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...council will also include Dr. Thomas P. Monath, vice president of the Cambridge-based biotechnology firm Acambis; Dr. Carol Ann Rauch, a bioterrorism specialist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield; and state Department of Public Health Commissioner Howard Koh. Richard S. Swensen, the state’s Director of Commonwealth Security will lead the council...
...Thomas Monath, an expert on mosquito-borne diseases, says it could have been carried by someone recently arrived from southern Russia, currently the site of a large West Nile outbreak. If mosquitoes had gorged on his blood, they could have transmitted the virus to birds by biting them in turn--thus starting an infectious cycle deadly for some humans and birds, though never for the carrier Culex pipiens. It's a scenario, says Monath, that's become increasingly common in a jet-setting...
Died. Hortense Monath, 51, topflight concert pianist, program director and co-founder (in 1936) of Manhattan's famed New Friends of Music, first American woman pianist to solo with the NBC Symphony (1941); in Manhattan...
When Soprano Lotte Lehmann, hired for a selected group of Schubert Lieder, complained that the management had refused to sell extra seats on the stage, and that she felt lonely without a stageful of her devoted admirers, Impresario Monath fixed her with a steely stare. "Mme. Lehmann," said she coldly, "you are not alone on the stage. Franz Schubert is with...
Even the most astute of Manhattan musical managers prophesied that Impresario Monath's funereally earnest concert-giving would end in a bust. But Manhattan concertgoers bought out 97% of the first season's tickets before she had even presented her first concert. Today, the New Friends still operate without the help of wealthy patrons, still qualify as one of the very few entirely self-supporting high-brow musical institutions...