Dory Previn, the lyricist for three Oscar-nominated songs who as a composer and performer mined her difficult childhood, bouts of mental illness and a very public divorce to create a potent and influential personal songbook, died on Tuesday at her home in Southfield, Mass. She was 86. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Joby Baker. Ms. Previn...
IN a life of tremendous sweep -- political refugee and Oscar winner are just two of the labels attached to his name -- the pianist, composer and conductor André Previn has never stopped playing jazz. Mr. Previn, 82, started recording the music as a teenager, won a Grammy for it in his 30s and plays it, time and health allowing, in top clubs to...
With Japan still much in the news, the spring installment of Carnegie Hall's citywide festival of Japanese culture, JapanNYC, took center stage on Monday evening, with a concert by the NHK Symphony Orchestra in the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie. In addition to the recent devastating earthquake in Japan and its aftermath, another melancholy note had...
Sir André Previn (egentlig Andreas Ludwig Priwin, født 6. april 1929 eller 1930) er en kendt pianist, komponist og dirigent. Previn selv er usikker på, hvornår han er født, da hans fødselsattest er gået tabt.
Previn blev født i en jødisk familie i Berlin, men pga. det nationalsocialistiske regime i Tyskland flygtede Previn med familien til USA i 1938.
Previn begyndte i filmbranchen, hvor han som komponist af filmmusik vandt fire Oscars i efterkrigsårene. Han blev første mand til at modtage ærestitlen "The Jazzmusician of the Year".
I 1967 blev Previn dirigent ved . Året efter begyndte han i London Symphony Orchestra. I 1970'erne blev han tilknyttet , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra og .
I 2002 blev Previn chefdirigent for Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester, efter at orkesterets dirigent i en årrække, Mariss Jansons, pludselig trak sig. Fra august 2006 overtog Jukka-Pekka Saraste denne stilling. Fold ud