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...Party these days, but former Prime Minister Edward Heath still calls the tune occasionally. Heath, who was ousted as head of the Conservatives in February, made his continental debut as a symphony conductor last week before sellout audiences in Bonn and Cologne. At the invitation of Maestro André Previn, Heath led the London Symphony Orchestra through a 15-minute performance of Elgar's Cockaigne overture while West German TV cameras recorded the event. "Scintillating," applauded Bonn's General-Anzeiger. "Heath probably took Richard...
...canyon where Dory Previn lives is somewhat less rustic, but the sexual gambits and Peyton Place plays enacted in the neighborhood serve as a source for lyrics that have won her a strong cult following. The lyrics produced by Minnie Riperton, 26, are a bit less worldly. Her songs about personal motivation, spiced with a soupçon of I'm O.K.-You're O.K. philosophy, are deliciously upbeat. Few miss the message, since several years of operatic vocal training have given her a five-octave range...
...Jack Clayton in a burst of romanticism. This is not strictly true. In her Hollywood days, Mia ground out TV's Peyton Place until she briefly became Frank Sinatra's wife. She almost became a major star in Rosemary's Baby. But after marrying Conductor Andre Previn, she opted for domestic life in England with the couple's twin sons and their adopted Vietnamese daughter. Quiet, sparrow-thin and doe-eyed, Mia hardly seems a candidate to play Fitzgerald's teasing, haughty heroine. Yet in Theoni Aldredge's exquisite period costumes...
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; London; 3 LPs; $17.94. London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, conductor; Angel; 3 LPs; $17.98). A typical instance of how the classical record industry can drive its customers berserk and eat up its own profits. The complete version of this score has been almost totally neglected since the LP's birth 25 years ago; now come two competing versions. Ah, free enterprise! Both sets manage to confirm that this is the finest evening-length ballet score since Tchaikovsky. Neither, as it happens, quite equals the poetry and passion of Charles Munch...
...Comme elle est beau!" exclaimed Actress Mia Farrow at Paris' Orly Airport, where she had flown to receive her new baby. "Comme elle est belle!" corrected her husband, Conductor Andre Previn. It had taken two years to make the arrangements, but the three-year-old Previn twins now have a three-month-old sister, a war orphan from Saigon. Her name, which Andre says "has just the right Eastern ring about it," is Kym Lark. It means Miss Joyful...