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Nifty Souvenir: Almost any souvenir is a good souvenir here. Nothing beats that nostalgic feeling that comes from spotting merchandise from your favorite childhood movie, such as the CD from Universal's hit movie "Back to the Future." They've got a wide array of merchandise from all sorts of entertainment, including new movies, old movies, classic movies and new shows, reruns and canceleds...
Never mind that Kaplan's invitation had come directly from Hans Landesmann, who oversees the festival's symphonic programming. Never mind that BMG's Conifer Classics will issue a September release in the U.S. of The Kaplan Mahler Edition, a double CD that includes Kaplan's best-selling recording of the Resurrection Symphony; the Mahler Piano Rolls; and recollections of Mahler by his contemporaries, as well as a CD-ROM component that features photos from Kaplan's book The Mahler Album...
...marketing maze of summer media, but there was something less driven about her latest release, something that sounded less driven and more, well, produced. Calculated. Chapman's latest release sounds like her first one, put through a blender to average the overall "Chapman sound," and then poured into a CD mold. The problem is, generic Tracy isn't Tracy at all. One of the things that made her earlier albums so compelling was their inconsistencies, the exquisitely different points they were able to access, like so many different facets on a diamond pressurized into shape by the urgency of honest...
There's a thin, hard-to-find line between representing one's community and exploiting it. The rapper Nas is, more often than not, on the righteous side of the line. His chart-topping new CD, It Was Written, his second, is full of violent episodes and sometimes needlessly rough language, but, Nas insists, "I'm not a gangsta rapper." And he isn't. Nas, who hails from New York City's Queensbridge housing projects, is clearly saddened and outraged by the violence he sees around him, and he's out to create songs that are more than cathartic cartoons...
While Weir and Hart tour, former Dead bassist Phil Lesh is mixing a three-CD album of concerts taped in 1990. Lesh also says there are 12 new Dead songs, available in either rehearsal or incomplete studio versions, which may be released soon. A reunion of the remaining members is always a possibility. Says Lesh: "We will play together in some form, but nobody knows when." Except, perhaps, for Jerry. --C.J.F. Reported by Greg Fulton/Atlanta and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles