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...ANDRE PREVIN BROUGHT SMILES to the crowd at Symphony Hall last Saturday, guest-conducting an all-American program of Gould, Copland, Schuman and Gershwin. He composes as well, and at the concert it showed: he shaped the music as if it were...
Half an hour and another dozen well-wishers later, Allen emerges from his dressing room and heads off to dinner with girlfriend Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. "I'll see you guys in Milan," he tells the band, which stays in a separate hotel and flies commercial while Allen travels by private jet. But they're not complaining. The pay is good, and as Sayer points out over a plate of jumbo shrimp and French cheese, "the food's gotten a lot better since we started touring with Woody...
...moment equate capital crimes with romantic misdemeanors. Still, there's something icky in Allen's compulsion to write scripts about fiftysomething guys ready to dump their wives for nubile waifs the approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. This is the plot of Allen's 1992 Husbands and Wives, of his brutally funny playlet in the off-Broadway Death Defying Acts, and of his exasperating, finally engaging new film, Mighty Aphrodite...
...There's something icky in Woody Allen's compulsion to write scripts about fifty-something guys ready to dump their wives for nubile waifs the approximate age of Soon-Yi Farrow Previn," notes critic Richard Corliss. This was the story of 1992's "Husbands and Wives," and it returns in this tale of a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this...
...immediacy of Ax's playing extended into the stirring second movement, an Andante in contrast to traditional symphonic and concerto structures. Here Previn could have added some bite to the strings' releases in keeping with Ax's sharp interpretation. Hopeless romantics might have demanded more time in the springlike second section (especially in the chorale-like slow passage reminiscent of Brahms' First Symphony), but Previn joined Ax in propelling the piece forward...