Singer, actress, and writer Melissa Errico is one of the lucky few who got to work closely with legendary Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand, famous for some of the most iconic movie scores of all ...

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 ...

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, ...

There are plenty of great songs about racing, but for every track to achieve the stature of “Shut Down” or “Hot Rod Lincoln,” there are dozens -- maybe hundreds -- that history has forgotten. Usually ...

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 ...

On Nov. 8, Warner Music/Ghostlight Records is releasing Legrand Affair: Deluxe Edition, which Errico made with the late composer Singer, actress, and writer Melissa Errico is one of the lucky few who ...

Reporting from Paris — Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the ‘60s romance “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” and ...

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 ...