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11 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Feb 2004
on Pennyface Productions (same as artist)
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:15 Once Upon a Summertime lyrics BUY MP3 05:15 Once Upon a Summertime lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:15 Once Upon a Summertime
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:17 One At a Time lyrics BUY MP3 03:17 One At a Time lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:17 One At a Time
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:47 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? lyrics BUY MP3 03:47 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:47 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:03 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ( Medley) lyrics BUY MP3 08:03 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ( Medley) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:03 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ( Medley)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:22 Summer Me, Winter Me lyrics BUY MP3 04:22 Summer Me, Winter Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:22 Summer Me, Winter Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:53 How Do You Keep the Music Playing lyrics BUY MP3 02:53 How Do You Keep the Music Playing lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:53 How Do You Keep the Music Playing
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:29 Happy lyrics BUY MP3 02:29 Happy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:29 Happy
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:21 After the Rain lyrics BUY MP3 03:21 After the Rain lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:21 After the Rain
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:38 The Years of My Youth lyrics BUY MP3 02:38 The Years of My Youth lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:38 The Years of My Youth
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Cabaret classics of French composer Michel Legrand in French and English sung in a rich, dramatic mezzo-soprano, accompanied by piano and cello.
Bio / Background
Claudia Beechman began singing in coffeehouses in the Philadelphia area at age fifteen, accompanying herself on guitar . After college, she went to Paris, where she studied acting at the Theatre Ecole Tania Balachova and fell in love with French popular music.
She learned the guitar accompaniment to Piaf songs and began singing them in Philadelphia clubs and cafes. She made several television appearances and appeared in a Canadian production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Besides her cabaret repertoire, she also developed a concert-lecture performance which bridges French popular and classical songs. She continues to perform at colleges and cabarets, and has produced three records, Parlez-moi d'amour (1994), Souveinrs de Paris (1999), and her most recent CD The Grand Legrand (2003).
Claudia has sung at a variety of theatrical and cabaret venues, includung Odette's in New Hope, Act Two Playhouse, Lincoln Center, and Plays and Players Theater in Philadelphia.
↓ more ↓A published poet, Claudia recently had a poem dedicated to her late sister, Laurie set to music by composer and pianist Rich Rudin.
Conductor and arranger Bruce W. Coyle says of The Grand Legrand that Claudia's "interpretations are wonderfully passionate ... [the]arrangements are wonderfully inventive". He praises Claudia's "rich lower register" and the "accomplished" and "stellar" accompaniment.
OTHER COMMENTS
... you'll get an added glow from the voice of talented Claudia Beechman, who specializes in the heartwarming songs of Edith Piaf and other chanteuses.
- Philadelphia Inquirer
One of the best singers in Philadelphia.
- Chuck Elliot on WXPN
To hear Claudia Beechman sing the songs of Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, you'd peg her as Parisian.
- Montgomery County Record
"...regional great Claudia Beechman"
-A. D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper
Hear the passion of Paris ... in her sultry, sophisticated singing voice
- Jewish Exponent
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