"We were looking for artists who were passionate about what they were doing, " Mr. Alpert says.
"We didn't want to be involved in the beat of the week, " Mr. Alpert says.
" These issues, says Alpert, take forms such as: "Why hasn't he changed his relationship status?
Though no longer a music executive, Mr. Alpert is still on the lookout for young talent.
"I get a more sincere feeling out of playing at small, intimate clubs, " Mr. Alpert says.
Of the popular musicians today, Mr. Alpert is particularly impressed with the singer Adele.
The giving also reflects Mr. Alpert's belief in the importance of pairing talent with self-discipline to hone creativity.
On March 11, Mark Alpert of Deutsch Bank raised his rating on Capital One to "buy" as well.
Their first office was in the same garage from which Mr. Alpert recorded.
Alpert and Moss realized they had not only the resources but the know-how to expand their services to other artists.
"I'm seeing at least two new clients a week for Facebook issues, " says psychotherapist and Metro advice columnist Jonathan Alpert.
"Women are more influenced by others' opinions of them, " says psychotherapist Alpert.
"Our goal was not to start a record company, " Mr. Alpert says.
Mr. Alpert made much of his fortune by seeking out the unique qualities of other artists in his parallel career as a record-company executive.
There, on Monday, that community center, which educates children in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, will add "Herb Alpert Center" to its name.
Mr. Alpert, a co-founder of the Downtown Community Television Center, considered the project not only a character study but a window into America's shifting fortunes.
According to Alpert, the issuance of a marriage license is a mandatory prerequisite to a valid marriage in California and generally comes before the ceremony.
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The brain is craving certainty, says Alpert, so if overachieving is your norm, it may actually be hard to slow down even with a newborn to contend with.
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But Mr. Alpert made sure she knew it about it on a recent afternoon, handing over the baseball cap he was given at the recent nominees' lunch.
In 2008, the SEC brought the underlying civil enforcement action against Alpert and Gabelli that alleged that from 1999 until 2002 Alpert and Gabelli allowed one GGGF investor Headstart Advisers, Ltd.
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Alpert says it's important to have a strong regulatory regime in place to make sure this doesn't get "out of hand" and that the companies' shareholders don't get a free ride.
"We basically made the decision that the government needs to get into the mortgage market, " says Dan Alpert, managing director of New York-based investment bank Westwood Capital, who has extensive experience dealing with mortgage-backed securities.
Thus concludes a process begun in August, when 37 composers attended a weeklong series of workshops and seminars at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music (17 of them now get the chance to work directly with orchestras).
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"It's not only alcoholics, it's not only immigrants, it's not only people who used to have jobs in factories, " said Mr. O'Neill, whose 2010 collaboration with Mr. Alpert, "China's Unnatural Disaster, " also was nominated for an Academy Award.
That "horn" is the trumpet with which Mr. Alpert climbed the pop charts first with "The Lonely Bull, " the garage recording he made in 1962 after hearing the sounds of a Mexican bullfight, followed by a string of singles in the '60s with his band, the Tijuana Brass.
That may not be the worst thing, given the excesses that led the the bubble bursting five and a half years ago, but Alpert thinks one of the knock-on effects is housing demand from institutional investors masking the fact that shadow inventory is still a significant overhang on the market.
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