Tuesday, June 14, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
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' er >ter ilitfe By Staci Finch
onfused tnH Reviewer
u ; Iryan-College Station got a dose
f chamber music last night at a level
n our wonEf sophistication rarely seen outside
Hsajor metropolitan centers.
Rudder Forum was the scene for
■second installment of the four-
raight. WeR Lyric Art Festival, and the more
it enginetrB ^ audience members were
„ 8 ^Hted to an hour and a half of con-
’ P ro P fmjrorary chamber music, appro-
re as well iHtely titled “Twentieth Century
^ftrican Pioneers.”
■he evening was a tribute to com-
■r Henry Cowell and his works,
U U.T. waj«|g w >th those of other composers
I mifluenced. I hey were presented
ainill Rne style by some of Houston’s
' wouldn’t»*t musicians. Works by Charles
M InsteadB George Gershwin and Lou
|, , . ■rison were performed, and Har-
snatnglni*j was present to give the history
•me interesifeach piece as it was played,
n Hhe first segment of the evening
ft; H“Four Combinations for Violin,
■ Ho, and Piano” written in 1924 by
1 class" umfenry Cowell. Beginning with a vio-
Rand cello duet Allegretto that
■e you want to call “Bravo” from
Juate stud*
or The Bat
the first note, the piece led to a lone
some and powerful piano and violin
Largo, continued with a demanding
piano and cello Allegro and ended
with a piano/violin/cello combination
that created an extremely beautiful
piece and made you beg for more.
Following the piece by Cowell was
“Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano
(Children’s Day at the Camp Mee
ting)” by New England composer
Charles Ives. The first mmovement
was a vigorous Allegro, and was
remniscient of children marching to
their favorite hymn. The second
movement was composed around a
favorite children’s hymn, “Jesus
Loves Me,” and reflected the beauty
of nature and a peaceful soul. The
piece finished up with a rousing ren
dition of “Shall We Gather at the
River.” Especially notable was that
the performance was given by violin
ist Kenneth Goldsmith, a prominent
musician who is making his debut
with the Houston Symphony Or
chestra this summer.
The highlight of the evening was _
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the performance of vocalist Edrie
Means. A graduate from the Shen
andoah Conservatory, she received
her M.M. degree from the Universty
of Houston. She performed George
Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch
Over Me” and “’S Wonderful” with
Broadway flair. But it was her rendi
tion of “My Man’s Gone Now” from
the opera “Porgy and Bess” that
stole the show. In addition to a won
derful voice, Means’ intensity of
pose and facial expressions made the
audience share in her loss.
Rounding out the evening was a
piece written by composer Lou Hen
derson. The piece, “Concerto for Vi
olin and Percussion Orchestra,” was
begun in 1940, but wasn’t finished
until 1959.
An excellent example of avant-
garde music, for which Henderson is
well-known, the percussion instru
ments included flower pots, carpent
ers nails, coffee cans, galvanized iron
washtubs and parts of automobiles,
as well as conventional drums and
cymbals.
The intricate workings of the per
cussion with the violin was excellent.
The music ran the gamut of emo
tions: from a fast and furious Alle
gro that quickened the heartbeat, to
a smooth and almost eerie Largo,
back again to a vigorous Allegro.
The music inundated the senses
with a stampede of sounds combin
ing to an arousing gestalt, as the vio
linist finished off the evening with
an exciting flourish that brought the
crowd to its feet.
roup plans international bridge rally
iREDO (AP) — Members of a
Ice” convoy stalled at the Mexi-
jrder by a trade embargo with
UiirstfMtearagua said Monday they plan a
ally on an international bridge to-
light and will cross the Rio Grande
|morrow morning.
■he Veterans’ Peace Convoy to
Jicaragua said it had planned to en-
RMexico last Wednesday, until
J.S. Treasury officials notified them
hat the vehicles they intended to
feave in Nicaragua would violate the
licaraguan Trade Control Regula-
ions.
Tpme 30 tons of food, medical
supplies and clothing earmarked for
children in the Central American
nation are loaded on the 28 mini
pickup trucks, one 2 1 /2-ton truck,
two regular pickups, five buses, one
Volkswagen van and a car, said con
voy member Ed Deaton, a Vietnam
veteran from Tallahassee, Fla.
The 106 convoy participants have
been staying since Wednesday at the
Kampground of America in north
ern Laredo.
“We’re looking at a Wednesday
crossover time,” Deaton said Mon
day.
group has said it would give
vernment until Wednesday to
The o i
the government
agree that their trip is legal.
