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...there is only so much cost cutting can get you," warns Michael Nathanson, European media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. EMI needs to sell more CDs. And that means finding global superstars. To accomplish that, EMI will have to improve its talent-spotting operations in America, where its market share is a puny 10%. The U.S. is the world?s biggest music market and it?s impossible to create world megastars with poor sales there. Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Beilby doubts if any of the five major music companies are willing to invest the time and money needed...
...Lifschitz released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the age of 16, he drew comparisons with the great Glenn Gould. One could also make an association with Gould based on his Brahms performance: both pianists took the work at almost unbearably slow tempi. Unlike Leonard Bernstein, who performed the work with Gould in 1962, James Bolle did not preface the performance with a disclaimer on artistic differences. The first movement was too long, aimless and lacking in a sense of overarching structure, as every quarter-note beat was pounded out. Lifschitz succeeded much better...
...author of such novels as The Emigrants and the just published Austerlitz, about a boy raised by Christians during World War II who later discovers that he is Jewish, Sebald wove intricate, shifting narratives often described as historic metaphors. In praising his work, Los Angeles Times critic Michael Andre Bernstein wrote, "History is a nightmare into which Sebald's characters and his books as a whole are trying to awaken...
Past recipients of the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry have included such luminary figures as Leonard Bernstein ’39, Jorge Luis Borges, e.e. cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10, Robert Frost, Frank Stella and Igor Stravinsky. Musicologist Joseph Kerman was the most recent Norton professor, serving for the 1997-1998 academic year...
...people are going to the theater, but they are not planning ahead--a potentially fatal blow to shows that depend on hefty spring sales to get through the slow winter months. And the outlook for future productions is dicey. "What investors are asking themselves," says Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, "is, If Broadway is already at the high-risk end of the investment scale, do I really want to introduce a new show into an uncertain environment? We may be seeing the effects one, two, three years down the road...