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...Kevorkian % of Michigan continues to make his own bizarre kind of house calls, providing the advice and equipment that have helped six of his patients take their own lives in the past two years. The last to die was a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman suffering from cancer. Catherine Andreyev used a mask to inhale a fatal dose of carbon monoxide last Monday in Waterford, Michigan...
Died. Andrei Andreyev, 76, former deputy of Joseph Stalin and one of the Soviet Union's most durable Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow. Virtually unknown outside the U.S.S.R., Andreyev was a ruthless administrator who, as head of the nation's outmoded railway system during the early 1930s, ordered malingering workers shot. Later entrusted with responsibility for postwar farm collectivization, he was blamed by Stalin for agricultural failures and purged from the Politburo. However, he re-emerged shortly after the dictator's death as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a post he held...
ROGER SESSIONS: SUITE FROM "THE BLACK MASKERS" (Mercury). The 1923 music has a weird and unsettling effect, befitting the Leonid Andreyev drama for which it was written; the black maskers of the title are supposed to be the powerful but unfathomable forces that act on man's soul. Three other short, appealing works by Americans (Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness) are played by Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra...
Composer Ward, who earns his living as the editor of a music publishing house, has written four symphonies, a number of songs and chamber pieces, and one other opera-He Who Gets Slapped, based on the play by Leonid Andreyev. He wrote The Crucible in one year, in the study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg...
...most immediately appealing work on the program was also one of the earliest-Suite from "The Black Maskers," written as accompaniment to Leonid Andreyev's drama when Sessions was 26, and cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string passages and raucously braying brasses, it gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated...