Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (1932-2019) was one of the most important names in contemporary music. In 1965, he received three Academy Award nominations for his score adaptation and the song “I Will Wait For You” from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; he was subesquently nominated thirteen times and won three Oscars. He received his first Oscar in 1968 for Best Song, “The Windmills of Your Mind” from The Thomas Crown Affair; his second Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score for Summer of ’42 and his third came in 1984 for Best Original Song Score for Barbra Streisand’s movie Yentl, called by Time Magazine “the most romantic, coherent and sophisticated original movie score since Gigi a quarter-century ago.”