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music by Andre Previn...
...poster says: "Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard. Music by Andre Previn." But don't expect a Broadway crowd pleaser. Rough Crossing isn't really a musical. It's not really by Tom Stoppard either. But billing aside, the production at Quincy House is an enjoyable rendition of an intelligent farce...
...similarly eclectic spirit enlivens A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert, a recording of a 1991 performance that featured Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Wynton Marsalis and Andre Previn conducting the Orchestra of St. < Luke's. This potpourri of holiday goodies makes a determined effort to be culturally inclusive: one of its many delights is the calypso Christmas tune Mary's Little Boy Chile...
...watcher is taking in the action and talking back to his TV set. Of the ex- gymnast, he predicts, "She'll be running for office very soon." The President, as usual, quotes a letter, this one from a child named Joy Vaughn. "What if her name were Joy Previn?" asks the viewer sarcastically. One of the pols plugs voluntary prayer in schools. "Well," is the response, "there goes the First Amendment again...
...expect to read a cool appraisal of Woody Allen's new film. The tawdry gossip attending Husbands and Wives -- the question of whether it contains clues to Allen's dumping Mia Farrow in favor of her 21-year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn Farrow -- this is irrelevant, surely, to the noble trade of movie criticism. You want us to ponder weightier issues, like the piquant mise-en-scene in the oeuvre of a major auteur. Perhaps the entire review should be in French...