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WALTER GIESEKING: BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 IN E FLAT (Seraphim). This is the second low-priced issue of a Gieseking Emperor; the first (on Odyssey) is older and not as up-to-date in sound. For a seasoned campaigner, the late German pianist could be surprisingly youthful when he turned to Beethoven. Here he treats the Emperor more like a prince-in-waiting than an absolute monarch; he never stoops to imperious rhetoric, his tone is lithe and silvery, and he moves with quickness and grace. It is not the only way to treat the music...
...empire overrun by the invading Mongols, China's last Sung emperor was cast into the sea. Kublai Khan became lord of an empire that stretched from Korea to Mesopotamia. In the next 90 years under the Yuan dynasty, which he founded, China experienced what seems to have been a wideranging artistic reorientation. Yet until recently, Chinese scholars could never bring themselves to study in depth this hated era of foreign domination...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
Dual System. South Vietnamese legal experts are also at work revising outmoded civil and criminal codes. Particularly confusing is a dual legal system inherited from the French. One group of laws was created for the central part of the country, which was administered by the Viet emperor; other laws were written for Cochin China in the south, which was an outright colony controlled by the French governor. The differing legal standards are still applied today. Fornication, for example, was made a crime in central Viet Nam, reflecting strict Confucian traditions. No such statutes are in effect in the sophisticated south...
Unattached Eyeballs. Grandville's favorite creatures were frogs, which he used to symbolize children, clowns, or murder victims, and he kept a pet frog on his drawing table. Insects, too, fascinated him. With his thin spidery line, he created a whole metaphorical insectarium-emperor moths confer with dung beetles, frivolous lady bugs are escorted by loutish caterpillars, cricket barkers play to snails and turtles...