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