Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his young years.

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Demanding and no doubt a perfectionist, Previn's latest performance is on the new solo jazz piano CD, Alone.

NPR: Andre Previn: Musical Polymath Goes Solo

Of course, if you were being stored in the kind of digs that Allen and Previn are staying in during the tour, maybe you wouldn't want to leave.

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Previn's score for his first opera is most successful during its jazzier moments, when horns and the clarinet take prominence and give the boozy, detached feel of Blanche.

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Travelling with Soon-Yi Previn and his sister, Letty Aronson, Allen delivers the same scintillating patter that marks his films and, unsurprisingly, seems as idiosyncratically fussy in life as in art.

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In 1956, Previn made his own jazz history.

NPR: Andre Previn: Musical Polymath Goes Solo

Though his vocal parts sometimes meandered, Mr. Previn's orchestral writing was smart and evocative, encompassing hints of Benjamin Britten and touches of jazz, like the sinuous saxophone riffs that color the rhapsodic, earthy relationship of Stella and Stanley.

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Previn's adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, with a libretto by Philip Littell, returned for Thursday night's semistaged concert performance at Carnegie Hall with Renee Fleming, who sang Blanche Dubois at the San Francisco Opera's world premiere production.

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Andre Previn is a musical polymath.

NPR: Andre Previn: Musical Polymath Goes Solo