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Previn is a surname that can refer to: * Alicia Previn – American violinist, songwriter, recording artist and author; daughter of André Previn and Betty Bennett * André Previn (1929–2019) – German-born American pianist, conductor, and composer * Charles Previn (1888–1973) – American film composer * Claudia Previn - American singer, musician, actress, editor and graphic artist; daughter of André Previn and Betty Bennett * Dory Previn (1925–2012) – American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet; second wife of André Previn * Soon-Yi Previn (born 1970) – adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and André Previn; married to director Woody Allen Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen, accolade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Previn
Alicia Previn (also known as Lovely Previn) is an American violinist, songwriter, recording artist and author. She is the daughter, along with sister Claudia Previn, of André Previn, conductor of the Houston, Pittsburgh, and London Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and American jazz singer Betty Bennett. Early years Previn began playing the violin at 7-years-old and was classically trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London by Virginia Majewski and Joan Rotchford-Davies. She experimented with other music genres such as rock, folk, blues and jazz, performing in bands from age thirteen. In high school, she joined the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, conducted by her father at the Royal Albert and Festival Halls. Career Previn recorded, performed and toured with a variety of bands and artists in diverse musical genres, playing across the globe on singles and CDs. She was also a member of the Irish rock group In Tua Nua as well as The Young Dubliners. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Previn
André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated trio pianist, a piano-accompanist to singers of standards, and pianist-interpreter of songs from the " Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer of art music. Before the age of twenty, Previn began arranging and composing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He would go on to be involved in the music of more than fifty films and would win four Academy Awards. He won ten Grammy Awards, for recordings in all three areas of his career, and then one more, for lifetime ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Bennett (singer)
Betty Bennett (October 23, 1921 – April 7, 2020) was an American jazz and big band singer. Bennett was born in October 1921 in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Her first major signing was with the Claude Thornhill band in 1946, the band in which her husband, bassist Iggy Shevak, was playing. Shortly after her husband left to join Alvino Rey, Bennett followed him there. In 1949, she joined Charlie Ventura's band, before going on to join Benny Goodman in 1959. Her second album, ''Nobody Else but Me'', featured arrangements by Shorty Rogers and her second husband, André Previn. Bennett later married guitarist Mundell Lowe in 1975. He died in December 2017 at the age of 95. Bennett died in April 2020 at the age of 98. Personal life Bennett had two daughters, Claudia Previn and Alicia Previn, with husband André Previn. Discography * ''Betty Bennett Sings Previn Arrangements'' (Trend, 1953) * ''Nobody Else but Me'' (Atlantic, 1955) * ''Blue Sunday'' ( Kapp, 1957) * ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Previn
Charles Previn (January 11, 1888 – September 22, 1973) was an American film composer who was active at Universal in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. Before being based in Hollywood, Previn arranged music for over 100 Broadway productions. Previn was born in Brooklyn to Henrietta Giballe and the rabbi Morris Previn, who a year earlier had emigrated from Graudenz via Glasgow to the United States. He graduated from Brooklyn High School and obtained a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1910. He obtained a master's degree from New York College of Music. From 1936 to 1944, Previn was musical director at Universal, overseeing everything from horror pictures to Arabian Nights fantasies. He was a cousin of the father of German-born composer, pianist, and conductor André Previn and TV and film director Steve Previn (brothers).Hal Erickson, ''All Movie Guide'' He died in Los Angeles, aged 85. Professional career * Musician and conductor of vaudeville and musical come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Previn
Claudia Page Previn Stasny (née Previn; June 24, 1954) is an American singer, musician, actress, editor and graphic artist. She is the eldest daughter of American jazz and big band singer Betty Bennett Lowe and German-American pianist, composer and conductor André Previn KBE, conductor of the Houston, Pittsburgh, and London Symphony Orchestras and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Upon Previn's birth, her father wrote ''Lullaby On The Name of Claudia, Opus 170, No. 9a'', published in 1954 by Casa Ricordi and dedicated "to Claudia." The song ''Claudia'' was released again in 2021 in the ''Oldies Selection: Best of André Previn''. Previn is the stepdaughter of the late master jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe. Early life and education Previn grew up in Hollywood and attended Highland Hall Waldorf School and played guitar well by age 10.the She studied under her father as well. About musically instructing her at classical guitar and her younger sister on the violin, André Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dory Previn
Dorothy Veronica "Dory" Previn (née Langan; October 22, 1925 – February 14, 2012) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet. During the late 1950s and 1960s, Previn was a lyricist on songs intended for motion pictures and, with her then husband, André Previn, received several Academy Award nominations. In the 1970s, after their divorce, she released six albums of original songs and an acclaimed live album. Previn's lyrics from this period are characterized by their originality, irony and honesty in dealing with her troubled personal life as well as more generally about relationships, sexuality, religion and psychology. Until her death, she continued to work as a writer of song lyrics and prose. Biography Early years Previn was born in either Rahway or Woodbridge, New Jersey, and grew up in Woodbridge, the eldest daughter in a strict Catholic family of Irish origin. She had a troubled relationship with her father, especially during childhood. He had served in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soon-Yi Previn
Soon-Yi Previn (; born Oh Soon-hee, ; October 8, 1970) is the adopted daughter of actress Mia Farrow and musician André Previn. She is married to filmmaker Woody Allen, and the couple have two adopted children. According to Soon-Yi Previn and Allen, they began their relationship in 1991, when Previn was 21, several years after her mother had ended her romantic relationship with Woody Allen. In 1992, their relationship became news. Early life and education Soon-Yi Previn (original name Oh Soon-hee) was born in South Korea. She was allegedly found abandoned in Seoul on February 12, 1976, and placed temporarily in Maria's House, a local institution. When authorities failed to locate her parents or relatives, they placed her in St. Paul's Orphanage. The Seoul Family Court established a Family Census Register (legal birth document) on her behalf on December 28, 1976, with an official birth date of October 8, 1970. A bone scan at the time of her adoption put her age at between fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Farrow
Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow ( ; born February 9, 1945) is an American actress. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera ''Peyton Place (TV series), Peyton Place'' and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski's ''Rosemary's Baby (film), Rosemary's Baby'' (1968), saw her nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the 1970s, such as ''Follow Me! (1972 film), Follow Me!'' (1972), ''The Great Gatsby (1974 film), The Great Gatsby'' (1974), and ''Death on the Nile (1978 film), Death on the Nile'' (1978). Her younger sister is Prudence Farrow. Farrow was in a relationship with actor-director Woody Allen from 1980 to 1992 and appeared in thirteen of his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
