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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WOODY ALLEN AND SOON YI PREVIN He was 56; she was 21 (although she has no birth certificate, and could have been younger) But: technically, he was not her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...PARENTS. WOODY ALLEN, 63, filmmaker, and his wife SOON-YI PREVIN, 28, have a daughter, Bechet Dumaine Allen. A spokesman for Allen would not comment on whether the couple's first child, named for jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, was adopted or biological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Things began to look up after the Bach with the Boston premiere of composer-conductor Andre Previn's Sonata Vineyard, named so because it was composed just after Previn and his wife bought a home on Martha's Vineyard in 1994. The sonata is a turbulent, impassioned work that seems almost schizophrenic in its frenetic metric upheaval, alternation of fast and slow and its jagged leaping between notes, and thus the overly-vigorous attacks that seemed so out of place in Bach seem most appropriate here. The piece obviously requires the attentions of a virtuoso, and Shaham...

Author: By Ankur N. Gnosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Virtuoso Shaham Astounds Adoring Audience | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Francisco Opera has done its best by Previn's first opera: Colin Graham's direction is crisp, Michael Yeargan's sets are suitably sleazy, and Renee Fleming pours heart and soul into the role of Blanche DuBois. But Previn's well-bred score barely hints at the dark crosscurrents of obsession and desperation that made Tennessee Williams' play so naggingly memorable. This slow-moving Streetcar is tonal but tuneless, sometimes violent but never sexy. Even the bluesy bits are oddly polite--an unexpected letdown from a composer-conductor who plays first-rate jazz piano on the side. Let's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...Andre Previn has conducted symphony orchestras throughout the world, composed scores for Broadway (Coco) and Hollywood (Bad Day at Black Rock) and even written a dryly witty autobiography (No Minor Chords: My Days in Hollywood). Now he's finally got around to his first opera, a three-hour-long adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. Previn, who turned 69 in April, knows he's leading with his chin--nearly all the great opera composers of the past got started in their 20s or 30s--so he has taken out a classy piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: Autumn Ascendant | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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