Word: aitkens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before finding his calling as an agent. In 1980 he signed up author I.F. Stone after singing Homeric verse to him on the phone -- in Greek, of course. (Wylie later handled Stone's unlikely 1988 best seller, The Trial of Socrates.) Three years ago, Wylie persuaded British agents Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone to form a partnership. Wylie has brought Susan Sontag and other distinguished authors to the firm, yet many of the big names on his list are either one-shot autobiographers or recruits from his London partners...
...Britpop is lighthearted and featherweight. The producers Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman run a kind of pop-star atelier in South London, where "we have pretty much a hard and fast rule that no one we work with is over 25. There are too many aging rockers hanging on to the charts." Actually, it was SA&W that had a stranglehold on the English charts for most of 1987. The production team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says...
...sister, Annie-Laurie "Ala" von Auersperg Kneissl, Mrs. von Bulow's children by a previous marriage, have fought von Bulow's efforts to reinstate Cosima von Bulow's claim to her share of the $50 million estate left by Mrs. von Bulow's mother, the late Annie Laurie Crawford Aitken...
Before Mrs. Aitken's death--and before the 1985 retrial of von Bulow that ended in his acquittal--she disinherited Miss von Bulow because her granddaughter stood by her father during his four-year ordeal...
During one five-week period last winter, the Philadelphia Orchestra offered the world premieres of challenging concertos by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Richard Wernick. In New York City in February, Elmar Oliveira gave the first performance of a lyrical new work by Hugh Aitken, while in Montreal, Stern contributed the North American premiere of French Composer Henri Dutilleux's impressionistic concerto. The same month Virtuoso Shlomo Mintz played Marc Neikrug's neoromantic concerto for the second time, having presented its world premiere in 1984. And this week Sergiu Luca will give the American premiere of William Bolcom's frisky new concerto...