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...London police were questioning an American who had tried to buy a watch with Andre Previn's credit card. The suspect produced an orchestration of Previn's identity papers along with a crescendo of protests. At length the detective in charge went through the motions of dismissing him. As the man turned to leave, the officer said casually, "By the way, that Vaughan Williams piece you played last week on television-was that his seventh symphony or his eighth?" The suspect stared at the detective for one slack-jawed moment. Then in disgust he threw up his hands...
...real Andre Previn, who has since recovered his stolen wallet, cites this story to illustrate his impact on music audiences since he became principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra four years ago. Previn is England's newest cottage industry, a musician in constant permutation-conductor-composer, composer-pianist, pianist-conductor-producing music in such unremitting abundance on television, recordings and in the concert halls that one expects any day to find him busking with mouth organ for the queues at the Palladium...
Sure Beat. There is, actually, no time for busking, since Previn is booked solid with other engagements far into 1975. Last week he finished supervising a two-week festival and workshop at London's arts complex on the south bank of the Thames, participating in no fewer than seven programs with astonishing versatility. One night he was conducting a chamber orchestra in Mozart, another playing jazz piano with Guitarist Barney Kessel, another accompanying Soprano Judith Raskin at the piano in Schubert lieder, another joining the Yale String Quartet in Brahms chamber music. After a brief rest, Previn will pick...
...very nervous, but also excited," said Actress Mia Farrow on the point of making her British stage debut in J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose with a repertory troupe in Manchester. Mia's two-year-old twin boys will be staying with her, but if Husband Andre Previn wants to see the play, he will have to sneak into the theater. "I have a horror of anyone I admire watching me act," says Mia. "I have made him promise not to let me know when he comes." Does this presage more footlights in her future? Well...
...Dory Previn was one of the country's top lyricists, and her collaboration setup seemed ideal. Teamed with her husband, Composer Andre Previn, she had written songs for a dozen films, including Valley of the Dolls, Irma La Douce and Goodbye, Charlie. Two of their songs had won Academy Award nominations. But the collaboration was less than it seemed. Dory's lyrics were good, even sensitive. But, as she explained to TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler, "they weren't my feelings. I was writing from other people's viewpoints. And while I was married to Andre...