Melissa Returns to 54 Below with “Legrand Difference” (RESCHEDULED)

RESCHEDULED due to COVID-19 guidelines. May 2020 ticketholders – stay tuned to Feinstein’s/54 Below for reticketing information. Melissa will make a return to New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below with a brand-new show, Legrand Difference. She’ll sing Michel Legrand’s greatest hits like “Windmills of Your Mind” and “The Summer Knows” with her inimitable silver sound, but she’s […]

Column: The Purist

Standing behind a large movie screen this summer, I watched The Thomas Crown Affair in reverse. I was the curator of The Summer of Michel Legrand, a film festival at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York City devoted to the great French film composer. I made welcome speeches and then slipped backstage to regroup […]

The Extravagance and Genius of Michel Legrand (An Expanded Memoir)

English Edition, expanded from her New York Times memoir published in January 2019 As first published in La Regle Du Jeu I can still hear Michel Legrand’s voice in my head: “Melissa! Hurry! Come!” This was morning at the Music Box Theatre, an early rehearsal during the first previews of the Broadway musical Amour which […]

Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand

I still hear Michel Legrand’s voice in my head: “Melissa! Hurry! Come!” It was morning at the Music Box Theater, an early rehearsal during the first previews of his 2002 Broadway musical “Amour.” It was 10:01 a.m., and we were all moving slowly, nursing coffee cups in the palms of our hands. We had performed […]