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...hear record company executives cheer. By Three Tenors standards, however, the couple's sales have disappointed. Alagna's label, EMI, is reluctant to disclose figures, but according to music retailer HMV, his best showing-an album of duets with Gheorghiu-sold no more than 70,000 copies in Britain. Critically overshadowed by his wife, Alagna and his voice seem to be showing the pressure. Says Rupert Christiansen, opera critic of Britain's Daily Telegraph, "He greedily clings to every top note and may now have permanently damaged his voice...
...painting's recent history is an apt parable of Russia's post-Soviet decade. In the early 1990s, seeking to burnish their image, the country's richest bankers turned to collecting art. "We encouraged them," says Georgi Nikich, a Moscow art critic who participated in Inkombank's acquisition of the Black Square. "Naively, we thought the works would be safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed...
...lifelong Bing Crosby fan, I found your review of Gary Giddins' new biography [BOOKS, Feb. 5] quite satisfying. Your critic says justice has been done to Bing at last. It's about time. Crosby was arguably this country's greatest all-around entertainer. He was certainly the most versatile...
Vaux is an outspoken critic of the CUE Guide's influence over a professors' reputation...
Mansfield is a long-time critic of affirmative action...