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Posted on February 7, 2020December 26, 2020

Oscars 2020: Year of The Cello

Hildur Guðnadóttir performing at the Roundhouse, London.

In listening to several scores to films nominated for Academy Awards in 2020, a particular feature emerges: a prominent cello theme. The instrument has been called on to convey a range of moods and even shaped the plot of at least one film.

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Posted on June 29, 2019July 6, 2019

Michel Legrand: The Easy-Listening Modernist

Michel Legrand at the Festival Internacional de Jazz de San Javier

In 1979 a critic for the New York Times confronted Michel Legrand with the criticism that his popular music was sentimental, “trite and treacly.” The occasion was the premiere of the off-Broadway adaptation of Jacques Demy’s film “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” with Legrand’s sung-dialogue score. 

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