Ballet
While Vinyl Sales Increase, CDs and MP3s Experiencing an Untimely, Yet Expected Demise
Quickies: Anna Netrebko's Winter Olympics Bod, Classical is Dead, Classical's NOT Dead, Caroline Shaw Pedals Violin, 'Living Stars' @ Sundance
Ann Netrebko, second only to Val Gergiev as Vlad Putin's favorite court musician, lets her glasnosts fly high above New York City--"L'Elisir d'Flu," indeed. Quickies: Katherine Jenkins' Dirty Blonde, New Miles Davis Fillmore Box, Caramoor Sets Lineup, Afrikaner Dance Musiek, Most Reverberant Space
Re-signing with her first record label Decca (i.e. Universal Music Group's classical contingent), Welsh songbird Kath Jenkins has gone back to her roots--literally.