Treasury officials said the human
itarian cargo is exempt from the
trade embargo in effect since 1985,
but that the vehicles carrying the
supplies cannot be taken to Nicara
gua.
The convoy planned to leave the
vehicles in Nicaragua as part of its
donation.
Charles Conroy, a Customs
spokesman in Houston, said the
group is free to cross the border, if it
fills out export forms. The forms, he
said, require identification to be sup
plied for the people and vehicles; ac
knowledgment that the trade em
bargo requires the vehicles to be
returned within 30 days and ac
knowledgment that they can be
prosecuted for violating the terms of
the trade embargo.
Violating the embargo could re
sult in fines of up to $50,000 and up
to 10 years in prison.
The U.S. government imposed
the trade control regulations on Ni
caragua in May 1985.
Board to release
complaints made
about physicians
AUSTIN (AP) — For the first
time, the Texas State Board of
Medical Examiners plans to re
lease to hospitals and other medi
cal institutions information about
complaints lodged against physi
cians during the time they have
held a Texas medical license.
The information will not be
available to the public, according
to state law. It will be given only
to hospitals, health maintenance
organizations, nursing homes,
group medical practices, medical
societies or any other health-care
agency that submits a written re
quest, the Austin American-
Statesman said.
Historically, complaints against
Texas physicians have been held
confidential by the medical
board, and some physicians may
not even be aware a complaint is
on file against them. But a 1987
state law authorized the board to
inform any “health-care entity” of
such complaints.
The medical board was unpre
pared for this. It assumed the dis
closure law applied only to com
plaints lodged against doctors
after Sept. 1, 1987, when the law
took effect, and has been releas
ing information only about those
complaints, the American-States-
man said.
But a recent opinion by Attor
ney General Jim Mattox requires
the board to release information
about any complaint ever lodged
against a doctor licensed by the
board.
Mattox’s ruling poses an imme
diate problem for the medical
board because it has no central
filing system for the thousands of
complaints against doctors, board
officials said. Only complaints re
ceived since September 1986 are
in the board’s computer system,
they said.
“It’s going to be difficult to go
through the records and the files,
but we’re going to do the best we
can,” Dr. G.V. Brindley Jr., board
executive director, said. “And it’s
going to take a lot of time.”
Last week, the board hired
temporary workers to spend the
next several months searching
through nearly 100 large file
drawers full of investigative pa
per work about thousands of phy
sicians, officials said.
The information should be
transferred to the board’s com
puter system by August, when it
can be released to health care
agencies.
Health agencies that send the
board a written request will be
told which of their doctors have
had a complaint filed against
them, the nature of the complaint
and whether the board’s investi
gation has been completed, offi
cials said. Any public disciplinary
action also will be given to the
health agencies.
The board plans to release only
a general description of the com
plaint, and will not disclose the
full investigative file, board offi
cials said.
Paul Gavia, director of en
forcement for the medical board,
said the board plans to write let
ters to all physicians against
whom the board has received
complaints. The letters will tell
the physicians that information
about their complaints will be re
leased to hospitals, nursing
homes and other health-care enti
ties.
Board officials noted that a
complaint filed against a doctor
does not mean the doctor is in
competent or in violation of the
Texas Medical Practice Act. A
complaint is an allegation usually
made by a patient or a colleague.
Businesses fight for released convicts Warped
by Scott Medullar
Huntsville (ap) — Busi--
tessesjust down the street from the
gi gate where Texas Department
Corrections inmates re-enter the
world are squabbling again over
ifons to lure ex-cons to spend part
Hm $200 release checks.
For some seven years, pawn shop
•wners J.D. Davis and Jerry Anglin
competed for the trade of ex-
ners in need of clothes and bus
|s home.
he businesses even used every-
g from preachers to pretty girls
ncourage newly freed inmates
until Huntsville city officials
clamped down last year by enforcing
a so-called “hawking” ordinance to
control street hustling.
City officials also used off-duty
police officers to park outside the
two businesses — a block from the
Walls Unit — to keep the peace.
Now a new taxi company has ar
rived and apparently has upset the
delicate balance that has kept things
relatively quiet.
“Everyone’s jockeying for position
again,” Huntsville City Manager
Gene Pipes said.
Carl Huffstickler, released from
prison after serving three months of
a three-year marijuana possession
sentence, won a license from city of
ficials to operate Freedom Cab.
Then he joined Margie Allen, who is
running her ailing father’s 50-year-
old Quick Service Taxi, to take in
mates out of town.
That has upset Davis, whose busi
ness houses the Trailways Bus Sta
tion, giving him an edge because ex
convicts had to go in his store to get
bus tickets.
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