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...Diehl got alarmed enough to call in another doctor. He prescribed an antibiotic (tetracycline) to guard against a second, bacterial infection, and an antihistaminic (Chlor-Trimeton), and told her to breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared a room, with three croup kettles steaming through the night...
...both the lyric and the dramatic moods than she is, and none possesses a voice that is more secure throughout its considerable range-the G below middle C to the D above high C. Says she: "I never try an F in public. I sometimes do it in the shower, but there I may just be intoxicated by the soap...
Because she wanted to help her Brother George through college, she signed up for a teacher's training course (he later went through South Carolina State on a full athletic scholarship). But she kept on singing-in the glee club, the choir, the dormitory shower. Even as a freshman she had what a friend remembers as "a star quality." Once she was stopped by hazing upperclassmen and ordered to sing: "Well, she just sang-the song was Because-and when she stopped, everyone just stood there. Her voice took them so much by surprise they stopped hazing...
Although Dodecaphonist Dallapiccola believes that his spiritual brother is James Joyce (he has read Ulysses eight times), Variations sounds more like a page out of Kafka. It opens with a funereal, ghostlike theme in the strings, erupts in a chilling shower of brasses, sinks to a series of restless, enervated whispers. Percussive and rhythmically complex throughout, it is scored sparely, skillfully using small instrumental combinations in strange, exhilarating blends of sound. What sets it apart from much of the desiccated twelve-tone music of the Viennese school is its sense of passion: Dallapiccola, however his music may suffer, always seems...
...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 note of despair; the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956), whose stabbing, fragmented salvos of sound hit the listener like an icy shower...