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COCO, with book by Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady), music by Andre Previn, the Hollywood tunesmith. Costumes and sets by Cecil Beaton. Starring Katharine Hepburn. Couturière Coco Chanel and the Beautiful People...
...decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale. By 1958, when he was offered a professorship, he was already noted as a deft, if sometimes perplexing, composer...
THIRD ANNUAL FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach, Fla., features the London Symphony, directed by André Previn and guests, starting July 18. A "real blockbuster" is promised for the final concert on Aug. 11, when the orchestra will number 200 players to do justice to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture...
...squib about the tribulations of a Rudolph Bing of the 18th century. Commissioned by Emperor Josef II for a party, Mozart received a generous 50 ducats (about $300) for the work. In an effort to make it a "20th century transplantation," the libretto was reworked in English by Dory Previn, Conductor Andre's wife. Her adaptation makes it a gossipy backstage operetta of fights, love affairs and campy humor. The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart, but a carefully selected cast helps to make the one-disk album worth at least one hearing by those interested...
Pianist-Conductor Daniel Barenboim, who is taking the London Symphony to the U.S., immediately arranged to have Oliver conduct his piece at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall this week. Andre Previn was shown the score and decided to perform it next season with the Houston Symphony. "I would have taken it to be the work of an adult," said Previn, 39. "The fact that it was written by a boy of 14 is amazing and frightening...