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Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra (Chicago Symphony conducted by Rafael Kubelik; Mercury). A pre-twelve-tone work (1909) by a man who had already turned his back on Wagner and Debussy. The score, which seeks to suggest the shrugs and nudges of one man's subconscious, ranges from vaporous to terrifying. Performance: excellent...
Other new records of note: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, played by a Viennese orchestra, chorus and soloists under the direction of Hermann Scherchen (Westminster, 4 LPs); all ten of Beethoven's Violin & Piano Sonatas, played by Violinist Joseph Fuchs and Pianist Artur Balsam (Decca; 5 LPs); Wagner's complete Tristan and Isolde, with Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler (Victor...
...Greeks sponge on the Conch sponging grounds. The Conchs steal the Greeks' catch. The Paris of the piece (Robert Wagner) then runs away with its Helen (Terry Moore), the daughter of the Big Conch himself. Together they go out to the diver-dreaded twelve-mile reef. The underwater photography here is pleasant, but hardly striking. However, the climactic fight with an octopus is staged well enough, and everything comes epically to an end with a line not even Homer could have written. Says Paris, by way of offering peace to Helen's father...
Though housing is often the most critical, it is by no means the only problem that patients lay before Mrs. Wagner, a stocky, pink-faced woman of 42, and members of her staff. Since 90% of the tax-supported cancer hospital's patients are charity cases, drawn from all over Texas, most are grievously ill when they arrive and are far from home or relatives. They face long and perhaps uncomfortable treatment. They do not know what to expect...
Courage on the Plains. "We have to make the patient feel that the staff is interested in him as a person," says Edna Wagner. "We explain that he may have several days of tests before the doctors decide on the treatment for his case. We may remind a wind-tanned cowpoke from Lubbock, who's telling of the rugged old days on the plains, that he may need some of that same courage here. We have to reassure some, like the old Negro who said: 'I ain't afraid of dying-I'm just afraid...