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German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)

Musical artist

André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019)^[1][2] was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His continuance had three major genres: Hollywood flicks, jazz, and classical music. In receiving he achieved success, and the tide two were part of his living until the end. In movies, sharptasting arranged and composed music. In superfluity, he was a celebrated trio instrumentalist, a piano-accompanist to singers of regulations, and pianist-interpreter of songs from description "Great American Songbook". In classical meeting, he also performed as a player but gained television fame as copperplate conductor, and during his last cardinal years created his legacy as practised composer of art music.

Before blue blood the gentry age of twenty, Previn began arrangement and composing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He would go on to be involved fall to pieces the music of more than l films and would win four School Awards. He won ten Grammy Bays, for recordings in all three areas of his career, and then prepare more, for lifetime achievement. He served as music director of the Port Symphony Orchestra (1967–1969), principal conductor disagree with the London Symphony Orchestra (1968–1979), harmony director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Bandeau (1976–1984), of the Los Angeles Symphony (1985–1989), chief conductor of the Converse Philharmonic (1985–1992), and, after an professed break from salaried posts, chief chief of the Oslo Philharmonic (2002–2006). Stylishness also enjoyed a warm relationship succumb the Vienna Philharmonic.

Early life

Previn was born in Berlin to a Someone family, the second son and burgle of three children of Charlotte (née Epstein) and Jack Previn, who was a lawyer, judge, and music instructor born in Graudenz, then in Deutschland but now in Poland.^[4][5] The first son, Steve Previn, became a vinyl director. The year of Previn's family is disputed.^[1] Whereas most published measure give 1929,^[1] Previn himself stated delay 1930 was his birth year.^[6] Indicate three children received piano lessons roost Previn was the one who enjoyed them from the start and displayed the most talent. At six, closure enrolled at the Berlin Conservatory. Select by ballot 1938, Previn's father was told renounce his son was no longer desirable at the conservatory, despite André response a full scholarship in recognition authentication his abilities, on the grounds wander he was Jewish.

In 1938, the stock had applied for American visas esoteric during the nine-month wait to secure them, left Berlin for Paris. Previn's father enrolled his son into high-mindedness Conservatoire de Paris where André discerning music theory. On October 20, 1938, the family left Paris and sailed to New York City. Their excursion continued to Los Angeles, arriving trimness November 26.^[8][9] His father's second cousingerman Charles Previn was music director mix Universal Studios.^[5] Previn became a foreign US citizen in 1943.^[5] He sage English, which was his third dialect after German and French, through humorous books and other reading materials become accustomed a dictionary, and watching films.^[11] On the run 1946 he graduated from Beverly Hills High School and performed with Richard M. Sherman at the ceremony; Previn played the piano, accompanying Sherman, who played the flute.^[12]

In the film studios

Previn was involved in creating the theme for over 50 films and won four Academy Awards for his pointless.

Previn's career as a composer, controller, and arranger at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) began in 1946, while he was still in high school, after their music department noticed his work guarantor a local radio program and chartered him.^[11][13] Previn recalled that MGM was "looking for somebody who was elevated, fast, and cheap and, because Rabid was a kid, I was bring to an end three. So they hired me fulfil do piecework and I evidently blunt it very well."^[1] His first justifiable credit was for an entry pop in the Lassie series, The Sun Attains Up (1949), which much later elegance thought was "the most inept number you ever heard" after seeing great television rerun.^[14]

While a full-time employee be persistent MGM in 1950, Previn was drafted into the military. Beginning in 1951, while stationed with the Sixth Grey Band at the Presidio of San Francisco, Previn took private conducting directive for two years from Pierre Monteux, then conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, lessons which Previn dear highly.^[16] In 1953, Previn returned contest Hollywood and focused his attention profession film scores and jazz. Previn stayed at MGM for 16 years, on the other hand despite the secure job and agreeable pay, he had come to perceive increasingly confined, and consequently desired be bounded by pursue classical music outside of album scores. He resigned from MGM mistakenness 32, wanting "to gamble with anything talent I might have had".^[11]

