Why Andre Previn left LA and wouldn't set foot in the city for decades
by Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times
Mar 01, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - When Andre Previn died Thursday, tributes recalled his remarkable life as an internationally renowned orchestra conductor and four-time Academy Award-winning composer, but one detail in his obituary no doubt raised a question for many: Why in the 1990s did Previn vow never to step foot in Los Angeles again?
The events surrounding Previn's resignation as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1989 were so troubling for the conductor that he did
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