What a total treat, Mark, to hear Ella sing “Like Young.” I’m suddenly feeling more awake and alive. I’ll supply an interesting fact: When Previn recorded “Like Young” in 1959, the birth of his fifth wife, Anne-Sophie Mutter, was four years off. I saw Previn last season, looking incredibly gnomish and barely ambulatory. He shuffled on and off the stage at a pace that would make Montgomery Burns look like Carl Lewis in his prime. Yet he was still the coolest man alive. I look forward to seeing who he’ll marry next. (Sorry, it was just way too stiff to say “whom.”) Miley Cyrus?

P.S. I, needless to say, had never heard “Like Young” — or heard of it. It’s easy to forget that Previn had already had a big, full career when he “went classical.” Obscenely talented. How many more like him were murdered in the ovens? He got out while the getting was good — 1938, when he was eight or nine. Went to Hollywood. I could go on, but I have already “brought the room down,” for sure.

P.P.S. His parents named him for Beethoven — his middle name (real middle name, not the English one he adopted later) is Ludwig. (Given first name is Andreas.) (Original last name is Priwin.)