Word: concert
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...blame inevitably finds its way to Gore, whose hand many see in virtually everything the FCC does. Its past chairman, Reed Hundt, goes back so far with Gore that the two of them saw the Beatles' first U.S. concert together. And Gore hand-picked its current chairman, William Kennard. Gore is also closely linked to the inner workings of the industry, where several of his former aides have found lucrative and powerful positions. Complains Louisiana Republican Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee: "The FCC is an independent regulatory authority, yet we continue to see the Vice President exercising...
...pair of Rat Pack movies are in the works (an HBO film starring Ray Liotta as Sinatra and a Martin Scorsese film about Dean Martin); and a few weeks ago, the cable channel TV Land drew its highest ratings to date with a never before broadcast Rat Pack concert from...
Outstanding Concert of the Year: HarvardRadcliffe Orchestra
...tradition of concert revivals--in which the principals wear evening clothes and hold the show's script in their hands, and a full orchestra saws away at the original orchestrations--is a distinguished one. Jerome Kern's 1985 centenary cued half a dozen glittery restorations. In London an ambitious series called Discover the Lost Musicals has flourished since 1988. The same year, Daykin produced concert versions of two Gershwin musicals, as well as an all-star tribute that featured a gnomic rendition of Soon by Bob Dylan. ("Did he hit even one right note?" Daykin asks today.) When she came...
...concert revival of a Broadway show? Easy enough--just get the sheet music, assemble an orchestra and cast, and start playing. Well, no. A 17th century Monteverdi opera has cleaner, fuller charts than many an old Broadway hit, whose arrangements might have ended up in the garage or garbage. The parts for the Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II Sweet Adeline, which was performed outdoors, had dead mosquitoes stuck to the pages. Says Daykin: "The musicians didn't know if it was a note or a dead...