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Because they are highly visual, operas and ballets are naturals for DVD, but instrumental music is selling strongly too. "In today's times," says Dennis Hedlund, chairman of Kultur International Films, "because of TV, the computer, all the technology, people would rather see their favorite artists perform." What can be seen has grown more interesting as well. Many of the video releases of 20 or 30 years ago were shot with a single, fixed camera and suffered from grainy images and muddy sound. They were also more expensive than audio recordings. Today's DVDs--often drawn from elaborate television productions...
...producers shrink from a whopping price tag if the material is strong enough. Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, a series that was a milestone of cultural-TV programming between 1958 and 1973, has been released by Kultur as a nine-disc, 25-hr.-long set. Price: $149.95. It's selling "phenomenally," says Hedlund...
...Foreign Cultures 23: "Die Kultur Deutschlands: Bom Kaiserreich bis zur Nazizeit...
...think that people who took Fine Arts 13 did not have in mind their intellectual muscle," says Ackerman. "There was just a feeling that it was `kultur' with a capital...
...same folk who had their high kultur now also have their high news. It is drier, more civilized and urbane--it does not pander to the passions, but engages the intellect...