Word: emi
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...would do with his epic subject. I also was eager to see the production, since it was to be staged by Zhang Yimou, director of many sublime Chinese dramas, including Hero, the worldwide martial arts hit for which Tan Dun had supplied the music. Further, the costumes are by Emi Wada, who worked with Zhang on Hero and House of Flying Daggers. And even further, the opera is based on a 1996 Chinese movie, The Emperor's Shadow...
...former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. Sewall said that her fear of a nuclear war—a fear developed in college that she continued to “nurse”—served as her prime motivation to pursue a career in public policy. Emi Briggs ’08, who attended the event, praised Sewall’s speech. “It was nice to hear about development abroad, but also how to find your own niche too,” she said...
...soundtrack for this gritty drama, the Gallic version features "Pas Le Temps," a new theme song written and performed by French rapper Faf Larage, whose music video of the tune is now number one on the charts. Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution teamed up with M6 and EMI Music Publishing in France for the video, retail single and radio airplay. The idea was to give the American import a French flavor and help boost its profile, and it has clearly worked. "We knew Prison Break had a strong following and this part of the show lends itself to Larage...
...sales - and yet another cost fronted by the label. Now playing live is becoming increasingly lucrative for the artists, whether the labels get a piece of it or not. "We used to give artists tour support, then recoup it from their record sales," says David Munns, vice chairman of EMI Music. "It was all done in the name of promotion." Things are changing. The Kaiser Chiefs' manager, James Sandom, for example, predicts the band will make at least one-third of its revenue in the year ahead from live shows. "Increasingly, as you are selling less records for less money...
...EMI's publishing business also reaps rewards from the growing use of music in other media: advertising, films and TV soundtracks, electronic games and toys. EMI even has a contract with a pottery company that prints song lyrics onto coffee mugs. Nicoli is particularly keen on the future of wireless sales of digital music. Noting that MP3-player penetration is only around 15%, but "that nearly everyone has a mobile phone," he's excited by the prospect that half of all mobiles will be music-enabled within two years, and that the technology for wireless downloads of music is nearly...