Andre Watts  October 24, 1999|By Cheryl Lavin.  Birthday: June
20, 1946.  Birthplace: Nuremberg, Germany.  Occupation: Pianist.
Current home: Rockland County, N.Y.  Marital status: Married to
Joan Brand.  Car: A Lexus.  Working on: Tchaikovsky's Piano
Concerto No. 1, which I will perform with members of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2 at Orchestra Hall in
Symphony Center, to benefit the Jewish Community Centers of
Chicago.  The last good movie I saw: "Elizabeth."  The books
I've been reading: "The Undertaking" by Thomas Lynch (Norton),
"The Wheel of Life" by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Touchstone,
paperback) and "The Hand" by Frank R. Wilson (Vintage,
paperback).  Favorite performers: Feodor Chaliapin, Josef
Hofmann and Oscar Peterson.  Prized possession: Hopefully I'm
making enough progress in my spiritual development that I don't
have an answer to that.  People always think I'm: Modest and
humble because I speak so often about how much luck has played a
part in my career. I simply believe I'm