What is the nationality of the Oscar and Grammy award winning composer of "Honey and Rue"?
Honey and Rue Honey and Rue is a song cycle composed by Oscar and Grammy award winner André Previn and premiered by Kathleen Battle, with words from poems by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. It is scored for a solo soprano and small orchestra and is influenced by the rhythms of jazz, blues and American spirituals. The "New York Times" termed the composition "a model of understated luxury, rich and plastic without the need of ornament".
Laurie Johnson Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson MBE (born 7 February 1927) is an English composer and bandleader who has written scores for dozens of film and television series and has been one of the most highly regarded arrangers of instrumental pop and swing music since in the 1950s with works often serving as stock production music.