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Meanwhile, Maazel last week was named music consultant to the Pittsburgh Symphony. But wait. Hasn't André Previn been music director there for the past eight years? Yes, but three weeks ago, Previn, 55, accepted an offer from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to succeed Carlo Maria Giulini as its music director beginning in January 1986. Previn's departure from Pittsburgh was sealed when he lost an ugly power struggle with Managing Director Marshall Turkin over the orchestra's artistic direction, a rupture that Previn declines to confirm. "To lose a job is one thing...
Maazel says he is not a candidate to replace Previn permanently, but will merely advise the Pittsburgh orchestra on programming and hiring conductors and soloists. "This is just to tide them over," says the conductor, who grew up in Pittsburgh and played violin in the orchestra for two seasons. He says he wants to concentrate on composing and guest conducting. "I have been in music administration for 20 years in Berlin, Cleveland and Vienna. This is the first time in two decades when I can just make music." In case he changes his mind, Maazel has commitments to lead several...
...world is insufficient to accommodate the opera companies and orchestras that are clamoring for their services. The top maestros jump from podium to podium to fill the gaps and often hold more than one job at a time; Abbado, for example, also conducts the London Symphony, and next year Previn will add London's Royal Philharmonic to his duties...
...Pittsburgh Symphony. With Andre Previn, 54, at its helm, the Pittsburgh Symphony achieved a high profile, thanks to the PBS television series Previn and the Pittsburgh. Similar in sound to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony is a dark-toned ensemble that is especially good in the romantic showpieces and in the music of English composers like Elgar and Vaughan Williams, a passion of the England-based Previn...
André Previn? The Berlin-born music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Previn, 53, came to the U.S. in 1939, when his parents fled Hitler. First active as a jazz pianist and arranger-winning four Academy Awards for his film scores-he got his start conducting in a post in Houston but attracted wide notice only after he was appointed to lead the London Symphony. Even in Pittsburgh, he is still strongly identified with English music. Another prominent member of this generation, Thomas Schippers, died at 47 in 1977. The music director of the Cincinnati Symphony was an opera conductor...