 Legrand explained that they played the piece for Streisand and she was excited by it, but two weeks later she called and expressed that she could not sing the birth or death songs due to being too emotionally impactful, and requested he remove them; Legrand declined due to his belief that they were integral to the telling of the woman's life.Streisand felt that the composers had not fully developed their concept at that point, beyond a general "womb to tomb" idea.A technical issue arose when Streisand insisted she record the songs in the middle of an orchestra, which limited the sound engineers from mixing the pieces.