André Previn

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996 by BBC

Aug 18, 199637:09Society & Culture

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the composer and conductor André Previn. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he and his family fled from Nazi Germany and ended up in California. His skill as a jazz...

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