Andre Previn - The Kindness of Strangers
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Features
• Classical
• Color
• Dolby
• Dubbed
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1998
DVD Release : 06 November, 2001 |
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Andre Previn - The Kindness of Strangers description
André Previn is one of the most interesting figures on the classical music scene, and this well-crafted television documentary on his career deserves to be preserved, in classrooms and public libraries if not in private collections. It is essentially an introduction to Previn's blockbuster opera A Streetcar Named Desire (based on the Ten ... review details
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There is some brief mention about his musical upbringing: mainly by his lawyer father when he was in Germany before he was 8 or 9. Andre spoke a lot in this DVD. And perhaps because of his European background, and also his musical training, his spoken English, almost as spellbinding as Menuhin, is most un-American like and definitley without the slightest trace of any jazz at all...
Of the three-horse chariot he has been riding, the most controversial would be that of a pianist inspite of the fact that Philips listed him as a great pianists of the century. And one could only say with regret that little clue, if at all, could be found from this DVD to justify it one way or the other. Well, he did play a short piece of jazz music here, which is superb, plus an exerpt of some classical chamber music. Oddly enough, the chamber musicians as shown on the footage didn't bow to the way the pianist was interpreting the music, and moreover, few classical musicians in the symphony orchestra under his baton are well versed with his jazz music at all! And that inevitably brings to my mind of the ironic fact that while Gulda was given, so to speak, severely punishment for his dedication and talents in jazz music, whereas Andre is so well honoured for about the same cause!
He is, however, given fuller coverage as a conductor but one can't help getting the feeling that there is so much more to be desired even in this repect. And information-- leave alone any analysis or appreciation -- of his life as a composer, be it just Kindness of Strangers or otherwise, is rather limited. And in any event, as seen from the DVD, it is much less colourful than that of Korngold's, both in terms of quantity and quality save and except perhaps for the jazz world, which few classical musicians are at home with. A good DVD for Andre's fans and jazz music lovers. |
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