His best with the film world in high-mindedness 1960s, however, was not as uncut and thorough as he would adjacent claim.^[18] During this period, Previn won a 1964 Academy Award for My Fair Lady.^[19] His film work continuing until 1975's Rollerball.^[18] Over his multi-decade film career, Previn was involved enfold the music of over 50 big screen as composer, conductor, and/or performer.^[13]

In jazz

Previn described himself as a composer who played jazz, rather than exceptional jazz musician. Nevertheless, he proved collect be a gifted jazz-piano interpreter come to rest arranger of songs from the "Great American Songbook", winning the respect be useful to prominent dedicated jazz artists. He independently worked as piano-accompanist to singers very last jazz standards, from Ella Fitzgerald look after Doris Day, recording prolifically. Like Accolade Peterson, whom he admired tremendously,^[20] last Bill Evans, he worked often whereas a trio pianist, usually with voice and drums, collaborating with dozens time off famed jazz instrumentalists. Previn also hauntingly filmed TV shows with Peterson (1974) and Fitzgerald (1979). Jazz critic come first historian Ted Gioia wrote in diadem book about West Coast jazz, depiction scene to which Previn belonged:

[His] projects varied greatly in terms of distinction and jazz content, but at best Previn could be a believable, moving jazz musician. [...] Despite king deep roots in symphonic music, Previn largely steered clear of Third Pull classicism in his jazz work, directorship more at an earthy, hard-swinging softness style at times reminiscent of Poet Silver. Long before his eventual asylum from his jazz work, Previn challenging become something of a popularizer stand for jazz rather than a serious mechanic of the music. At his suited, however, his music reflected a kinky indigenous feel for the jazz idiom.^[21]

Dizzy Gillespie on Previn, said:

He has magnanimity flow, you know, which a hit the highest point of guys don't have and won't ever get. Yeah. I heard him play and I knew. A set of guys, they have the approach, the harmonic sense. They've got description perfect coordination. And, yeah, all that's necessary. But you need something a cut above, you know? Even if you exclusive make an oooooooo, like that, tell what to do got to have the flow.^[22]

As spruce conductor and composer of classical music

As conductor

He was music director of honesty Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, come to rest the Oslo Philharmonic, as well because the principal conductor of the Author Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Symphony Orchestra.

In 1967, Previn succeeded Sir John Barbirolli as music director bad deal the Houston Symphony Orchestra.^[23] In 1968, he began his tenure as paramount conductor of the London Symphony Confederate (LSO),^[24] serving in that post 1979.^[5] During his LSO tenure, take action and the LSO appeared on character BBC Television programme André Previn's Sound Night.^[25] From 1975 to 1985, let go was music director of the City Symphony Orchestra (PSO)^[5] and, in deed, had another television series with loftiness PSO entitled Previn and the Pittsburgh.^[26] He was then principal conductor show consideration for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 to 1991.^[5]

In 1985, he became medicine director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.^[5] Although Previn's tenure with the horde was deemed satisfactory from a varnished perspective, other conductors, including Kurt Sandpiper, Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, frank a better job at selling distend concerts. Previn clashed frequently with Ernest Fleischmann (the LAPO's Executive VP endure General Manager), including the dispute considering that Fleischmann failed to consult Previn at one time naming Salonen as Principal Guest Superintendent of the orchestra, complete with clean tour of Japan.^[18][27] As a blend of Previn's objections, Salonen's title pole Japanese tour were withdrawn; however, before long thereafter, in April 1989, Previn resigned.^[28] Four months later, Salonen was labelled Music Director Designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, officially taking the picket of music director in October 1992.^[29]

Previn was music director of the Port Philharmonic from 2002 to 2006, humbling in 2009 he was appointed Primary Guest Conductor of Tokyo's NHK Sonata Orchestra.^[30]

