Word: maestro
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...Boston tonight. Well-known for his witty and often surreal humor, he has been called the “funniest man in pretty much all of the known universe,” “a human search engine,” “a surrealist maestro of historical and scientific trivia,” and “a one-man Monty Python crew.” In between tours, Izzard has been earning rave reviews for his acting talent on the big screen and most recently on Broadway, where he is starring...
...have 500 making 3,000 a month," he says. "I didn't expect it would grow to this." It is a success story that is partly rooted in communism, partly in geography and largely in Gliga's innate skills as an entrepreneur. Violins in his top-of-the-line maestro series change hands for as much as $5,000. The company's sales reached $5 million last year, no small achievement in a limited, saturated market and within a national economy still struggling in the aftermath of 40 years of communism...
Another reason for Gliga's success is more prosaic--the price. The four grades of handcrafted violins (school, student, professional and maestro, ranging from $50 to $1,500 wholesale) are extremely competitive compared with the cheap but poorer quality Chinese-made fiddles currently bagging some 65% of the market or with the sports car--like prices of German and Italian models. Low production costs in Romania give Gliga a competitive edge even though its employees--considered an elite work force--earn twice the national average of $100 a month...
...aspiring auteurs, there's no shortage of moviemaking software. But try to cut your film to match a song in your MP3 library, and it gets more difficult. SmartSound Movie Maestro ($50) makes it easy by automatically layering in your sound track. The basic software package offers a fair variety of styles, from Blockbuster (heavy orchestra, eerie synth) to Vacation (steel drums, Dixieland brass), but the best stuff comes from the six optional Movie Music CDs ($30 apiece). The drawback is that you're stuck with their music; the program doesn't enable you to use tracks from a personal...
...STREAMS OF RAGA MUSIC. Maestro Padmabhushan Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, a legendary musician of the South Indian Carnatic and Hindustani styles of music, will lead this workshop on the acoustic method he revolutionized. Friday, April 25, 6:30 p.m. Tickets $25, $15 students. (781) 862-9648 or email vanita@merufoundation.org for more information. Sackler Museum, 465 Broadway...