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...Thomson was ready to try human cells, but first he asked himself searching questions that endocrinologist James Prihoda, his college roommate, sees as a sign of his deep "respect for life and strong feeling that there is a purpose to it." Is this research ethical? Is it moral? Thomson, a nonpracticing Congregationalist who is married to a fellow scientist and is the father of two young children, wasn't sure. He read every study he could get his hands on and consulted, among others, University of Wisconsin bioethicists R. Alta Charo and Norman Fost. Since the embryos he planned...
Shaham's fun-loving energy carried over into the next piece on the program, an arrangement by the violinist Vasa Prihoda of the waltzes from Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier. The waltzes of Richard Strauss (better known as the "Waltz King" and composer of the famous Blue Danube Waltz) are always lush, sweeping and charmingly Romantic--an appropriately opulent depiction of turn-of-the-century Vienna. The problem in this piece was depicting the full orchestral grandeur of such a work with only an accompanied violin--a problem Gil Shaham easily overcame. His delivery of the waltzes was delightfully...
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