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...success with Resistance, Pierce has some qualms. Not about the lyrics calling for killing blacks and gassing Jews--he's fine with that. But Pierce, who listens to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, knows that by selling rock he is further exposing white youth to what he regards as "black music." Rock 'n' roll has black roots, he says, and it was Elvis Presley and "the media" who brought it into the white mainstream...
...Aryan" regime, anticipates a day when Resistance Records' music will fade away. "I don't know who will end up being the Minister of Culture after the revolution," he says. "But I would hope we would salvage the best of our European traditions." In other words, cue up the Beethoven...
...left ear and can hear only slightly with the help of a hearing aid in his right. His condition has brought him a certain celebrity, which he fears may detract from an honest critique of his work. He understands the inspirational appeal of the story of a digital-age Beethoven, a deaf composer who overcomes the loss of the sense most vital to his work. "I used to be able to hide it, to do my work without people noticing it," he says...
What juggernaut could possibly have kept P. Diddy's The Saga Continues out of Billboard's top album slot this week? The answer is ALICIA KEYS, 20, whose Songs in A Minor is the musical surprise of the summer. Keys, a classically trained pianist, describes her sound as "Beethoven meets Wu-Tang, with a lot of soul." Besides reaching record buyers, she also grabbed Prince's attention with a cover of his B-side chestnut How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? "He invited me down to perform at this festival he just finished putting on in Minneapolis," says...
...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...