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Andre Previn: The Kindness Of Strangers
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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"Andre Previn at 80! lt scarcely seems credible. This is the man who won 4 Oscars aImost 50 years ago, and still maintains a fuII conducting, playing and composing schedule, each discipline of which wouId exhaust a man half his age. And he reaIIy is a phenomenal pianist, a conductor of profound insights, and a composer of considerabIe tonal originaIity.
"l once asked him how many songs he had written. After much hesitation, he told me he couldn't really remember. And that was not modesty; he just had no idea. ln fact, there are hundreds, in a sense cuIminating in his much underestimated opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, which is how we met. This film was made during the preparations, rehearsaIs and first performances of that opera in San Francisco.
"Two anecdotes illustrate for me the extraordinary musician I had the honour to work with. l knew of course that he was a jazz pianist whom even Oscar Peterson heId in awe so l was determined to film him playing jazz. He refused. 'l reaIIy haven't played jazz in public for years,' he toId me. Then by chance I discovered that he had been invited to play at bass player Ray Brown's 70th birthday ceIebrations at the BIue Note CIub in New York. l pIeaded with Previn to aIIow me to film this. He refused. So, of course, l hid away in the Blue Note Club and thanks to the wonders of digital cameras, no extra Iights were required so l was more-or-Iess invisibIe. After the first of the two shows, l went backstage to say heIIo. As always, he greeted me with the utmost courtesy and said: 'not bad, eh, for an out-of-practice old timer?' (His playing and improvisation had, of course, been breath-taking). 'Pity you didn't fiIm it....'
"So, here is the newly re-mastered original fiIm by way of a smaIl tribute. It was, and is, a privilege to know him and to acknowIedge his greatness as a musician and his very speciaI quaIities as man." Tony PaImer. |
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