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...Gregory Benton creates a credible New York during the last days of Earth. Gigantic floods aren't enough to make some people move: they still buy toilet paper and pull giant worms off each other. Other contributors (there are over 25) only tangentially refer to space. Mark Burriur's "Piano Music" tells of a lonely piano teacher and the painting of outer space that distracts a talentless student. With an excellent variety of stories that go from cute to existential, editor and designer Chris Pitzer has put together one of the best-looking and best reading anthologies of the year...
...Time has chosen three new sensations from the current crop: twentysomethings with the interpretive insight, technique and, yes, charisma to sell records for the next 50 years - and become truly great artists along the way. Lang Lang, 21, China. Lang Lang plays table football the same way he plays piano: irrepressibly. He spins his players upside down in absurdly impossible acrobatics, the ball shoots everywhere, occasionally leaving the table altogether and hitting passers-by on the head. At this year's Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where audiences and performers mingle in the local bars, I found myself facing off against...
...cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece written in 1888 by French composer Erik Satie ... Mann's flute is a sparrow in the treetops, lightly flitting and chirping above a heavy, sensuous beat laid down by the rhythm section ... Mann plays with eyes closed, standing disjointedly and undulating as if to entwine himself around the microphone ... [Says...
...reaction to the existing run-down art-house scene, a way to bring films in their original languages to Paris neighborhoods." Today, an average of 82,000 Parisians visit an MK2 outlet each week. MK2 also produces and distributes films, championing filmmakers like German-born Austrian Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher) and the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (the Three Colors trilogy: Blue, White and Red). MK2 also produces DVDs of the oeuvres of veterans like Chabrol and Resnais, with comprehensive bonus features, for international distribution. The schedules for each cinema are tailored to its neighborhood, with individual managers selecting...
...expected to yield several intriguing collaboration albums in addition to the superorchestra. Engstroem's DG label, unsurprisingly, will produce many of them. DG has already released, to critical and commercial success, the first collaboration of Argerich, Maisky and Kremer in Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky trios. Coming soon is the Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor, featuring the same performers plus Bashmet. Engstroem expects the big-name collaborations to keep the CDs selling for years to come. At a time when the classical-music industry faces a glut of recordings in the core repertoire, the Verbier alchemy can produce gold...