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Sung was been thirty-five years ago in Shanghai to one of China's wealthiest and most aristocratic families. The literal translation of his given Mandarin Chinese name Sung Wang Moon, is "a door in the clouds." It is a phrase which could easily be used to describe the distinct of focus in the designer's clean and sophisticated apparel and accessories...
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Two Portraits (Deutsche Grammophon). Bartók's bloodcurdling ballet gets an elemental reading from Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony...
...pivotal role of Ellie, who must switch from virginal intensity to mandarin self-possession in the flick of an entr'acte, Amy Irving is a revelation. Best known as a movie actress (Carrie, Yentl), she commands the stage with her dusky voice and searing stare. Fifty years ago, she could have been Shaw's next heroine; now she can be Broadway...
...setting beguiling-and the opera incomprehensible. So did many Chinese in the audience. Therein lay the seeds of a revolution: the libretto was flashed on a screen at the side of the stage for the benefit of those in the audience who might not grasp every nuance of archaic Mandarin. Sills resolved to take a cue from what she witnessed. The idea was reinforced when the Canadian Opera in Toronto pioneered the use of English captions in its productions of Richard Strauss's Elektra and Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea...
Nearly 45 years ago, just out of Harvard and still trying to master the intricacies of Mandarin, Theodore H. White made his way to China and found a land in turmoil. Settling in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime capital of Chongqing (Chungking), then a drowsy Yangtze River port with a population of 250,000, he soon began reporting from there for TIME. One book (Thunder Out of China, 1946), two wars (China against Japan, China against itself) and six eventful years later, he departed, in sharp disagreement with TIME'S Editor-in-Chief, Henry R. Luce, about China's future...