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Pianist shows beauty of Beethoven
Performance at A&M demonstrates power of composer
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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
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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
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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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