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First reactions are especially valuable in cases like this. Forget the furrowed brow and the repeated candlelight reading of the lyric sheet with a glass of cheap red beside the CD jewel box. Whenever a performer of Leonard Cohen's high caliber and even higher seriousness comes out with a new album, the instinct is to treat it as if it were an invitation to a semiotics seminar or a cryptogram from a reclusive shaman poet. But just this once, never mind all that. The Future is a record to get onto, like an express from the far side...
When Japanese police told the Americans that the buses would not leave for the airport until the items were returned, more than 80 CD players, pocket recorders, miniature televisions, and electric razors suddenly -- and anonymously -- were handed over to the police. The incident has profoundly embarrassed the historically black university and given rise to concerns that the students' behavior will further tarnish the negative opinion of blacks already held by many Japanese...
WHERE DID MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH GO wrong? The retiring music director of Washington's National Symphony was one of America's cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich...
...Billie Holiday was no butterfly to be broken on such a greasy wheel. As this triumphant 10-CD collection demonstrates, she still had greatness in her. She was leading a reckless life when she laid down her great Columbia sides in the 1930s and early '40s, and by the time she got to Verve, the price she was paying for her excesses was becoming more damaging. You can hear the bills coming due. In a "Jazz at the Philharmonic" session from 1945, Holiday's debut at Carnegie Hall, she follows a sexy, freewheeling Body and Soul with a heart-riving...
...opened the way for Bartoli, her reputation has grown worldwide because of her five solo CDs -- mostly of Rossini and Mozart but also including Vivaldi and Scarlatti. Her just-released CD, If You Love Me, a group of giddy 18th century Italian songs, now tops the classical charts. Not until 1994 and after will her opera career come to full fruition, given the enormous lead time that productions now require...