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...enough to make you think the era of pay-to-play music downloading has finally dawned. Spurred on by the MusicNet deal, Sony and Vivendi Universal hastily announced that their licensing service, known as Duet, had found its first customer in the shape of Yahoo. MTV.com said it had done its own deal with all five major labels. And Microsoft hopped on the bandwagon with the radio-style site MSN Music. Result: in just one week "the landscape changed 100%," says Eric Scheirer, digital-music analyst at Forrester Research...
...process so seamless that you won't mind paying for it monthly. The nightmare scenario: a poor selection of music in confusing and conflicting file formats that will drive you underground to a Napster clone like Aimster. So every portal needs to do a deal with MusicNet and Duet--at the very least. "None of these services can survive without content from all five major labels," says Dannielle Romano, music analyst at Jupiter Media Metrix. Not to mention the hundreds of independent labels they'll need licenses from...
...same status as radio stations, which pay royalty fees for playing music. Says Barry: "It's government intervention. It's not my first choice. But collecting licenses [in the open market] is not just painful, it's impossible." If AOL and Yahoo start feeling his pain once MusicNet and Duet kick in this summer, you may see a lot more rockers singing the Senate blues...
...Waterhouse and Yamaguchi invigorated the paus-duex by straining to appear aloof but constantly remaining interconnected. The pair was visually linked through their reciprocal blue and black tops and bottoms, but battled to balance this connection with the aloof music of Mozart. The resulting tension reinterpreted the traditional love duet, making it contemporary and exciting...
This is not to say that the performance was unflawed. Conductor Sebastian Weigle’s brisk tempi proved a mixed blessing. While the overture exuded an almost electric energy, other numbers seemed slightly rushed. Tamino and Pamina’s Act II duet could have luxuriated longer in its loving lyricism, and Weigle’s charge into part two of the Queen of the Night’s big first act aria was a bit too fast for soprano Mary Dunleavy, resulting in an awkward adjustment as her coloratura fireworks begin. Nor was Dunleavy vocally perfect...