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...chubby girl with the baby face so impressed the late maestro Herbert von Karajan that he described her talent as a "miracle." Thirteen years after her concert debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, wunderkind ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER is still wunderbar. At 27 she has matured into one of the world's finest violinists. On a demanding schedule, she has already played her way around the globe this year, traveling with her two prized Stradivarius violins, her bow and her signature strapless designer dresses...
...parts build with inevitable force to form coherent, if sometimes debatable, interpretations. The digital remastering is admirable, though limited dynamic range and parched sound can yield lusterless strings and tinny horns. The informed listener will find this offering indispensable, but those beginning a music library should try the safer Herbert von Karajan or Roger Norrington sets...
...City business community, announced that its July issue would be the last. The magazine and its top editor will be subsumed by Fairchild Publications' M, a clothes-conscious men's periodical. The new title: M inc. Manhattan, inc. lost more than $8 million over six years, says publisher D. Herbert Lipson. Its ad base was crippled when New York's financial and real estate markets went dry. The 1987 stock-market crash stole the magazine's indispensable asset: high-flying Wall Street targets to shoot down. The magazine also lost some of its edge when founding editor Jane Amsterdam...
Only three other senators--Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.), David L. Boren (D-Okla.) and Robert Packwood (R-Ore.)--have chosen to forsake PAC money completely, said Common Cause lobbyist Randy Huwa...
...show's most thrilling back-to-the-future revelations are the posters and advertisements and magazine layouts from the '30s, '40s and '50s that look contemporary. Lester Beall's Depression-era posters for the Rural Electrification Administration are spare and abstract and unsentimental, the perfect brainy New Deal agitprop. Herbert Bayer's virtuoso, typography-driven ads for the Container Corp. of America from the '50s and '60s look like avant- garde work from the late...