This is what they showed last night in memoriam on TV:
It’s not the late Andre but the very-much-alive Leonard Slatkin, 75 and going strong.
Can’t the music biz get anything right?
The clip is at 1:00 on video.
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Because it isn’t the music biz, it’s the Emmy’s (TV)
Shall I remind them who Previn was?
It’s in English…
https://basiaconfuoco.com/2018/11/22/a-streetcar-named-desire-twenty-years-after-its-premiere/
Not surprising
But, at least, the Academy sure is woke. And, according to the awards and the speeches last night, that’s all that matters.
Wait. You mean that isn’t Andre Previn?
They’re showing all the right Andre Previn photos. But not necessarily in the right order! 🙂
As they say, red faces all round!
That’s OK — sometimes it’s fun to snicker at idiots. Good comic relief.
Hey, both are American, conductors, pianists, composers and have a direct link with Hollywood. Surely that’s close enough? Their names aren’t even close!
Imagine the furore if they’d confused Renee Zellwegger with Rene Russo!
lol
Neanderthals.
Who cares? The show must go on: the ersatz royalty is too busy congratulating itself. One could safely assume that when one asked any of those present whether she/he/it knew Andre Previn, they’d look aghast and say: “Idunno. Andre who?” We amuse ourselves to death (Neil Postman).
Great book, scary too, by Postman
That book gets scarier and more prescient each day. Much like 1984.
Prev-in, Slatk-in. Almost the same.
The oddity is that Andre Previn did more than his share of American commercial network television work in his jazz piano phase and one would think the archives of that industry would be bulging with PR and performance photos of him (You Tube has a nice excerpt of a Dinah Shore show featuring him).
At least they didn’t confuse him with Eric Morecambe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMPEUcVyJsc
Didn’t they confuse Aretha Franklin and Patti La Belle last year?
Un(under)paid interns Googling carelessly. “It’s like, ya know, all these ol’ dudes look alike, all white hair an’ wrinkles n’ stuff…. Like whatEVer!!”
Slatkin is of course still alive and well and just passed his 75th birthday. He opened the Houston Symphony’s season a couple weeks ago, and now he’s conducting in Ireland. So there, Emmys, take that!
He’s Tweeting periodically, too – @LeonardSlatkin
It was in keeping with how terrible and unsynched the music was…having a DJ just spin tunes rather than any live group actually playing cues or bumpers. Really cheap sounding.
Mr Slatkin tweeted:
<I saw that @theemmys posted a photo of me "In Memoriam" rather than the intended Andre Previn. Andre deserved better. I had the opportunity to introduce him when he received the @KCHonors. Perhaps he was paying me back for a couple stories I told about him. Andre, R.I.P.
I was watching this bit and I thought, what the? Listen up; nobody at the Emms is an intellectual giant or even the sharpest tools in the shed. They are just PC robots these days. Their ‘winners’ are soooooo predictable, mostly all based on skin colour. Zzzzzz
Of course by eagerly and attentively watching supposedly dumb PC tools on TV, you feel like an intellectual giant yourself …
“Can’t the music biz get anything right?”
When my friend Andrew Kazdin, long-time producer for CBS/Sony, died, you (Norman Lebrecht) illustrated his obit here on SlippeDisc with a photo of Robert Moog—apparently grabbed from a Google image search because Kazdin had co-created and performed several albums on the Moog synthesizer. I sent you a photo of Kazdin that you swapped in.
Unlike the Emmys, your blog *is* part of the “music biz.” Perhaps you should be more forgiving of others’ lapses.