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Richard Sanders, executive vice president and general manager of RCA Records, caught on early to what he calls the "emotional connection" Aiken forged with the Idol audience, and he decided that regardless of who won on the show, RCA was going to sign Aiken. (In a deal struck with the...
Many members of the RCA staff are fond of Aiken, if not his music, and are willing to go along with Sanders. But a healthy minority have curiously deep reservoirs of disdain for the Idol industry. One RCA executive, who insisted on anonymity, cited Idol as proof that "Americans have...
Ennis and 19 have market research on their side. As Davis suggests, avid music fans expect their stars to evolve. But the Idol audience, which has an unprecedented ownership stake in Aiken's career, is not made up of avid music fans. A disproportionate number of copies of This Is...
Of course, anticipating the tastes of the public--knowing that the world might be ready for a black woman to sing about respect, for example--is exactly what great creative executives do. They don't make art, but they facilitate it, fight for it and nurture it, often in the...
Sanders Theater presents the Boston Philharmonic, conducted by Benjamin Zander, with the first symphony composed by Gustav Mahler. It promises to be quite an enchanting journey as the concert features his great “Blumine” and “Songs of a Wayfarer.” 3pm...