Like the CMJ festival in New York, it functions partly as a conference and mixer for record executives, musicians, radio workers and the press and partly as a pressure-cooker showcase for new bands.
But interviews with several dozen orchestra executives, musicians and industry professionals exposed a far thornier process filled with power struggles that in some cases dated back to internal strife pitting Mr. Masur against Deborah Borda, the orchestra's executive director for most of the 1990's.
Although Flash didn't get enough votes from the 1,000 record company executives, musicians and critics during his first year of Hall of Fame eligibility, he isn't complaining: "In my mind I thought maybe it might not happen this time.
The total is higher if counting the dozens of contributions of $900 or more from lawyers, TV honchos, record executives, musicians and others in the entertainment industry, such as Jenner, with some association to MSG.
Or, as the program put it, the producer/performer/songwriter/manager/filmmaker/memoirist "left for his final tour". The service drew industry executives, musicians, fans and friends, including Rodney Bingenheimer, Howie Pryo, members of the Fowley project Black Room Doom, Johnny Echols of the band Love, Kenny Laguna, and Dan West.
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck, comedian Louis C.K., Hewlett Packard executive Meg Whitman, musicians Roger Waters and Cher, and Anne Frank's stepsister, Eva Schloss, have made similar statements.
At additional late-night sessions -- 8 to 10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 to 2 on Fridays and Saturdays -- the spinning is done by high-profile record executives and musicians like Benn Watt of the pop band Everything but the Girl, said Tony Fant, executive vice president of the hotel.
The film features a decade's worth of interviews with Napster's founders and developers, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker (pictured above), record label executives and musicians.
And so, that night, executives and musicians met once again in the international ballroom of the Beverly Hilton for a radically changed Latin music event.
Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren today are doctors, lawyers, professors, nurses, accountants, engineers, counselors, corporate executives, artists, musicians, writers and students at top colleges and universities.
