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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merely for commercial success by retaining the same formula of Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink. Instead, Boys for Pele charts her efforts at redefining herself following her break up with her manager Eric Rosse after an eight-year relationship. At the same time, she explores on the CD's 18 tracks a variety of new techniques and forms...
...giddy sales numbers don't exhaust the good news. Cars are so complex and expensive to build these days, in part because of the demands of fuel economy, that there is not much profit left except in the luxury models. Trucks and truckoids, even with the power windows, CD players and pleated leather seats that suburban buyers are asking for, are still simple enough, many with rear-wheel drive and huge, iron power plants outmoded 20 years ago, to return $4,000 to $6,000 in profit per vehicle. And so far, buyers have absorbed sizable price rises--for pickups...
...eight-CD project on the Pearl label called Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era aims to change that. So too does a contemporary pianist named Peter Mintun, who is working to restore novelty piano to its rightful place in the history of our popular culture. He recently opened a four-month engagement playing novelty compositions and pop classics at the posh Carlyle Hotel in New York City...
Overseeing the Pearl series is music historian Artis Wodehouse, whose Gershwin Plays Gershwin album won raves when it came out in 1994. For that CD, Wodehouse rerecorded Gershwin's piano-roll performances by playing them on a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of computer-driven player piano. The Pearl set is based on actual historic recordings--78s, Edison 80s, radio-broadcast acetates. Wodehouse painstakingly tracked them down around the country and cleaned them up for modern ears. "It's a shame that they got lost in the shuffle," says Wodehouse. "But great pop music comes back, and that is what...
Every two seconds, BETA captures enough data to fill a CD-ROM, which adds up to roughly 22 million megabytes of data per day--an overwhelming volume far beyond human capacity to comprehend and evaluate. For that reason, the incoming radio waves are digitized and read into a custom-made, homegrown supercomputer, designed and assembled by Horowitz and his students, that sorts through the input and discards cosmic radio "noise...