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Florencia Raitzin-Legrand is an Argentine-born French pianist who resides in Paris. She has performed with the French National Orchestra and the Amadeus Quartet, and was invited to participate in Sviatoslav Richter's festival at La Grange de Meslay.
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Florencia Raitzin-Legrand is an Argentine-born French pianist who resides in Paris. She has performed with the French National Orchestra and the Amadeus Quartet, and was invited to participate in Sviatoslav Richter's festival at La Grange de Meslay.
Florencia Raitzin-Legrand wrote an autobiography, 'The Tropic Bird', under the name of Serena Leigh Dalban.
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Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983).
María Florencia Labat is an Argentinian former professional female tennis player. She joined the WTA Tour in 1988 and retired in 2000. On 12 September 1994, Labat reached a career-high singles ranking of number 26 in the world.
Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1991 movie of the same name. It was composed by Miles Davis and Michel Legrand.
Floricienta is an Argentine juvenile musical soap opera based on the Cinderella story. It originally aired from 2004 to 2005, but since then it has been broadcast in many countries. Some international channels that have aired Floricienta are Disney Channel, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel (European). It was also available on the Sky UK satellite lineup.
Pianist Jeffrey Grice was born in 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1966, his family moved to Auckland where he attended Sacred Heart College in Glen Innes, counting among his classmates the future founding members of NZ's iconic rock band Split Enz. While studying languages at Waikato University in Hamilton from 1971 to 1972, classical piano became his passion as he began to perform in lunchtime concerts on campus. Waikato University having no music faculty back in the 1970s, he auditioned in 1972 for the music department of the University of Auckland where, from 1973 to 1976, he studied with Janetta McStay and Bryan Sayer, graduating in French and Music. With a Queen Elizabeth Arts Council grant and a French Government scholarship, Grice left New Zealand in October 1976 to further his piano studies in Paris with Yvonne Loriod, obtaining the Licence de Concert at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique in 1978 in the class of Germaine Mounier. Other formative influences came from intensive classes in Israel with Enrique Barenboim from 1979 to 1980, from the coaching of the American pianist and musicologist Charles Rosen and later from the French/Argentine pianist Florencia Raitzin-Legrand.
Lise Christiane Renée-Legrand is a female French wrestler who competed in the Women's Freestyle 63 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez, known by her stage name Mirtha Legrand is an Argentine actress and television presenter. With an 80-year career, Legrand is one of the most recognized entertainment figures in Argentina. Despite having appeared in 36 films and 20 theatrical performances, Legrand is best known for her interview television programme "Almorzando con las estrellas". that first aired in 1968 on Alejandro Romay's channel 9. The show was later renamed "Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand".
Je m'appelle Barbra (1966) is the eighth studio album released by American singer Barbra Streisand. She sings much of the album in French.
Christiane Legrand was a French soprano.
Legrand is a French industrial group historically based in Limoges in the Limousin region.
Napoléon, comte Daru, was a French soldier and politician.
X is the tenth studio album released by the band Royal Hunt on 20 January 2010, on Scarlet Records in Europe and on Marquee/Avalon Records in Japan.
Black Bread is a 2010 Catalan-language Spanish drama film written and directed by Agustí Villaronga. The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements from two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.
The Combat of Korneuburg was a relatively minor rearguard action fought by Austrian VI Korps of the Kaiserlich-königliche Hauptarmee under Johann von Klenau against elements of the French IV Corps of the Armée d'Allemagne, under the command of Claude Legrand. The brief combat ended in favour of the French.
The Combat of Schöngrabern was a relatively minor rearguard action fought by Austrian V Korps and supporting elements of the Kaiserlich-königliche Hauptarmee under Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen against elements of the French IV Corps of the Armée d'Allemagne, under the command of Claude Legrand.
Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand is a French-American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter and keyboardist of the dream pop duo Beach House.
Ugo Legrand is a judoka from France. In 2012, he won bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the -73 kg class. He won his first match against Tomasz Adamiec, and his second against Hussein Hafiz. After losing his quarterfinal again Dex Elmont, he was entered into the repechage. He won his first repechage match against Rasul Boqiev before winning his bronze medal match against Wang Ki-Chun.
La Dueña is a 2012 Argentine miniseries. It is a blockbuster starring Mirtha Legrand, who worked on this series after 46 years of retirement from acting in television.
Xavier Legrand is a French actor, scriptwriter and filmmaker. Legrand was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 2013 film Avant que de tout perdre . His first feature Custody was in competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival and earned Legrand the Silver Lion for Best Director as well as four César Awards.
Alan Bergman and Marilyn Keith Bergman were an American songwriting duo. Married from 1958 until Marilyn's death, together they wrote music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television, film, and stage productions. The Bergmans enjoyed a successful career, honored with four Emmys, three Oscars, and two Grammys. They are in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.