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Swan and Wexler said they hoped that women who shy away from the label "feminist," associating it with more radical theories, would not become alienated...
DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER JOHN LA MONTAINE? In 1959 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Piano Concerto, Op. 9, and went on to a career as an unabashed writer of down-to-earth tonal music. Now the composer, 72, has issued several works on the Fredonia Discs label (3947 Fredonia Drive, Hollywood, California 90068) that ought to trigger a reappraisal. Wilderness Journal, a symphony for bass- baritone (the late Donald Gramm), organ and orchestra (the National Symphony), on texts by Thoreau, surges and soars, while The Nine Lessons of Christmas lyrically transcends its seasonal origins. And La Montaine the virtuoso...
That tougher scrutiny has now sidelined Ice-T himself. Last week Warner Bros. said he had agreed to leave the label because of "creative differences." By all accounts, the dispute centered on the cover art for the album Home Invasion, which Ice-T was scheduled to release in March. The cover Ice-T proposed reportedly showed a white teen listening to music on headphones and imagining black men attacking whites. Warner Bros. preferred a plain, solid-blue cover with only the album's title...
Warner's decision may be a temporary setback for artistic freedom, but probably not for Ice-T's pocketbook. He'll find another label for the album, and industry sources expect him to pull down a higher royalty rate than he got under his Warner contract...
...wall label that prepares the eager visitor for the X-rated room in which these tidbits are displayed, the museum points out that "the artist and his wife function in a manner not unlike the vacuum cleaners," which is true, though not perhaps as meant. The text compares the "shocking" character of Made in Heaven to other once shocking works of the past, such as Courbet's Burial at Ornans, Matisse's Woman with the Hat and Manet's Olympia. And yet it adds, "All this is not to say that Koons' art is equivalent to the greatest work...