Denis Fodor wrote:

>Anyway, the fault was surely not with Previn who revealed himslef as
>a no-nonsense conductor of the old (German) school, very demanding in
>rehearsal and implacabale in determination.  Moreover, he expressed his
>orders clearly in native-sounding (north-) German.

His father had been a lawyer in Berlin.  A good friend of my parents who
became a good friend of my wife and me had been his secretary.  She told
us she had seen the future conductor when he was a baby.

Walter Meyer