Today, a concert conducted by world famous French-Armenianmusical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist Michel Legrand will take place in Yerevan. Also performing will be Mr. Legrand’s wife, harpist Katrina Michelle and daughter Kristina Legrand, a singer. The three-time Academy Award winning compose was born in Paris in 1932. He has penned over two hundred film scores and has issuesd over one hundred albums, many Grammy winners. "The only thing I wanted to do in life was music. When I was young, I was home alone all day because my poor mother had to work. Fortunately, there was an old piano, and this piano was my only friend. I'd play all day long, out of boredom. I'd listen to a melody on the radio and try to find it, try to find the chords. Because music came very quickly to me, I felt it was my world," Mr. Legrand has said Mr. Legrand traces his Armenian roots to his mother’s father who barely escaped the 1915 Genocide, fleeing to France. The composer has described his grandfather as a "real" Armenian; full of emotion and generous. "When I and my sister first visited Armenia we found some long lost relatives during the week we stayed in Yerevan. It was an amazing experience; to actually touch your roots. I really had a ball playing with the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra. It felt as if I was playing with mu cousins, if not my brothers," Mr. Legrand recounts. He has worked with Maurice Chevalier, Miles Davis, Kiri Te Kanawa, Edith Piaf, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Aretha Franklin, Jack Jones, James Galway, Ray Charles, Arturo Sandoval, Lena Horne, and Barbra Streisand, to name just a few. His songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Cleo Laine, Nina Simone, Henry Mancini, Tony Bennett, and Rosemary Clooney, among many others. Mr. Legrand along with Jacques Demy produced the movie The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 1963. It was the first film musical that was entirely sung — no one had ever done that before. "Looking for the money to make it was another big adventure — it took a year. We were playing it almost every day for every possible producer in Paris, and the only way to do that was to sing the score," the composer remembers. The movie captured the hearts and minds of moviegoers the world over. "I don't write at the piano. I write in silence at the table. With an instrument you only have ten fingers, but in your imagination you have infinity. I hear the music in the silence. For examinations at the Conservatory, we were in a room without a piano, so we had to compose in the silence. You have to hear what you write, like reading a book. I think synthesizers and all of those machines are for people who can't hear the silence!" Mr. Legrand confesses.