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Sony has released a new recording in its "Artist Laureate" series, this time featuring its premier chamber group--the quartet composed of violinist Isaac Stern, violist Jaime Laredo, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emmanuel Ax. This recording contrasts the piano quartets of Beethoven and Schumann, embracing both the Classical and Romantic periods in music...
...financial clout and big-name draws, it has championed several relatively unknown ensembles which can outplay the competition, big label or not. A good example is the Brahms piano quartet cycle recorded by Domus, which outshines Sony's offering with a super-powerhouse lineup of Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel...
...hour documentary series on the Old West, due in 1996. Lonesome Dove, meanwhile, has spawned one TV sequel, Return to Lonesome Dove (airing on CBS over three nights next week), and the promise of a second, based on McMurtry's own (and very different) follow-up, Streets of Laredo, published last summer...
Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot may be reluctant to acknowledge it, but the U.S.-Mexican border is already wide open to trade and likely to remain so whether the North American Free Trade Agreement passes Congress or not. In Laredo, Texas, last week 18-wheelers thundered back and forth on I-35, hauling American-made computers, machine tools and other goods to Mexico and bringing back Mexican-produced TVs, beer and foodstuffs. At the same time, Mexican shoppers streamed across the Rio Grande to splurge at Laredo's glittering Mall Del Norte, where retailers such as Sears...
...perhaps just sunset through the dust thrown up by the hooves of horses and cattle -- surrounds the two books. This is not just legend mongering, although the author mongers better than most. The second novel is the lesser; no more, really, than a respectful conclusion. But in Streets of Laredo, as in Lonesome Dove, McMurtry plays fair. Evil is evil, death is death. Gone is gone. And though it is far more frightening, he manages to look...