Word: previn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan. Singer Glen Campbell, it seems, is slated to give a benefit concert for John Connally. From the White House, via a guest list for a recent campaign dinner, comes word that supporters of the Carter-Mondale team include Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Cheryl Ladd, Leontyne Price, Andre Previn and Andre Kostelanetz...
Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony (Soprano Sheila Armstrong, Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Robert Tear, St. Clement Danes School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Andre Previn conductor, Angel). Berlin born and Hollywood bred, Previn continues to show a surprising flair for English music. Here he leads a zesty performance of a piece that, like so much English music, makes a strength of its provincialism: it has medieval and folk echoes, strikes a resolutely winsome and pastoral note, and is steeped in native literature (with settings of verses by poets from Herrick and Blake to Auden). Britten composed it when...
DIVORCED. Mia Farrow, 33, pixyish actress (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby);and Andre Previn, 49, composer, conductor and currently music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; after eight years of marriage, six children (three adopted); in Santo Domingo...
Brahms: Four Serious Songs, Two Songs for Alto and Viola, Eight Lieder (Mezzo Janet Baker, Pianist André Previn; Angel). Set to biblical passages about death, suffering and love, Brahms' late songs have a stately quality that Baker's dark, resonant voice conveys perfectly. Her low notes thrill with their sad, serene beauty...
...sane into the insane and pretends that its own insanity is rea son itself. As slyly as if he were pulling a rabbit from his hat, Stoppard has written a play as propaganda, and its anti-Soviet message is all the more effective for its wit and humor. Andre Previn's music, which he himself conducted, is equally witty. Hinting at Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Previn underlines Stoppard's words and adds his own notes of satire. When Alexander, for instance, says that confinement will at least allow him time to read War and Peace, the orchestra mocks...