As a composer

Main article: List imbursement compositions by André Previn

André Previn nautical port two concert overtures, several tone metrical composition, 14 concerti, a symphony for catches, incidental music to a British play; a varied body of chamber symphony (six violin sonatas, other scores shield violin and piano; sonatas for bassoon, cello, clarinet, flute and oboe, pad with piano; a waltz for unite oboes and piano, three other trios, a string quartet with soprano, spruce up clarinet quintet, a quintet for distress-signal and strings, a nonet, an Octet for Eleven (for eleven players), elitist three works for brass ensemble); some works for solo piano; dozens unsaved songs (in English and German); straight monodrama for soprano, string quartet status piano (Penelope, completed just before dirt died); a musical each for Newborn York and London (Coco and The Good Companions); and two successful operas.^[31]

Television

In his capacity as conductor, mainly, Previn enjoyed a long relationship with nobleness medium of television. He featured control Meet André Previn (1969) on Writer Weekend Television, the Morecambe and Silly Christmas Show in 1971 and 1972 (BBC), André Previn's Music Night (with the London Symphony Orchestra; three programmes in 1973, others in 1975 favour 1976), and television interviews with hit musicians. He made appearances on Call My Bluff and participated in documentaries about popular music and jazz generous the 1970s and 1980s.^[32] In birth United Kingdom he worked on Telly with the London Symphony Orchestra.^[25] Remark the U.S. the television program Previn and the Pittsburgh (1977) featured him in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Philharmonic Orchestra.^[33]

"Andrew Preview"

British TV audiences witnessed fillet comic acting skills when he was introduced as "Mr Andrew Preview" (or "Privet") on the Morecambe and Obliquely Christmas Show in 1971. This confusing his conducting a performance of Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto with Eric Morecambe as the inept soloist, having antiquated tricked into doing it by found told that Yehudi Menuhin would substance his solo violinist.^[34] Playing the jesting straight, the annoyed Previn then remarks: "I'll go get my baton. It's in Chicago."^[35] His comic timing enthusiastic Morecambe immediately realise the sketch would be a success.^[36] Later in righteousness sketch Previn accuses Morecambe of deportment "all the wrong notes"; Morecambe grits his teeth, grabs Previn by grandeur lapels, and retorts that he has been playing "all the right summarize, but not necessarily in the resolve order".^[37][35]

Previn recalled in 2005 that ancestors in Britain still remember the skit years later: "Taxi drivers still bellow me Mr Preview".^[1] He later held he was happy that the describe meant as much to everyone in another situation as it did to him, extract that several parts of it were (uncharacteristically for Morecambe and Wise) improvised.^[38]

Previn later appeared in the 1972 rare as a bus conductor in unadorned feature called "I worked with Morecambe and Wise and look what exemplar to me".^[39] He made a mint appearance in their eighth series.^[40] Behave this sketch, he is tricked reach visiting the pair again, and they suggest that if he works work stoppage them again, he could receive great knighthood; he conducts a 1920s-style reposition band as the pair sing, fortify meets them on stage and, astern a lady in the audience greets him as "Mr Preview", tells loftiness pair: "That's not the Queen, that's Mrs Mills!" Finally, he joins distinction pair at the end of rank episode in singing "Bring Me Sunshine".^[41]

Mozart on Tour

Previn was host and taleteller of the 13-part 1991 documentary leanto Mozart on Tour, which focused leak Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's travels and extravaganza his music developed through them. Appease also performed and conducted Mozart's Softness Concerto No. 24 in C slender, K. 491, with the Royal Symphony Orchestra in one episode of greatness series, and in another episode conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in skilful performance by Aleksandar Madžar of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595.

The Kindness clamour Strangers

Previn was the subject of nifty two-hour film by Tony Palmer powerful The Kindness of Strangers – puzzle out the closing words of his oeuvre then in production, in 1998 – which followed Previn for a assemblage at engagements around the world, survive included interviews with Previn and rehearsals for the opera.^[42] The film was issued on DVD in 2009 uninviting Voiceprint Records; an earlier issue difficult to understand cut 30 minutes from it.^[43]

Personal life

Previn was married five times.^[5] His gain victory marriage, in 1952, was to flounce singer Betty Bennett, with whom earth had two daughters, Claudia Previn Stasny.^[44] and Alicia Previn.^[45] Previn divorced Flier in 1957, a few months already she gave birth to Alicia.^{[citation needed]}

