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...Gyula Orendt’s Oronte is arrestingly honey-toned and seductive, while Luca Tittoto’s Créon underpins everything with his velvety, authoritative bass....
...Bonderman, 79, and Coulter, 62, co-founded TPG in 1992 after cutting their teeth as dealmakers working under Texas oilman Robert Bass....
...Bonderman and Coulter left Bass in 1992 to rescue Continental Airlines from bankruptcy, a deal that generated a return of nearly $700m on an investment of just $64m, according to securities filings....
...Bonderman and Coulter had been colleagues working for the Bass family in Texas....
...In 1989, with the backing of billionaire Robert Bass, Lasry and his sister Gardner created their own brokerage. Six years later, they launched Avenue Capital. “I love special situations....
...This latest set from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has the bonus of two guest soloists in the ensemble, violinist Isabelle Faust and viola player Antoine Tamestit, both playing on instruments from the...
...It’s a formal establishment, just off the Avenue de Friedland, heavy with the secrets of some of the late, great titans of European business it regularly welcomed, such as legendary Lazard banker Antoine...
...He opts for the salmon tartare and then sea bass on crushed potatoes. He orders two glasses of Chablis....
...If Elvis was the conduit for wild and destructive forces that he could not ultimately control, then Simonon’s about-to-be-destroyed bass, in a photo taken two years after Presley’s death, is the resulting...
...Using a principle that it calls “heart bass implosion”, Devialet was able to produce in its basketball-sized speaker deep bass performance of the sort achieved in high-end audio speakers about 20 times bigger...
...Jamilyn Manning-White’s pellucid soprano exuded innocence as Eurydice, and Jeff Beruan’s burly bass boomed darkly as Pluto....
...Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797) worked for the Paris Opéra as violinist, composer and director, but his reputation has always been eclipsed by Rameau, whose style he followed....
...Jean-Romain Lhomme of Colony Capital said the vineyard had been neglected and unloved when the firm acquired it in 2001 from British brewer Bass-Charrington....
...The next band, Fringe Magnetic, blend and juxtapose chamber music strings with sparse jazz improvisation supported by Jasper Holby’s riffy double bass....
...The music was retro without being suffocating, tinny hi-hats and stark beats combining with bass rumbles and bouncy electronic effects, while the duo’s rapping was basic but good-natured....
...Christie’s, London, July 8: Old Master and British pictures Up to £5m is expected here for a remarkable discovery in the form of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s “La Surprise”....
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