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...Impatience gnaws at me once in a while," says Hollywood Composer Andre Previn. "I don't think I'll ever go as far as I want to go.'' The remark falls somewhat strangely from his lips. A musical director at M-G-M when he was barely 19, Previn has since juggled the careers of arranger, composer, conductor, concert pianist and jazzman, and kept each in the air without missing a beat...
During the past two weeks, Previn was planning two new jazz albums and an album of chamber music; he was also rehearsing Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations for a concert with the Los Angeles Symphony, discussing the scores for three new pictures, writing an arrangement for Ella Fitzgerald of a song he has written (called Yes), and rehearsing (in New York City) for an appearance with Benny Goodman on TV's Swing into Spring. In Hollywood he barely had time to drop in at the Pantages Theater on his thirtieth birthday to collect a glittering memento of his most...
Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...
...Gershwin, famous composer-pianist and known the werld over for his "Rhapsody in Blue," will give a concert at Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, January 14. He will have with him James Melton, well-known radio tenor, and also Leo Reisman's orchestra of 38 pieces, directed by Charles Previn...