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Sad news that Previnhas passed on. A great conductor.
That sketch is still hilarious!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xds7am
Easy to overlook his incredible achievements due to that genius sketch!
lovely boy...
Just Brilliant !!
RIP Andrew Preview
Spooky , working in a house today and the 2 OAP owners were saying how they loved that sketch .
Very sad news. A great musician, conductor and composer.
This video of the sketch includes the brilliant stuff before the orchestra bit. Previn learned his lines in the back of the cab from the airport.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl9sgf
Rest in peace Mr preview
Aaa, that video above is class - what a man, from such a formal environment, to happily send himself up that way. I love how the orchestra are cracking up - comedy gold. 🙂
"something wrong with the violins?"
It's still an absolute classic.
Aaa, that video above is class – what a man, from such a formal environment, to happily send himself up that way. I love how the orchestra are cracking up – comedy gold.
He worked in Hollywood for a long period before taking classical music seriously - he won a number of Oscars, this made him an ideal person make classical music more accessible and he did a lot of TV as a result.
I did go to a concert where the programme was changed to include a premiere of a Violin Concerto he composed for Sophie Ann Mutter, who was the soloist and soon to be his wife. It is fair to say I lacked the knowledge of classical music required to find it accessible and would have preferred to hear the original programme.
This was on the tribute on BBC2 last night. Mr Preview did say that "he wasn't a great singer, but he did know the piece"!
I had been rehearsing my first professional operatic role that day in August and as a regular Prommer I came to the Royal Albert Hall to hear what I hoped would be an evening of class music-making with the LSO and André Previn: the Vaughan Williams’ Tallis Fantasia, a new piece by Gordon Crosse and Orff’s mighty Carmina Burana – a piece I had sung several times before as a student and which I was interested to hear Thomas Allen, at the time a favourite baritone of mine, perform.
It was a warm evening and as the concert was being telerecorded the TV lights were on. The rest is history. Allen collapsed at the end of his second solo, tried to recover for his third but collapsed again and was taken from the stage. Fellow Prommers urged me to check backstage whether the BBC had a substitute lined up – they didn’t and I was shoved onto the stage in a borrowed dinner jacket.
Conductor André Previn wondered whether I was the bringer of bad tidings but was relieved to see me clutching the score. I sang the final four baritone numbers (pretty well – I have a tape to prove it!), received an enormous ovation and retired to the pub with my friends. As a young professional I felt I only did what I was trained to do but the following day I become headline news with newspaper articles, radio and TV interviews and great interest in the forthcoming broadcast.