Le Theatre de Arts A 1,200-seat theater, presenting the crèème de la crèème of
international performing artists.

Oct 07 - Oct 09 Michel Legrand & Liane Foly

The most remarkable musical link between Europe and America is the composer, arranger, pianist, conductor and singer Michel Legrand. His film music, chansons and songs are as famous in Paris as they are in Hollywood. He has worked together with famous artists from the jazz and pop music world and was once called the most widely played French composer after Ravel.

Michel Legrand was born in 1932 as the son of orchestra leader Raymond Legrand. At the age of eleven he went to study at the Paris Academy of Music, where he did his specialisation under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger. This influential music educationist became famous for her disciplined yet modernist views on composing. Apart from Legrand she also taught pioneering American composers such as Aaron Copland (tutor to Leonard Bernstein) and Philip Glass.

In addition to this classical background Legrand is also active in jazz. In the early fifties he was one of the first Europeans to work together with the legendary jazz innovators Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz and Bill Evans.
"Jazz influenced my life because I grew up with it. I see jazz as one of the most important musical developments of this century. It has become part of my culture, I play jazz as if it were my language.

Improvising keeps your fingers and mind supple and young," according to the 65 year old Legrand.




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Mark
Moderator - Entertainment
mark@talkvegas.com

The musical "Notre Dame De Paris" will premiere at Paris on January 22, 2000. Tickets are now on sale at both the Paris Las Vegas and Bally’s Las Vegas box offices at $69.50 including tax (877-374-7469). Showtimes are 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Tuesday - Saturday. Dark Sundays and Mondays.

Notre Dame De Paris is a 21st century pop-rock adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic French romance, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Since its opening in Paris less than a year ago, its story, music and unique acrobatic choreography have helped Notre Dame De Paris become the most successful musical spectacle in French history, playing to sold-out audiences throughout Europe and Canada and selling more than 7,000,000 albums and singles in France, as well as Canada, Switzerland, and Belgium.

Mark and Veronica, this sounds like one we will really want to see next year. Las Vegas entertainment keeps getting better and better.


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John
Moderator Dining Forum
john@talkvegas.com