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...BOTTOM LINE: This muddled work ended Korngold's operatic career, but Vienna's loss was the movies' gain...
Despite such sentiments, this week in Vienna, in conjunction with the World Conference on Human Rights, antiprostitution groups will propose a controversial update of the United Nations' 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The proposal, to completely ban sex-for-sale -- and not just forced prostitution -- is endorsed by UNESCO. Legalized prostitution, as in the Netherlands and Germany, "is an open door for traffickers," claims Janice Raymond, an activist with the U.S.-based Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Many experts, however, say a hard-line approach...
Specifically, Shattuck will work to guide the process of granting China Most Favored Nation trade status, which depends largely on the nation's progress on human rights. He will also be preparing for an international world conference in Vienna on human rights. Shattuck will be deputy head of the U.S. delegation to the gathering...
...WHERE: VIENNA FESTIVAL...
Hardly a conventional subject for an opera, but then Steve Reich's new music-theater piece, The Cave, which premiered last week at the Vienna Festival, is hardly a conventional opera. Based on videotaped interviews with Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem, and with Americans in New York City and Austin, Texas, it is a three-act, multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the pioneering minimalist composer and his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot. By turns fascinating and frustrating, The Cave, which will have other performances this year in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Brooklyn, Paris and Brussels, stands...