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...Another candidate-José Cura, a moodily good-looking Argentinian who is a Domingo protégé and Warner Music's great hope-may have taken himself out of contention. His is a warm, dramatic voice, but the New York Times castigated his "crude musicianship." Stunts like Cura's 1999 Royal Festival Hall recital, when he conducted his own arias, have led to a reputation for egotism and headlines like "the Ego Has Landed" (The Independent on his "posturing" London Otello). Cura now says he is "a serious artist, not interested in marketing clichés like who will...
...year than in years past, and one of course can't help notice that many companies from all different industries and regions are laying off employees. The thing is, a dot-com firing 200 employees, an auto maker closing one plant and a newly-merged company like AOL Time Warner eliminating 1,200 redundant accountants and secretaries does not add up to a job market like that of the early '90s, when millions of jobs were lost every year. As it stands, the economy is currently adding 150,000 jobs a month, which is a slower pace than in years...
...There's even been talk of AOL-Time Warner buying Aimster, which would really break this thing open. Because nobody's going to take on AOL. [Note: As the parent of TIME.com, AOL Time Warner owns this article.] Realistically, technology is going to find a way to stay ahead - the RIAA is never going to be able to stop this from their end. You can't encrypt sound...
Napster has been meeting with the big labels steadily, but except for the deal with Bertelsmann, it has not yet got to yes. Richard Parsons, co-chief operating officer of AOL Time Warner, a major music distributor (and parent company of TIME), told reporters earlier this month that he had yet to see an acceptable business model from Napster...
...crowd at the Warner party skewed a little older than the brasher EMI contingent, and seemed less dressed-down, which is nearly as good as being more dressed-up. In the music industry it is apparently a sign of caring too much if one is too well-dressed for an important occasion. Wandering around I bumped into Paul Simon, who was looking most casual both sartorially and in terms of his entourage, which was almost nonexistent...