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...dream, blinking in the light," says Playwright Arthur Miller of the artists, film makers and writers he has been interviewing in China. The author of Death of a Salesman spent a month gathering material for a book, Chinese Encounters, a joint venture with his photographer wife Inge Morath. "I found them remote and totally cut off," Miller said of his subjects. Until the government's recent liberalizing trend, they were "sequestered on farms feeding pigs." Although none of the Chinese Miller met knew of his work, there were some recollections of an earlier era. "They wanted to know...
...EVENING WITH MAX MORATH. Singer-Pianist Max Morath provides ragtime piano playing and patter on the manners of turn-of-the-century America. An amiable show for those who miss the days of cherry phosphates and trolley transfers...
...again," and Quentin muses, "No man lives who would not rather be the sole survivor of this place than all its finest victims. ... Who can be innocent again on this mountain of skulls? ... We are very dangerous!"). Holga represents Miller's present wife, the Austrian-born professional photographer Ingeborg Morath...
...Morath now plays about 50 college dates a year, and sometimes holds after-show clinics for scholarly ragtime buffs. Morath himself was playing The Maple Leaf Rag on the piano before he could read; his mother was a silent-film pianist in Colorado Springs...
What draws people to ragtime, Morath thinks, is that "it is happy music; it speaks of a time of tranquillity, reform, consolidation and harmony in our national life." He is particularly pleased that his audiences are so young. "If I found that only the tag end of another generation was interested," says Morath, "I'd have dropped it long ago." Which means...