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...young British consul in Africa, Casement doggedly uncovered and exposed the plight of Congolese natives whom King Leopold of the Belgians had promised to deliver from slavery but instead through torture, amputation and the lash, forced into the production of rubber. As a result of Casement's crusade-obstructed at every step by the "abject pifflers" of the Foreign Office -the Congo Free State, a private monopoly, was pried from ruthless Leopold's personal grasp and placed under the more or less civilized control of the Belgian government...
...five-album, 15-LP release from RCA makes amends handsomely, if belatedly. The set contains, for example, not just the famous recording of the Second Concerto made with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1929 but also another version with the same performers from 1924. Then there is Rachmaninoff partnering Fritz Kreisler in a fancy-free performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata in G, Op. 30, No. 3 (1928). There is a stupendous performance of Beethoven's 32 Variations in C Minor, which might well have been retitled 26 Variations since Rachmaninoff omitted variations...
WEDNESDAY: Compulsion. 1959. Taut dramatization of the Loeb-Leopold murder case of the twenties. Orson Welles and Dean Stockwell. CH.56...
...point at which the flow reversed and Disney's iconography began affecting high art can be identified almost to the frame: it happened when, in Fantasia, Mickey Mouse clambered up on the (real) podium and shook hands with the (real) conductor Leopold Stokowski. High and low art collapsed into one another. It was inevitably Mickey who made Stokowski more of a star by the handshake, not the other way round. The gesture made Pop art possible and, after a gestation of nearly 20 years, it duly arrived in a flurry of mice: Roy Lichtenstein is said to have happened...
...musical forms are routine for Bender who, as music editor since 1968, has written TIME cover stories on subjects ranging from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar to Soprano Beverly Sills to Singer-Composer James Taylor. Three years ago, a documentary that he wrote for television on Conductor Leopold Stokowski was awarded an Emmy. In fact, Bender is fascinated by all forms of musical expression...