday at the age of 86. Legrand’s death was first reported by Agence France-Presse. The songwriter’s ...