Word: lp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...studio sessions were portraits of a young man in a hurry. The first album was a fairly traditional folk album, with only two original songs; its main provocation would have been to Mitch Miller, whose easy-listening aesthetic was violated by Dylan's rasp and snarl. The second LP, The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, showed his instant, astonishing blossoming as a songwriter, with "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall" and "Don;t Think Twice, It's All Right" (wow!), and his voice got stronger, more assertive, as if he was ready to fill...
...young Dylan's original repertoire was particularly strong on civil rights. He could have filled a LP side with songs decrying the injustices done to black Americans: "Oxford Town" (about the shooting of Medgar Evers), "The Ballad of Hollis Brown", "Who Killed Davey Moore?" and "The Death of Emmett Till" ("This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man / That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan...
Poking fun at corny old musicals is such a corny old device by now that your defenses are up from the outset of this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Sutton Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does...
Former HMC chief Jack R. Meyer took more than 30 employees with him when he left in September after 15 years at the helm to start hedge fund Convexity Capital Management LP...
...reinvent” HMC. Marc Seidner, director of active core strategies at Standish Mellon Asset Management, will join HMC as vice president for domestic fixed income. The move comes after the departure of top bond managers Maurice Samuels and David R. Mittelman to Convexity Capital Management LP, leaving a vacuum in HMC’s bond divison. Seidner is the second executive to join HMC from Standish Mellon—Jennifer Pline joined last September from the firm as vice president of trusts. Kathryn I. Murtagh, a partner at law firm Goodwin Proctor LLP, will assume the newly-created position...