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Conductors of symphony orchestras are not the only musicians complaining about hectic schedules and overwork these days. Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck has abandoned his quartet. After 16 years spent in demonstrating that jazz can be for the mind as well as the emotions, Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) decided to cut down on performing and devote more time to composing. Last week he sat in the Wilton, Conn., glass-and-stone house that he built four years ago, tinkering with final revisions on the first fruits of his lei sure-a 63-minute oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness...
...week later he goes over the hill. Quickly trapped, he remains indomitable, escaping again and again-only to be caught each time. By now he has become almost a legend to the prisoners, who vicariously enjoy his flings at freedom. But when the jailers beat and overwork Luke until he grovels at their feet for mercy, the inmates turn their backs on him. Luke, played by Newman with his customary cocky resilience, has one more race up his sleeve, steals a truck when the guards casually turn their backs on him, and zooms off. Chain Gang showed Paul Man failing...
...overwork that laid Dr. Page low. It was not even stress, as commonly understood. It was, as he now acknowledges, what other cardiologists at San Francisco defined as a "Type A" personality-characterized by the drive and competitiveness that compels some to take on more tasks than they should ("Type B" types take things much more easily). Dr. Page had previously paid little attention to the relation between personality and heart disease. Now he recognizes that there was a Type A factor in his own attack...
...leaving the Vienna Opera in 1907, Mahler learned that he had a serious heart ailment. He said his farewell to earthly joys and confronted death in the hauntingly bittersweet song cycle Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) and the coolly spiritual Ninth Symphony. Weakened by overwork, he caught a streptococcus infection while struggling feverishly with his Tenth Symphony ("The devil is dancing with me!" he scrawled in the margin), and died at 50 in 1911. His life was incomplete but, as he once expressed it, "I am a musician; that says everything...
King absolves teachers of blame for overwork. The teachers, he argues, "are trapped by the demands of parents and by the demands of colleges and their ever-increasing standards for admission. The teacher is forced into the role of the overseer driving with a whip." King's remedy: more attention to student welfare. "The student," he says, "has a right to receive individual attention and a right to proceed at his own rate...