I Was Born in Love with You, An Evening of Burt Bacharach and Michel Legrand

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Join Marc Deaton and his special guests for our Season Opener as we pay tribute to two great composers of some of your most favorite songs from more than five decades.

Michel Legrand is known as one of the best composers for film with hits like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song The Windmills of your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affairand additional Oscars for Summer of ’42 and Barbra Streisand’s Yentl. He is also known for his jazz works and his art songs in both French and English.

Burt Bacharach is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach’s songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. Considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music, he has an unbelievable list of songs that include Walk on By, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Alfie, I Say a Little Prayer, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Do You Know the Way to San Jose?, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Promises Promises!, Close to You, among many others!

Marc is joined by guest artists Ashley Cotton, Mary McCue, Meera Mennillo, and Ariana Straznicky. Nick Stanford is Music Director and will lead a jazz combo. This very special musical evening will take place at the Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society (SUUS), 297 Boston Post Road in Madison (directions to SUUS).