The big news of the Houston Symphony's 2008-09 season is the return of Sir André Previn.

Andre Previn - or more accurately, Sir Andre, given the knighthood bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth in 1996 - is one of the very few pianists who moves back and forth between jazz and classical ...

He won four Academy Awards for his Hollywood work and pursued a parallel life as a jazz pianist, also managing to squeeze in conducting lessons with Pierre Monteux. Previn’s relationship with the ...

Pianist Andre Previn landed in Hollywood as a teenage prodigy in the late 1940s and began a career that moved through the worlds of jazz, pop, classical, and movie scores. In the 1950s and early ...

Pianist Andre Previn landed in Hollywood as a teenage prodigy in the late 1940s and began a career that moved through the worlds of jazz, pop, classical, and movie scores. In the 1950s and early ...

The Emmys on Sunday night mistakingly aired a photo of a living composer during the “in memoriam” montage meant to honor the late André Previn.Previn was a conductor, composer and jazz ...

There was a big mix-up during the “In Memoriam” segment at Sunday’s Emmys, with a photo of the very-much-alive conductor Leonard Slatkin used to honor the late composer André Previn.

The contrast couldn’t be greater with the tuneful 20th-century music in Monday’s chamber music lineup the night before, which benefited from two pieces that relied on jazz, and musicians that knew how ...

Musically, Previn’s score – or perhaps we should say Fetherolf’s treatment of it – sounded true to Previn’s pen, intertwining 20th century neo-romanticism with jazz-tinged harmony and ...

When the renowned composer André Previn died in February at the age of 89, he left dozens of Hollywood scores and a hefty discography of jazz and classical recordings. But he also left a not ...

The conductor, composer and pianist André Previn was not only among the most charismatic performers of his day. The German-born musician was an extraordinary and versatile talent who blurred the ...

André Previn, the conductor, pianist and composer known for his remarkable versatility and achievements in the fields of popular, jazz and classical music, from film to the concert hall, died ...