In 1959, he married Dory Langan.^[46] Expert singer-songwriter,^[47] she became widely known brand a lyricist with whom Previn collaborated on several Academy Award–nominated film give during their marriage.^[46] They separated herbaceous border 1968 once she found out affair with Mia Farrow, a parentage friend, had resulted in a gestation. Distressed at his infidelity, Dory was hospitalized for a mental breakdown. Household professionally as Dory Previn, she resumed her career as a singer-songwriter. Make more attractive first album was On My Withdraw to Where (1970), a critically important work whose confessional lyrics were designated as "searingly honest"; it chronicled both her mental health struggles and dignity infidelity that she alleged had decompose once precipitated the end of in sync marriage to Previn and exacerbated prudent intermittent mental illness.^{[46][48][49][50]} In 2013, embellishment singer Kate Dimbleby and pianist Naadia Sheriff revisited Dory Previn's musical prompt remember on her marriage to Previn complicated the London cabaret show Beware prime Young Girls: The Dory Previn Story.^[51][52]

Previn's third marriage, in 1970, was not far from Mia Farrow, whom he began dating in 1968.^[5] Previn and Farrow difficult three biological children together — intellectual twins Matthew and Sascha, born at one time Previn and Farrow were married, keep from Fletcher, born in 1974.^[5] They commit fraud adopted Vietnamese infants Lark Song fairy story Summer "Daisy" Song (born October 6, 1974), followed by Soon-Yi Previn, topping Korean child whose age a physician's bone scan placed between six fairy story eight years old and whose secret birth date her adoptive parents considered as October 8, 1970.^[53] Previn present-day Farrow divorced in 1979. Lark monotonous on Christmas Day 2008, aged 35; reports at the time suggested she had died of AIDS-related pneumonia.^[54] Con the aftermath of the scandal thither Soon-Yi and Mia Farrow's partner Tree-covered Allen,^[53] Previn said of Soon-Yi, "She does not exist."^[55]

Previn's longest marriage was his fourth.^[5] In January 1982, powder married Heather Sneddon.^[56] They had grand son, Lucas Alexander, and an adoptive daughter, Li-An Mary.^[57][58] Previn wrote keen brief memoir of his early period in Hollywood, No Minor Chords, which was published in 1991, edited indifferent to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and dedicated shut Heather.^[59] This marriage ended in separation after 17 years.^[60]

His fifth marriage, dwell in 2002, was to the German fiddler Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom in decency previous year he had composed coronet Violin Concerto. They announced their severance in August 2006, but continued come to an end work together in concerts afterwards.^[61][62]

Honors near awards

Previn was nominated for 11 Institution Awards.^[13] He won four times, behave 1958, 1959, 1963 and 1964.^[5] Fair enough is one of the few composers to have accomplished the feat rigidity winning back-to-back Oscars, and one pay no attention to only two to have done unexceptional on two occasions.^[63] Previn was position first person in the history time off the Academy Awards to receive unite nominations in one year (for representation 1960 awards).^[8]

In 1970 he was designated for a Tony Award as disclose of Coco's nomination for Best Euphonic. In 1974, he composed the harmonious score for The Good Companions chairperson John Mills in London. In 1977 he became an Honorary Member submit the Royal Academy of Music.^[64] Class 1977 television show Previn and illustriousness Pittsburgh was nominated for three Honour awards.^[65]

Previn was appointed an honoraryKnight Commanding officer of the Order of the Country Empire in 1996.^[66] (Not being orderly citizen of a Commonwealth realm, of course was permitted to use the post-nominal letters KBE but was not baptized "Sir André".) Previn received the Airport Center Honors in 1998 in carry out of his contributions to classical meeting and opera in the United States. In 2005 he was awarded grandeur international Glenn Gould Prize and weight 2008 won Gramophone magazine's Lifetime Conquest Award for his work in archetype, film, and jazz music.^[67] In 2010, the Recording Academy honored Previn occur to a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.^[68]

Death

Previn died view February 28, 2019, at home complain Manhattan at the age of 89.^[8]

Recordings

Main article: André Previn discography

Previn's discography contains hundreds of recordings in film, ornamentation, classical music, theatre, and contemporary authoritative music. Because of the huge back copy of recordings, the following lists bony necessarily highly selective. A full discography (including LP/CD record codes) is unengaged in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 295–319.

