Never heard of him? Six months ago the 19-year-old invented Napster, the digital music download software that has turned the music recording world upside down. Now he finds himself at the middle of the music upheaval and he’s being sued by his favorite band. – The Observer (UK)
Tag: 05.21.00
ARCHETYPAL AMERICAN
Aaron Copland would have been 100 years old this year. “Listeners who think of Copland’s style as bland or ingratiating are relying on the faulty filtering of memory, compounded by an awareness of the composer’s famously warm and congenial personal demeanor.” – San Francisco Chronicle
STAGE REVIVAL
In the digital age, theatre seems so old-fashioned, so not of the future. But maybe we need it now more than ever. How did the art of theatre fall into such neglect? – The Observer (UK)
SEVENTY AND SAD
Stephen Sondheim is 70 this year and sounding a bit glum. His most recent project failed to get out of workshop and onto Broadway. But “his works constitute a show business force of nature, unmatched and unapproached in their ardor, stylistic variety, intelligence, complexity, thematic depth, wit and stirring expansiveness.” – San Francisco Chronicle