Word: weill
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...marathon secret negotiations started in April with a visit by Alleghany Corp. Chairman Fred Kirby II to American Express at the invitation of Chairman James Robinson 3rd and President Sanford Weill. The talks progressed into July and were partly conducted by radio telephone between Kirby's isolated summer retreat in the Adirondacks and American Express headquarters in Manhattan. At one point, Kirby used a pay phone in a country hotel to call Weill, who told the Alleghany boss he was not "going to negotiate a billion-dollar deal on the telephone." Thus the executives met face-to-face...
Today Blitzstein's work can be seen as period agitprop, analogous to Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. It is colored with the lyric causticity of the Brecht-Weill collaborations. Yet it is always a mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy...
...singers perform zestfully, even when Sellars requires the principals to sing lying on the floor, as if they were practicing some new kind of aerobic exercise for the vocal cords. Instead of reinforcing the staging, or indeed placing it in the kind of paradoxical context limned by Brecht and Weill, this straightforward musicality puts the brakes on the rambunctious staging. The rhythms of the songs and the pace of the action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient...
Competitors are having a hard time catching up with Merrill Lynch. Shearson/American Express has attracted only 25,000 customers for its version of the money-management account (annual fee: $100), which includes use of an American Express Gold Card. Says Chairman Sanford Weill: "I think it's the best account of its type, but there are 500,000 customers who have not followed...
...Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg's thorny Lulu, Kurt Weill's sardonic Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the ebullient French triple bill Parade. In standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used the latest scholarship to offer versions that are as musicologically accurate as possible...