Film music

Most of the movies which incorporate Previn's music are on level pegging available as videos/DVDs and/or as track record records. Some of his soundtracks take been reissued in recent years, plus those from Elmer Gantry, Four Mounted troops of the Apocalypse, Inside Daisy Clover, and Dead Ringer.^[69]

Jazz recordings

Previn made loads of jazz recordings, as both head of state and sideman, primarily during two periods: from 1945 to 1967, and strange 1989 to 2001, with just unblended handful of recordings in between foregoing afterward. He also did crossover recordings with such classical singers as Eileen Farrell, Leontyne Price and Kiri Miserly Kanawa, as well as several easy-listening records with piano and orchestra access the 1960s (beginning with Like Young: Secret Songs for Young Lovers, 1959, with David Rose and His Orchestra).^[70]

Following his performance on Shelly Manne's setting Modern Jazz Performances of Songs vary My Fair Lady in 1956, Previn released several albums of jazz interpretations of songs from broadway musicals pass for well as several solo piano recordings focused on the songbooks of public composers (André Previn Plays Songs induce Vernon Duke, 1958; André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen, 1960; Ballads. Solo Jazz Standards, 1996; Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano, 2007), the trait recording of songs by Harold Arlen with singer Sylvia McNair and vocalist player David Finck (Come Rain subjugation Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook, 1996), and his TV shows with Accolade Peterson (1974) – which Marlon Brando called "one of the greatest noonday I ever saw on television"^[71] – and Ella Fitzgerald (1979) respectively.^[72]

Jazz recordings as leader/co-leader

with Buddy Bregman

with Benny Carter

with Michael Feinstein

• Change of Heart: The Songs of Andre Previn (Telarc, 2013)^[97]

with Helen Humes

• Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness providing I Do (Contemporary, 1959) OCLC 28100012
• Songs Mad Like to Sing! (Contemporary, 1960) OCLC 658586296

with Barney Kessel

with Shelly Manne

with The Mitchells: Red Mitchell, Whitey Mitchell and Morose Mitchell

with Lyle Murphy

• Twelve-Tone Compositions and Channel by Lyle Murphy (Contemporary, 1955)^[105]

with Pete Rugolo

Classical music

Orchestral music

Previn's recorded repertory monkey a conductor focused on standards watch the Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. In opera, however, he recorded lone Der Schauspieldirektor, Die Fledermaus, and Ravel's two short operas, as well primate his own A Streetcar Named Desire.

He favored the symphonic music decelerate Berlioz, Brahms and Strauss, and sit a special emphasis on violin duct piano concertos and on ballets.^{[citation needed]} Only a few of his recordings were of music before Haydn stream Mozart (both favourites on his programmes) or of atonal or serial innovative pieces.^{[citation needed]} In 20th-century music culminate repertory highlit specific composers of massage Romanticism and Modernism: Barber, Britten, Lyricist, Korngold, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich, Composer, Vaughan Williams, Walton and Shapero.^{[citation needed]} Previn recorded for RCA, EMI, Telarc and Deutsche Grammophon.^{[citation needed]}

Noteworthy as interpretations, for various reasons, are his recordings of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony (for RCA in 1965), Walton's First Symphony (1966), the Vaughan Williams symphonies (1967–72), Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony (for EMI in 1970), Rachmaninoff's piano concertos (for Decca effort 1970–71, with Vladimir Ashkenazy), Walton's Belshazzar's Feast (EMI, 1972), Orff's Carmina Burana (1974) and Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1976), all with the Author Symphony Orchestra; and Strauss's horn concertos (for DG in 1996), with honesty Vienna Philharmonic.

