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...Organization Woman-at least not with Period Records, where she worked writing album notes. Unable to persuade her bosses to record some far-out releases, such as medieval music or modern U.S. poetry ("Let's do medieval American poetry," burbled one executive), Marianne quit and formed Caedmon* Records to produce talking records that would not talk down to their audience. Her partner: Barbara Cohen, a classmate at New York City's Hunter College. Last week, eight years and some 200 releases later, the latest Caedmon albums were on sale: three Shakespeare dramas, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew...
...approached by sending him a note after a poetry reading ("We just signed our initials," recalls Marianne, "so he wouldn't know we were unbusinesslike females"). After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet's agreement, and the six records he turned out for Caedmon before his death have to date sold 400,000 LP copies in the U.S. and abroad...
...Caedmon's original investment, a $1,500 bank loan, grew into a million-dollar annual business run by a fulltime staff of eight. The firm's first employee-a shipping clerk who has since become one of the nation's most literate comedians, Mike Nichols-was eventually succeeded by a team that includes one of the best recording engineers in the field: Peter Bartok, the composer's son. The company's dramatic director is Poet-Playwright Howard Sackler, who says of his bosses: "They let you do just about anything you set your heart...
...Caedmon releases, Businesswoman Mantell estimates, have reached an audience of 2,000,000-many of them "people who haven't picked up a book of poetry since they left school. If a person is not a serious student, there is something about the printed page which separates him from poetry; recorded works bridge the gap. This is pretty reassuring at a time when so many are flagellating themselves with the failure of American culture...
FINNEGANS WAKE (Caedmon) has Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna mounting their bisexcycles and wheeling through Joyce's dream landscape with a flair and gusto few readers bring to the book. Cusack's ramble through "Shem the Penman." with its miragelike puns and softly melting sentences, is a triumph of rhythm, sound and suggestion...