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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: CD inserts.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.061125.12524@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:11:25 GMT
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- In article <Bzo6A3.JnC@cda.mrs.umn.edu> naras@cda.mrs.umn.edu (B. Narasimhan) writes:
- >Just a thought.
-
- >Certain labels like Archiv, DG, to name two, include excellent
- >historical material in their CD inserts on the composers. Others
- >don't, although RCA and CBS seem to be improving.
-
- Thank you! (I write for RCA -- any critiques gladly accepted.)
-
- >However, I am
- >always frustrated by the fact that not much info is included about
- >the performers or the orchestra. I have the whole set of 9 Beethoven
- >symphonies by Roger Norrington and it has some info on him and his
- >orchestra repeated in all of the CD's.
-
- >Which labels include biographical info on the performers
- >on a routine basis? Wouldn't it be nice if the material was
- >pertinent to the performance itself? I have seen CD
- >inserts regurgitating the same reviews for many different
- >recordings.
-
- Very often, the performers or their managers have control over
- what gets published there. The label may have little choice in
- this matter.
-
- Roger
-
- >
- >--
- >B. Narasimhan naras@cda.mrs.umn.edu
- >Division of Science and Math.
- >The University of Minnesota at Morris
- >Morris, MN 56267
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