Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant spacecraft was sent aloft to conduct only one experiment. And after only four orbits, it disintegrated in flight. For all the brevity of its mission, though, the flight of the 29-ton SIV B vehicle last week was singularly important. It gave anxious earthbound scientists their first close look at the behavior of liquid hydrogen in space...
Previn has signed to conduct 60 concerts with various U.S. orchestras in the 1966-67 season, eight with the Houston Symphony. In two of the concerts, he will play the piano and conduct from the keyboard. He is also composing his first Broadway musical, Coco, about the life of 83-year-old Parisian Designer Coco Chanel, in which he is collaborating with Alan Jay Lerner. He has contracted with RCA Victor Red Seal to score either two pop or two jazz albums a year, and to do four conducting jobs a year...
...Bernstein, who showed that the composers and conductors of popular music could emulate the classical artists-and vice versa-without getting laughs. Says Previn: "Bernstein has made it possible not to specialize in one area of music. You no longer have to do just Broadway shows, or movies, or conduct-you can do any or all of them...
Pride & Prejudice. Despite his virtuosity, Previn's reputation in serious music circles was tarnished by his Hollywood glitter. "Wherever I went to conduct," he complains, "it was always 'Hollywood's Andre Previn came here last week and . . .' To have written a Broadway score is O.K., even admirable; having played a lot of jazz is O.K., but less admirable. But somehow, having worked in Hollywood is like being a well-known whore...
Previn won purity when he was invited to conduct the Houston Symphony four years ago. The city, with plenty of fierce pride in its fine orchestra and practically no prejudice against Hollywood, gave him high critical acclaim, has invited him back to conduct every year since then. Now he is the only guest conductor scheduled to lead the Houston Symphony, and nobody will be the least bit surprised if he eventually replaces 66-year-old Conductor Sir John Barbirolli. Previn does not expect that any of this will turn his head, which might be on a swivel by now. Conducting...