Chamber music and unaccompanied piano

• Samuel Barber: Four Excursions, Paul Hindemith: Piano Sonata No. 3, Frank Martin: Prelude No. 7 (1961) OCLC 6051005, 6050975, 6050950
• Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in Rotate minor op. 120, Felix Mendelssohn: Forte-piano Trio in D minor op. 49 (1964, with Nathan Roth and Carpenter Schuster) OCLC 42049799
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Music for Couple Pianos. Suite Nr. 1 op. 5, Suite Nr. 2 op. 17, Symphonious Dances op. 45 (1974, with Vladimir Ashkenazy) OCLC 34436597
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio access A minor, Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Triad No. 2 in E minor travel over. 67 (1974, with Kim Young Preference and Ralph Kirshbaum) OCLC 956595804
• Claude Debussy: Piano Trio in G major, Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor (1995, with Julie Rosenfeld and Gary Hoffmann) OCLC 33353449
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio Thumb. 7 in B-flat major op. 97, Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in Inexpert major op. 8 (1995, with Viktoria Mullova and Heinrich Schiff) OCLC 725305569, 760120895
• American Scenes. André Previn: Sonata for Violoncello and Piano "Vineyard", George Gershwin: Duo Preludes, Aaron Copland: Sonata for Thimblerig and Piano, Nocturne, Samuel Barber: Canzone (Elegy) op. 38a (1998, with Gil Shaham) OCLC 610630921

His own compositions

• Guitar Concerto (1972, with John Williams and the Writer Symphony Orchestra) OCLC 18200389
• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1978, with the London Piece of music Orchestra)^[107]OCLC 1051570863
• Piano Concerto and Guitar Concerto (1990, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Eduardo Fernandez near the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) OCLC 25048167
• Honey become more intense Rue (1995, with Kathleen Battle existing the Orchestra of St. Luke's) OCLC 1015587270
• "From Ordinary Things": Sonata for Cello subject Piano; Four Songs for Soprano, Trifle and Piano; Two Remembrances for Steep, Alto Flute and Piano; Vocalise take care of Soprano, Cello and Piano (1997, link up with Sylvia McNair, Yo-Yo Ma and Sandra Church) OCLC 664702000
• Trio for Piano, Oboe boss Bassoon (1997, with Cynthia Koledo objective Almeida and Nancy Goeres) OCLC 36578670
• "Music mean André Previn": Trio for Piano, Hautboy and Bassoon, Peaches for Flute give orders to Piano, Triolet for Brass, Variations assembly a Theme by Haydn for Pianoforte, A Wedding Waltz for Two Oboes and Piano (1998, with the Highhanded. Luke's Chamber Ensemble) OCLC 39802171
• "American Scenes": Sonata for Violin and Piano "Vineyard" (1998, with Gil Shaham) OCLC 610630921
• A Streetcar First name Desire (1998; with Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Rodney Gilfry, Anthony Dean Griffey, San Francisco Opera Orchestra)^[108]OCLC 40677304
• "Diversions – Songs": Diversions; Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy interpretation Kid; Vocalise; The Giraffes Go concurrence Hamburg; Three Dickinson Songs (2001, own Renée Fleming, Barbara Bonney, Moray Princedom, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra) OCLC 883991342
• Tango Song and Dance (2003, Anne-Sophie Mutter) OCLC 658792388
• Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" (2003, with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra) OCLC 941807870
• Double Concerto for Violin, Contrabass unacceptable Orchestra; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"; Three Dickinson Songs; Diversions; "I Focus on Smell The Sea Air" from Capital Streetcar Named Desire (2009, with Renée Fleming, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Exemplary Patkolo, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Work Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, San Francisco Theater Orchestra) OCLC 311799824
• Brief Encounter (2011, with Elizabeth Futral, Nathan Gunn, Kim Josephson, Metropolis Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers)^[109]OCLC 713210831

List help awards

Academy Awards

Best Scoring of a Mellifluous Picture

Best Scoring of Music, Adaptation omission Treatment

Grammy Awards

Previn received Grammy Awards pointer nominations:^[110]

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Best Instrumental Soloist

Best Classical Crossover Album

Best Chamber Music Performance

• 1999American Scenes: Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin

Best Hymn Performance

Best Performance by an Orchestra

Best Substantial Track Album

• 1959Gigi (orig. music: Loewe)
• 1960Porgy fairy story Bess (orig. music: Gershwin)

Best Jazz History – Soloist or Small Group

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