“If approved by the EU competition authorities, the deal would make Universal, already the world’s largest record company, the industry’s biggest music publisher as well, ahead of EMI and Warner Music.”
Tag: 09.06.06
Charles Saatchi On Collecting
“I like to show off. I always buy art with the idea that I’m going to show it. Before, I was always mouthing off about how there aren’t enough collectors. Now there are just too many. They’re all very young and very rich, and they all like to collect art the way they buy their funds.”
How Libraries Could Reassert Themselves?
“Google does not have to eliminate the market in printed books to make this impossible. It merely has to shrink it so much that the price of books goes right down again. If no one gets paid for writing books, fewer will be written, which may not be an unmixed catastrophe, but very much fewer really good ones will be written. The only way out of this, it seems to me, is for libraries to pay for the right to distribute electronic texts.”
Director Walks Out Of Production
Opera director Christoph Loy shows up to first rehearsal of London’s Royal Opera House production of Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera”, then walks off the project, disappearing…
Director Walks Out Of Production
Opera director Christoph Loy shows up to first rehearsal of London’s Royal Opera House production of Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera”, then walks off the project, disappearing…
At The Opera: Hip Hop And Dictators
English National Opera is taking a big chance in presenting a hip hop opera who’s subject is Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. “This is crunch time for the ENO. Can the company really attract a young Asian audience and persuade them that they might want to return for a Madam Butterfly or a Bohème? Or will they simply succeed in alienating their loyal opera fanbase in the attempt?”
At The Opera: Hip Hop And Dictators
English National Opera is taking a big chance in presenting a hip hop opera who’s subject is Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. “This is crunch time for the ENO. Can the company really attract a young Asian audience and persuade them that they might want to return for a Madam Butterfly or a Bohème? Or will they simply succeed in alienating their loyal opera fanbase in the attempt?”
Canadian Artists Demand License Fees
Canadian artists don’t make anything on resale of their work. But some have begun demanding licensing fees from auction houses and dealers reprinting images of art to advertise sales. “For their part, auction houses and art dealers warn that such additional fees could tip some of them out of business or drive them away from exhibiting certain artists.”
Why There Are So Many Empty Seats At The Proms
Huge gaping blocks of empty seats for some performances, there are. But this summer’s Proms sold more tickets than ever. There are, reports Norman Lebrecht, reasonable reasons that the Proms have empty seats…
Why There Are So Many Empty Seats At The Proms
Huge gaping blocks of empty seats for some performances, there are. But this summer’s Proms sold more tickets than ever. There are, reports Norman Lebrecht, reasonable reasons that the Proms have empty seats…