MUSIC

Andre Previn travels to Vienna and Hong Kong this month. The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director conducts his orchestra’s Pension Fund benefit Tuesday night in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (when Itzhak Perlman is soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto), then takes the red-eye to Austria. In Vienna, Wednesday through Saturday, Previn will rehearse the Vienna Philharmonic in preparation for the orchestra’s engagement at the Hong Kong Festival, Feb. 15-22. In Hong Kong--the Vienna Philharmonic is the only orchestra playing at the 1989 festival--Previn will lead the orchestra in four programs, including Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies, Dvorak’s Eighth (which he leads here, Tuesday) and other works by Mozart, Brahms, J. and R. Strauss and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104. Previn returns to Los Angeles Feb. 25, and will conduct his next L.A. Philharmonic concert on March 3.