Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will make an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” tonight, a rare confluence of pop culture and the higher arts. (This type of thing used to happen all the time in the good old days of Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett.)
I’m not quite certain of the details. I read somewhere that she will play something by Gershwin, with her ex-husband Andre Previn accompanying her at the piano. Her performance will presumably come at the end of the show and I would doubt that Letterman will sit her down for an interview, which is too bad because she’s a lively one and a knockout.
photo: harold hoffmann/deutsche grammophon
UPDATE: See video of her appearance here
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She was wonderful! I would like to know what she played. It sounded like a mix of St. Louis blues and classical
She played “It aint necessarily so” – a transcription by Jascha Heifetz of George Gershwin’s original tune from “Porgy and Bess”.
That photo of Ms. Mutter makes me think of — or makes her look sort of like — Lisa Marie Presley.