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* • ☆ Page 6/Thc Battalion/Monday February 9, 1987 Pianist shows beauty of Beethoven Performance at A&M demonstrates power of composer Contact Lenses Only Quality Nam* Brands (Bausch A Lomb, Clba, Bamas-HInds-Hydrocurva) 79. oo -STD. DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES FREE SPARE PR. .<» « • $99 $99 00 -STD. EXTENDED WEAR SOFT ’ L LENSES , 00 -STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES OFFER ENOS MAACH 31, IM7 AND AFFUCS TOSTO 0A«.¥ WEAR CCEAR •TORE LENSES ONLY Call 696-3754 For Appointment * Eye exam and oare Ml not i CHARLES C. SCHROCPPEL, OJ)., P.C. DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 707 South Texae Ave.. SutW 101D Now OfTering European Body Wraps Valcn«» cs Spec Buy 10 sessions and get 5 FREE, FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR VALENTINE or Buy 5 and get two FREE 15,1967 Official Tanning Center The Original. Perfect Tan TS4-XT71 Chamber be performed for a ence in an metasate setting Pianist Paul Hersh’s perfor mance in Rudder Theater Friday was just that — small, inornate and beautiful. Hermh's performance was the first program of the year spon sored by the University Chamber Series, a mint venture bv the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and the MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society to to Texas bring \*M About 250 people turned out to hear Hersh play the last three piano sonatas written by Ludwig van Beethoven As a preview to hw pct t<»rmanor, Hersh held lec tures on the sonatas Wednesday and Thursday nights When Beethoven wrote the so natas, between the years of 1820 and 1822, he was almost com pletely deaf and had isolated him self from the music world because of his lack of hearing From this time to his death in i Beethoven composed some of his moat influential works, such as the piano sonatas and the nitnen oymj>fv>n v Hersh bagMi Friday night s performance with the Kano So nata No. 50 in E Major, Opus 7?^ Noted pi an it Paul Hersh performs in Rudder Friday night. 109, running through the begin ning of the first movement, a fast series of scales that cover most of the pianos mg dexterity. After the keyboard, with amai- introduction. the grew slower and more gentle The second movement was even faster than the first. The third movement was so beautiful it left the audience stunned. When Hersh finished playing, there was a brief, reflec tive pause before the audience began its enthusiastic applause Ai one of the lectures. Hersh referred to Piano Sonata No. 51 in A-Flat, Opus 110 as a spiritual journey. His performance of the piece was indeed spiritual. The first movement seemed to be a simple, straightforward tune but there were several strange jumps of rhythm that Hersh executed with a timid virtnomtv The rhythm of the second movement was even stranger, and Hersh played the difficult passages cirartv without being fla shy The thira movement began slowly and picked up in tempo and volume. After a short interadmion, Hersh returned to the sUNge for Piano Sonata No. 52 in C Minor. Opus 111. The fact that the so nata is compnaed of only two movements confused audbences and musicians during Beetho ven's tame The Tint movement had a grand, urgent feeling with a sim ple. almoat church-Use harmony. The second movement was slow and stately but with a sense of nervousness that seemed to give the piece a more human feeling Hersh was brought back to the stage by a standing ovation. Medicare spawns crisis in rural healthcare FORT WORTH (AF) — Nine smal-town Texas doctors have been knocked out of the Medicare pro gram, a situation that threatens heakh care for the poor and elderly in rural areas, physicians and critics •ay. As many as 100 doctors are up for disciplinary review. 25 rural hospi tals have closed in the past year and small Texas towns are joining their doctors in proteat, the Fort Worth Star-Teiegnm reported Sunday During the past ymsr, the Texas Medical Foundation, a private watchdog group under contract to review care provided under the Medicare program, has recom mended sanctions against 15 doc tors, most in rural areas with many elderly patients The foundation has set final hear ings for 14 more doctors and is re viewing dozens of others who could face loss of reimbursements from Medicare. Doctors in Henrietta. Cisco, Knox Springs, Perryton kney, Mtneoia and dy nave lost their Medicare reimburse menu through the foundation’s hearings “The elderly people are afraid.*’ said Carla Powell, presklent of the Archer City Chamber of Commerce “They are used to their doctor and they don’t want to change,'* she said "A lot of innocent people are suffering.'* Powell and more than 100 Archer County residents traveled to Dallas last week to attend a hearing for an Archer City doctor under review Medicare officials now have 120 days to decide hu fate The Texas Medical Foundation has a two-year. SI8.1 million con tract as Texas' peer review organiza tion and is charged with determin ing whether hospital care for Medicare patients is appropriate, cost-eff ective and of good quality. Rural doctors penalized by Medi care sanctions can lose their rights to care for Medicare patients, who of ten represent more than half of ru ral doctors’ practices and 70 percent of their hospitalized patients. Penal ized doctors and hospitals also lose their Medicaid reimbursements for care of the poor. The doctors say urban standards are being applied to the rural hospi tals. while foundation officials con tend they are only interested in root ing out poor medical i l care. Agency: Dam won’t harm water snake Doctors in H City, Sulphur (Fokhwaite, Lo BALL1NCER (AP) — The Con cho water snake will not be harmed by construction of Stacy Reservoir, the U S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined. In its final environmental impact statement, issued last week, the fed eral agency said the Fish and Wild life Service has come up with ’’rea sonable and prudent" measures to protect the snake — a roadblock to proceeding with the long-delaved dam project The Colorado River Municipal Water District, which plans to build the dam. has agreed to conditions set by the federal government, includ ing the bulldozing of 50 miles of Col orado River shoreline to create more habitat for the snake The reservoir would flood about half of the snake • primary habitat along the Colorado River in Run- neb, Coleman and Concho counties. The project is designed to provide a water supply for Odessa. Big Spring, Snvder, Midland. San An gelo and Abilene “Of course we re not pleased with all the conditions, but it boils down to either doing what the Fish and Wildlife recommended or not build ing the reservoir,“ said Owen I vie. the water district’s director. The Corps cannot issue a permit for any project that would jeopar dize a species on the nation’s threat ened or endangered species list. The only major issue that remains unresolved is how much land suita ble for common wildlife such as deer the water district will have to buy. of ficials said. Federal regulations re- auire the district to give the land to the state to compensate for the acre age it will flood. The Fish and Wildlife Service wants the water disc net to buy about 6.000 acres, but water diatnet offi cials think 5,000 acres would make up for the land the dam witt destroy. “When you're talking about twice the acres, you're talking about twice the money.” I vie said The water district recently agreed to pay for a survey of more than 400 historic and prehistoric utes that the reservoir wUi wipe out. A walk through survey of the reservoir site revealed arrowheads dating back to 6,000 B.C., dugouts and one of the area’s original ranch homes. 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