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A few days ago, I briefly mentioned the fact that our totally radical magazine is also available in digital attire. It was on my mind because Dave Jenne, one of the production dudes at Zinio (our digital publishing partner), had sent me the link to our April issue. Dave sends me an e-mail each month. And it goes a little something like this:
The Apr07 issue of Stereophile has been posted to the Publisher Approval site for your review. As a reminder, we are expecting to receive your final approval and post this issue by the dates below.
Final Approval by: 3/16/2007
Scheduled…
Timothy Mangan has a nice interview with Murray Perahia in the OCRegister. It's good to have him back performing.
When I worked at a classical label back in the '80s, I was talking to a Sony executive and complimented him on the success of Perahia's Mozart piano concerto series. He laughed ruefully, saying, "You have no idea how hard we had to work to make that happen. We released 8 LPs before even one of them was in the black. We kept releasing discs because we believed in Perahia."
Contrast that with today. I was talking to an A-list classical musician not long ago, whose label…
The Chronicle of Higher Education makes the case that Idol's popularity reflects "a hunger for realistic evaluation."
"Time and time again, contestants in the early episodes of this year's season whine obviously off key and then insist they are highly talented—in spite of the judges' protestations."
According to Ephraim Lytle, far too much. I haven't seen the movie, but I have to admit I'm disturbed at the shoddy treatment of Demophilus' 700 Thespians, who heroically refused to withdraw with the rest of the Greek forces, and died with the Spartans.
I'm on deadline, so of course all I can think about is dinner. Think I'll go upstairs and start some chhole cooking, steam up a bunch of brown basmati rice, and mix up a raita—think I'll add some fresh mint, cilantro, and a chopped, drained tomato to that last 'un.
Oh yeah, and listen some more to the WATT/Puppy 8s, so I can turn my review in on time. Honest.
I'm still surprised whenever approached by some faithless audiophile — hair thinning, ears sagging, belly bulging — and asked (seriously): "Do you think there's any hope for our industry?"
How do I answer a question like this? Do I cite statistics, pull pie charts out of my hat, sing of the iPod, speak of love? I mean, who do I look like, The Incredible Kreskin? The Amazing Randi? Whitney Houston?
When they ask, so unapologetically, so apocalyptically, so Al-Anonically:
Do you
think
we will
sur
vive?
I really just want to say: "…