Word: previn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mellowness and maturity have come to that jack-of-all-musical-trades, Andre Previn. He is 37 years old, and it is hard to believe that he was about half that age when MGM in 1948 assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 Jeanette MacDonald movie. Since then, he has plucked four Oscars for scoring Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce and My Fair Lady. Now Previn is changing, and so is his career. "The boy-wonder thing is over," he mused last week. "I have decided to concentrate on conducting...
...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...
Freedom to Fail. Ironically, Previn is drifting away from Hollywood just when he is in greatest demand, and can name his own price and property. Yet he has not made the leap without...
With Wife Dory, a former MGM lyricist, he is committed to write an 18-song musical score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a movie starring Richard Burton. And he will score two films, The Graduate and Catch-22, directed by his close pal Mike Nichols. Previn figures that he can do all this with half of one hand, while bearing down on stage, podium and recording studio. "Now, at least, I am responsible for my own mistakes," he says. "It's better than all those years when I was going from Lassie to Debbie Reynolds." Of course, between the dogs...
...reach, the remaining 13 candidates were put through a musical obstacle course: they had to conduct the first movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre Previn's Overture to a Comedy-for which they were given only 30 minutes to prepare. Said Concertmaster Gabriel Banat: "It was a harrowing experience for them and a merry-go-round...