Matthew Desmond

Negli Stati Uniti, uno dei paesi più ricchi del mondo, vivono più poveri che in qualsiasi altra democrazia avanzata. Perché? Com'è possibile che la nazione dell'abbondanza, da sempre considerata una terra di opportunità, permetta che a un bambino su otto manchino i beni di prima necessità? Come mai migliaia di cittadini vivono e muoiono per strada, mentre le aziende pagano stipendi da fame?

From Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America.

Three L’Oiseau-Lyre LPs celebrating the art of a much-loved contralto, newly remastered and compiled together for the first time, including material new to CD. The history of British contraltos on record extends beyond Kathleen Ferrier to Constance Shacklock and before her Dame Clara Butt, but their select number was joined in the 1950s by Helen Watts: ‘An extraordinary contralto,’ in the words of her modern counterpart, Nathalie Stützmann. Having left her Welsh home and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, she quickly established herself as Ferrier’s successor on the oratorio platform with memorable performances of Bach and Handel under Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Adrian Boult. At the same time she began making records for L’Oiseau-Lyre, in complete and pioneering accounts of Semele and Sosarme, first of all and recently reissued by Eloquence.