Michel Legrand: The Summer Knows
739 views · Published 1 August 2017 · 2:14 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music
Phillip Sear plays (at a viewer's request) Michel Legrand's famous theme tune to the 1971 movie 'Summer of '42' in an elegantly understated piano arrangement by Frank Booth. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Legrand needs little introduction from me. Born in 1932 he has to be one of the most accomplished of all living French musicians - as pianist, conductor, and triple-Oscar winning composer of music for more than 200 film and TV scores. About the arranger, Frank Booth, I can find little, except for this quotation from the Sunday Times of 22 March, 1915 in an article about his daughter, who founded the British pet insurance company 'Animal Friends': "ELAINE FAIRFAX'S father was a pianist with a love of animals. "He always gave half his meal away to our cats," she recalled about her father Frank Booth, a leading arranger for music publishers in London's Tin Pan Alley and for several bands." The thumbnail shows a detail from the 'Summer of '42' movie poster. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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