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...room. Like computers, televisions should be where parents can at least tell if they are being used. Even those parents who choose not to monitor their kids' viewing (half the parents surveyed had no rules about TV) should at least know if the set is on. The data from this study show that television viewing is becoming an increasingly private, isolating activity, with homes having on average three TVs. Because of this, parents should develop some basic guidelines for family media...
...limited-edition The Rubinstein Collection (list price: $1,600) is perhaps the biggest box set ever devoted to a single artist. It contains 706 recordings made between 1928 and 1976, including most of the music of Chopin, three versions of the complete Beethoven piano concertos and plenty of chamber music, plus a 305-page booklet full of adoring essays by admiring colleagues, critics and relatives...
Though avid fans with cash to spare will want to spring for the full set, others interested in hearing a major artist at the peak of his powers should stand by for the release of individual volumes, starting next year. The bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...
...repertory includes two Balanchine miniatures custom-made for Farrell in her glory days--Tzigane, a smoldering piece of Gypsy fireworks set to the music of Ravel; and Meditation, the haunting Tchaikovsky pas de deux that Balanchine choreographed for Farrell and Jacques d'Amboise in 1963. Until now, no other woman has ever danced Meditation, to which Balanchine gave Farrell all rights...
DIED. ALEXANDER LIBERMAN, 87, artist and iconic Conde Nast editorial director who set the style and tone for Vogue and Vanity Fair--and inspired the industry to treat magazines as minor cultural jewels; in Miami. His Expressionist work appeared in the Whitney and Guggenheim museums...