POLITICO 'GRADES' EUROPE'S LEADERS IN MANAGING CORONAVIRUS
POLITICO 'GRADES' EUROPE'S LEADERS IN MANAGING CORONAVIRUS
Filenews 18 October 2020
Seven months after the pandemic – while the second wave is in full swing, which we all hoped would not come, but we knew was inevitable – Europeans have become more aware of how to handle the crisis.
Award-winning pianist Yekwon Sunwoo shares his “Mozart soul” through new album
Though more often associated with the names of Romantic composers – Chopin, Schumann and Schubert, for example – pianist Yekwon Sunwoo hopes to share the Mozart side of himself through a new album.
By Im Eun-byel
The Korea Herald — November 24, 2020
Concert pianist Yekwon Sunwoo, 31, who rose to global stardom three years ago winning the gold medal at the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, has released his first studio album under the Decca label. The 19-track album was recorded this summer in Neumarkt, Germany.
Simply titled "Mozart", the album consists of piano Sonatas Nos. 8 and 10, Adagio for Glass Harmonica in C major, K.356/617a, Fantasia in C minor, K.475 and D minor, K.397 and Rondo in A minor, K.511, all composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
"I know that I haven't mentioned Mozart often in my interviews or at official events", Sunwoo said at a press event Tuesday in southern Seoul. "Mozart is a composer whom I have always loved. It is true I had not thought of him for recordings. But these days, I feel closer to him."
"Mozart piano sonatas have aria-like aspects. Though a pianist, I tried to imagine opera singers and stage directing, imitating the sounds of a string instrument", the Berlin-based artist said, further mentioning that his favorite Mozart opera is "Don Giovanni".
The album consists of two CDs. Sunwoo explained one may be more appropriate for daytime and the other for nighttime listening. The album comes with a score copy of Rondo in A minor, K.511, with handwritten notes by Sunwoo.
"I thought about how I could make the listeners more comfortable while listening to the album. Classical music artists are often not so skilled with words", he said. "I also hope that younger musicians can learn from the notes, seeing how I interpret the scores."
After the recording, Sunwoo took a break from the piano for more than a month – for nearly the first time in his life.
"Things were and still are very uncertain. (The Covid-19 pandemic) is new to everyone. I was depressed... and I tried to stay away (from the piano)", he recounted.
"Then, I started to practice again and realized that I was happy to listen to the sound of the piano. It is a blessing that I can practice the piano and I felt alive. Of course, things are still difficult but I realized why I am living the life of a performer", the pianist said.
Celebrating the release of the first studio album, Sunwoo will go on a nationwide tour from December 30 to January 29, performing in seven cities, including Gwangju, Busan and Daegu. The Seoul engagement of the tour will take place on January 26 at Lotte Concert Hall in southeastern Seoul.
Source: koreaherald.com
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Weekend Roundup
By Coğrafya Blogcusu at 21:30
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- In the New Republic: Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz on the place where the meat industry meets anti-bestiality laws, past and present.
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- The Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, at the Sourasky Central Library, Tel Aviv University, has put some of its collections online, including prosecutions for distributing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Nazi Justice Collection, which "contains information on the judiciary in Nazi Germany and hundreds of trial transcripts." N/t: JQB
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- Brittany Nichole Adams, Special Collections, Digitization, and Archival Services Librarian, Northwestern University is profiled in the Bright Young Librarians series at FineBooks and Collections.
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Fishman on Trollope's Lawyers
By Coğrafya Blogcusu at 13:39
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James Fishman, Pace University School of Law, has posted A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers:
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) resides in the pantheon of nineteenth century English literature. Overcoming a miserable childhood, he became an official with the post office and is credited with introducing the familiar red mailbox. While working full time in his postal position until 1867, he still managed to publish 47 novels, travel books, biographies, short stories, collections of essays, and articles on various topics. Trollope has been described as the novelist of the ordinary for his realistic description of English society.
Law and legal issues flow through Trollope’s fiction. The legal system held a special importance to him as the skeleton upholding the social and political framework of the country. Over one hundred lawyers appear in his work and eleven of his novels feature trials or hearings. The law intrigued and exasperated him. Along with the lawyers and legal issues he depicts are ideas of the law and legal system that are part of elaborate philosophical and jurisprudential traditions, which he recognized.
This article examines Trollope’s changing attitude toward lawyers. It describes the structure of the Bar in terms of class, status and reputation. Trollope believed the legal system should ensure justice, and those who labored in the law should be the vehicle of that pursuit. Justice for Trollope was the meting out of rewards and punishments as the consequence of a right or wrong decision. However, the law, as he depicted it, was often an impediment to this process, and lawyers were unreliable guides.
Initially Trollope portrayed lawyers critically as caricatures as evinced by such names as Alwinde, O’Blather, Slow & Bidewhile, Haphazard, and Chaffanbrass. He was outraged that barristers (lawyers who appear in court) put loyalty to their clients ahead of the search for truth and justice. The adversary system was flawed as the enactment of laws in accord with the laws of nature assumes an inbuilt moral compass in humans that contains self-evident truths of right and wrong. Trollope felt there was no reason why a right-minded person could not intuitively recognize the truth, so criminal law’s adversary system was unnecessary. The legal system sought not the discovery of the truth but was more interested in aiding the guilty defendant to escape punishment. Another grievance was that cross examination in a trial submitted honest witnesses to torture and distracted them from testifying as to the truth.
As he matured as a writer and achieved success, Trollope’s understanding and appreciation of the legal profession changed. He met and become friends with leaders of the Bar, and they influenced his descriptions of lawyers, who became realistic and often admirable human beings. Beyond the legal problems of its characters, Trollope’s later novels incorporated the social, political, and jurisprudential issues of the times and engaged the Victorian legal culture in a broader sense of history, traditions, continuity and change.
Trollope’s attention to the faults of the adversary system had its source in principles of natural law, which posited that God-given universal axioms of right and wrong gave individual guidance or a map for reaching the right result in a legal controversy. Natural law principles were challenged during the Victorian era by positivist notions that law is what the statute books say, and legislators enact. These divisions lurk in the background of his later portraits of lawyers and the legal system. In his later period Trollope created a realistic characterization of the legal profession at the time that offered universal insights into human nature.
--Dan Ernst