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...vice president of patient-care services at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut. "There are models of patient-focused care, such as the Planetree model, that make patients the priority," she wrote. At Griffin, "patients are able to read--and write on--their medical charts," explained Lang. "There is a piano in each unit and a kitchen where families can cook meals. Griffin has round-the-clock visiting hours and care-partner rooms where family members can stay with patients." Technicians, stressed Werdal, can--and should--be trained and regarded as caregivers who can work alongside nurses. "We teach kindness...
...host and arbiter; one assumes that Justice Scalia was unavailable.) No matter; the bathing suits stayed, and the pageant remains a context for the exhibition of perfection--that is, if one's view of perfection includes a woman who, upon one's return home, is pounding the piano and belting out an aria from Carmen at the top of her wonderful lungs...
Among the upcoming events in the Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series are the Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Part 1, featuring Seymour Lipkin, on Oct.20, a recital of works by Mozart, Bach, Couperin, and Haydn for harpsihord and flute on Oct. 27, and the Borromeo String Quartet performing Dvor ak and Mozart on Nov.3. All concerts begin at 1:30 pm and the $9 fee for college students includes museum admission. For more information about upcoming concerts and ticket information, call...
...music boom, Mr. Wispelwey emerged as one of Europe's first general specialists, performing on both modern and historical instruments. Purists delight in the integrity of hearing a Scarlatti sonata on harpsichord or a Telemann fantasy with an oboe d'amore, as opposed to the anachronistic performance on modern piano and clarinet. Fans extoll the virtues of hearing the compositions of such Baroque uber-studs as they would have been heard once upon a time. For this, the unaccustomed ear might have been a little challenged upon hearing the more delicate and subdued tonal color of Wispelwey's early eighteenth...
...dissonant sound, like the sound created by an untuned piano, is generally unpleasant. A consonant sound is more pleasing to hear...