I asked Learsfool what did he think of Andre Previn as a classical musician, and he hadn't heard any classical music by Previn; I looked but failed, and I responded.
I have jazz by Andre Previn, and I tried to find some classical music by him, but this is all I found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEuR2TtW5cMaybe you could find some classical music by him and paste it so we can hear it. Or any classical you like best.
learsfool
1,167 posts
03-20-2016 1:45am
Orpheus, in the classical world, Andre Previn is mainly known as a conductor, though he did write a few pieces. He also wrote a few film scores. I don't think I have ever even heard any of his classical compositions, let alone played them. Certainly they are not performed very often, especially if he is not conducting them. His recordings I have heard where he is a conductor did not particularly impress me. Not saying they are not good, just that there are much better conductors.
Learsfool, this is the classical Andre Previn; could you give a critique?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvU5OGdVFNcEnjoy the music.
Frogman chimed in a conversation that didn't involve him one way or the other, and this is what he said;
frogman
2,654 posts
03-20-2016 9:08am
I would add that the posted Previn link is not "classical" music at all. It is Previn playing a twelve bar blues with orchestra sweetening. Previn is a wonderful musician, but this is pretty bland stuff; taking into account the differences in genres, no better than what one hears from Kenny G in an elevator. Just because it is played by an orchestra does not make it
"classical". O-10, what do you think of this?:
Now why would I think "Like Young", my favorite piece by Andre Previn since 1959, to be classical music?
Frogman, I never said it was classical, I would have to be a MOWRON to think that was classical music. I stated this was all I could find by Previn , and I asked Learsfool to find some classical music.
remember that word that you used, with unfounded indignation, describing what you thought I (and another esteemed aficionado who I will not include in this bs) felt that you were? You know.....that word that rhymes with "boron"? I am saddened to have to report that I believe you were correct in using that word.
Now Frogman is saying that "Learsfool", that's the esteemed aficionado he's referring to, thought I was a MOWRON. Learsfool never made any such statement in a conversation that Frogman had no business commenting on what so ever; the conversation was between Learsfool and I.
Enjoy the Frogman.