European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday apr 1114, 1987 the stars and St Lopes chinese fashions have Western Beijing a chinese Model showing offshore skirts deep Slit cd Chipos and Leggy tights Sas Hayed across a stage Al the great Hall of the peo ple on sunday a Day after thousands in somber Mao tunics used me same Hall to criticize Bourgeois lib eral Irondi. The fashion show Tor China s fall and Winter col Lection also featured sportswear Pam suits knee i Neth fur Coats formal dresses Long plaid overcoat Sana men s casual Wear. There were few frills or novelties bul the show was spiced with he occasions Cape brightly checked red and Black jacket sexy Black miniskirt and up swept wide brimmed hat there were several variations of the Dii Pao the traditional tight fitting dress with a Slit up the Side that was banned during the 1966-76 cultural Revo Lution the show was organized by the China garment research and designing Center a Wing of the Tex tile Industry ministry and China apparel Magazine publishing House. Nowadays said textile Industry minister we Wenyung most of the Consumers Are not Content with crabby and old fashioned garments. Due to the needs or the material and cultural life More and More Consumers arc beginning to pursue she said it is the government s role to give Cor rect guidance to purchasers and help them beautify life on the basis of the existing the government has been stressing that China instill a poor country and that people should not exceed practical Levels of consumption As a result of their rising living standards. That advice has been part of a conservative Politi Cal trend which has focused on opposing Bourgeois liberalization the favouring of westernization an capitalism Over socialism. On saturday some 2,700 delegates to the National people s Congress concluded their annual session Al the great Hail with resolutions calling for greater Thrift and hard work and continued struggle against westernization. The p9vernmcnl has emphasized however that the political Campaign will not interfere with peo Pic s daily lives which have become increasingly consumer oriented in recent years. Tan an Deputy chief director of the China Gar a chinese fashion show held in Beijing features sporty pantsuit and Dressy Ikirt ind Juke outfits. A cols research and designing Center said one of he principle Aims of the show was to implement the policy of letting a Hundred towers Bloom and Hundred schools of thought contend " that slogan originated by Mao tse Tung in the1950s, refers to the Freedom of expression that authorities say chinese artists and intellectuals enjoy Tan said Freedom is needed so As to promote garment creation which will Combine National Cul Ture with the trend of the times and which will bring fashion garments into the Homes of thousands of families textiles last year surpassed Oil As China s largest Export item earning More than j5 billion for the country and the government has focused on the fashion Industry As one Way of improving the Quality and image of Enincse textile products. There also is a huge Domestic Market for fashionable clothes with most Young people particularly in the cities now preferring Western suits and dress Eslo the Mao tunic and baggy trousers that have Long characterized chinese dress. Neglected Solieri music revived thanks to a professor and Mozart f. Murray Abraham us Sal trl Newark . A the works of composer Antonio Valieri whose Fame was eclipsed by the Genius of Wolfgang amadeus Mozart Are enjoying 3 revival thanks to a College professor and of Auric Mozart Valieri whose rivalry with Mozart was dramatized in the 1984 film was featured in weekend concerts that included the first Public performance of one of his major works since his lifetime. Musicologist Jane Schalki hot Tricot who has been studying Valieri s work since the 1960s, came across the js2-Ycar-pld manuscript for the mass in b Flat Al a Vienna Library in 1983. It was written in Saliari s own hand. She made a copy of the work which she described As unjustly neglected and transcribed it into modern musical notation. The mass believed to have been last heard publicly in 1822, was performed along with a 1773 Salie Giorgan concerto at rider College in Lawrenceville. Where he trick is an a Sodac professor of music. The program included a work by Beethoven who studied under Valieri but no Mozart. Valieri was a composer of tremendous importance in his Day Hal Rick said. To modern audiences he is Best known As portrayed by f. Murray Abraham in lie film version of Peter Shaffer s play Abraham who sent a videotaped presentation that was shown at the performances Friday and saturday won an Oscar for besi actor for the role and the film was voted picture of the year ii certainly gave Valieri a boost he trick said a in the 1780s, in the 1980s everyone s heard Saliari born near Verona Italy in 1750, was court composer in Vienna from 1778 until a year before his death in 1825. Mozart also worked in the court for afew years before his death in 1791 at age 35. In the film Valieri madly jealous of Mozart s Genius and popularity sets out to destroy the younger com Poser. He trick said the Story takes considerable License with history bul it is based on a framework of the legend of Mozart and Valieri has it that Salicru poisoned Mozart Hettrick said. If he did t actually murder Mozart he is said to have poisoned his life suppressing performances of his she said Al the very least Valieri was Likely terribly conscious of his own inferiority or mediocrity in the tace of this incredible Genius of As to history s Niche for Saliari Hettrick said that he Falls somewhere Between the categories of a Good composer and a great a minor master while Mozart ranks As a major master. The Valieri Organ concerto performed Friday and saturday with he trick As soloist also was unearthed by Hettrick and Sho gave its first modern performance. She said she found the manuscript in a Vienna a chive while studying Organ under a Fulbright scholarship in the late l%0s. And she first performed it in i 7l. I is tint Corr i to say i discovered these com he trick sure sol a in a Dephone interview. Till manuscripts were in libraries. I merely brought them to to Mark the first modern performance untie mass. The austrian government sent the original manuscripts of both in and the Organ concerto 10 the College for display. Additionally an austrian company plans to publish i Gellrick b cd ii Ion of t Itu m ass she said
