EMI is keen to spend resources on nurturing new acts, a department where Warner Music has cut back of late.
Interviews with lawyers, agents and the record company A&R men responsible for discovering and nurturing new acts makes it abundantly clear that, even if NC-17 were to land a recording contract and produce a hit, its chances of making any money would remain slim to none, thanks to the industry's bizarre accounting practices.
The second offering, opened here last weekend, in a state of unreadiness so needy of dramaturtigical therapy and a producer's savvy, it becomes sadly necessary to call into question the professional judgment of a theater that purports to be more devoted to nurturing the act of creation than to sending a play off to fields greener than Madison.
Austin John Marshall, record producer, folk-revival ideas man, lyricist and songwriter, performance poet and muralist, created, nurtured or acted as cultural midwife to many strands of art.
Ertegun's careful nurturing of acts like Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin is often cited as evidence of the kind of patient temperament now lacking at major labels.
That means nurturing arousal through positive acts of intimacy".
On the other hand, it said, careful hand-feeding of such patients is an act of nurturing.
Complaining about sexual boredom is easy and common, but nurturing eroticism is an act of open defiance.
Mr. Bloch also nurtured several New York acts that went on to become successful, among them Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and Joan Osborne.
Many are performers or former performers who see their role as advocating and nurturing colleagues rather than merely pushing acts.
