"As a mother of three now, the stage is more relaxing than life." - Melissa Errico

https://www.livingtheclassicallife.com/ https://www.sondheimsublime.com https://www.legrandaffairdeluxe.com https://youtu.be/X3X88VmAFMQ Living the Classical Life is excited to offer something completely different: our first non-classical guest. We filmed Tony Award-nominee Melissa Errico--a celebrated Broadway singer praised by The Wall Street Journal for her benchmark work in the music of Stephen Sondheim--in conversation with her father, Dr. Michael Errico, a surgeon and classically-trained pianist. Melissa performs the last song of the late French legend Michel Legrand, and Sondheim’s “Not While I’m Around” for our cameras, discusses the classical roots of her musical passions and the music she sings, her love of art, growing older within a demanding industry, being a mother and the balance of life. Title card 1: Melissa Errico's latest album Sondheim Sublime was recently released to critical acclaim, with The Wall Street Journal calling it “The best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.” Title card 2: In 2019, Melissa co-starred in a musical tribute to the late Michel Legrand in Paris at Le Grand Rex, and performed at a Legrand tribute in London at Royal Festival Hall. Title card 3: Warner Music recently released a Deluxe Edition of her beloved symphonic album Legrand Affair which she made with Legrand. The special release includes never-before-heard demos with Michel on piano, and the final song he wrote with Alan & Marilyn Bergman before his passing. Title card 4: In this unusual episode, we asked Dr. Errico and his daughter Melissa to do the "work" for us...