Music

     Saw Michel Legrand at the Blue Note and a "meet-up" to the pillow fight at Union Square.  Took some photos of the pillow fight and will try to get them on the blog.  Still learning how to do this.  I took the camera to the Blue Note but they don't want you to take pictures with a flash.  Another thing to add to my "to learn" list.  Michel was terrific.  He started with some jazz improv and ended by trying to "kill off" the theme from "Umbrellas of Cherbourg", because, he said, "it is so old, from 1832".  The killing was a 20 minute piano instrumental that was something really special.  His second piece was the first he ever wrote, "What are you doing the rest of your life", which he sang.  He did a classical fugue and  also sang in french "The windmills of your mind".  He has worked with all the Jazz greats.  One of them, Miles Davis, had "disappeared" for years.  Then one day he called him up and said: "froggy", Miles called him froggy, get your f'''ing A'hole over here.  He went, of course.
Michel's father was a composer and conductor and is most famous for composing the musical Irma La Douce.  Michel studied with Nadia Boulanger who also taught Aaron Copland and Philip Glass.  He has won three Academy Awards and a Tony for "Amour".
"I'll awaken what's asleep in your life" he sang and he did.