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THE KANSAS AND BURGE UNIONS
Bernstein's doctor says no performing
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Maestro Leonard Bernstein has stepped down from the podium, perhaps for the last time, because of a lung tumor, emphysema and pulmonary infections, his publicist said yesterday.
Bernstein's doctor told the 72-year-old musician to stop conducting and performing on the piano, publicist Margaret Carson said. The announcement appeared to conclude a conducting career that was by far the greatest by a native-born U.S. musician.
"Leonard Bernstein will henceforth devote his professional energies to composing, writing and education." Carson said in a statement.
Bernstein's decision was met with dismay in the music world, especially at the New York Philharmonic, which he directed from 1958 to 1969.
"I receive this unfortunate news in utter shock," said Zubin Mehta, the Philharmonic's current music director. "One of the finest features of my music directorship in both New York and Israel was to have Leonard Bernstein as laureate conductor with both orchestras."
"I think it's a devastation for the whole music world and certainly no less for Mr. Bernstein himself," said David Barth, director of Tanglewood Music Center.
Bernstein last conducted Aug. 19 at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts. At the concert, he conducted Benjamin Britten's "Sea Interludes" and Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony". He had intended to conduct his own "Arias and Barcaroles" but turned that over to conduct Carl St. Clair because of fatigue.
Bernstein is still hoping to participate in an AIDS benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 28.
However, he has cancelled all his planned appearances with orchestras in New York, Israel, Vienna, London and festival orchestras
at Tanglewood; Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; and Japan.
Carson said Bernstein had been experiencing increased difficulty breathing during the past several weeks. Kevin M. Cahill, a physician, attributed the problem to the prolapse of his right hip. Bernstein has suffered for many years, complicated by a pleural tumor and pulmonary infections.
Bernstein, who has not been hospitalized. Carson said Bernstein planned to continue work on a new chamber music piece to be performed next spring, a new musical program by next summer and several educational, film and recording projects, as well as his memoirs.
Bernstein's first published composition was "The Clarinet Sonata" in 1942. He conducted his first symphony, the "Jeremiah," with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1944. That year he basilic hymns for the choir by Jerome Robins, opened and became the basis for the Broadway musical "On the Town."
After Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky died in 1951, Bernstein supervised the orchestra and conducting departments at Tangweelhan His first opera, "Trouble in Tahiti," was performed in 1962. He composed Can, Can, Can, and "West Side Story" in 1957.
In 1988, with his reputation spreading internationally, Bernstein became music director of the New York Philharmonic. He was the first and only American-born American musician, directing the nation's leading orchestra
Fresco in Sistine Chapel shows brain, doctor says
In 1969, he retired from the position to concentrate on composing and was appointed the Philharmonic's laureate conductor for life. In 1971, he led his 1,000th concert with the orchestra and has now conducted 1,244 New York Philharmonic concerts, more than any other conductor.
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam," painted on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, contains an image misunderstood for a brain that symbolizes God bestowing intellect on man, a doctor says.
The fresco, completed in 1512 for Pope Julius II, shows Adam and God reaching toward one another, arms outstretched, fingers almost touching. Many scholars have interpreted God bestowing the power of healing. God bestowing life on man.
But Frank Meshberger, a doctor at St. John's Medical Center in Anderson, Ind, says that Adam's eyes are already open, suggesting that he's aware of the pain intended the painting to portray God giving him the gift of intellect.
"Look at the image that surrounds God and the angels," Mesberger wrote in the Journal of the American Psychological Association. This image is the shape of a brain."
One art historian was skeptical.
"Holy mackerel! I never heard tell of such a thing," said Olan Rand, a
professor of art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Universities have said,
"I always thought it was a cloak."
Rand said yesterday, "I'd better go
look at it again."
Messenger said he had just finished dissecting and a drawing a brain in a medical school class in 1969 when he happened across a three-page fold-out photo of the painting in a magazine.
Mesberger said he waited 20 years to publish an article on it because he was busy establishing himself as a doctor and had little time to do research on Michelangelo's background.
"As a medical student, I was quite busy and, at the time, thought it was an interesting observation but didn't have time to look into it," he said.
Meshberger said that when he began researching the question years later, he learned that Michelangelo took to study the human form for his art.
He said artists who had access to the painting before this century generally weren't skilled in anatomy
OCTOGINTA '90
The traditional wind-up event of the bicycling season. October 12.13 & 14. Lawrence, Ks.
*Sunday, October 14, 8:00 a.m.
*Saturday, 90*
Octigrant. One of the original scenic routes has been chosen for this year's historic '80' mile tour through southern Douglas and Franklin Counties. There will be a mass start with police escort leading up to 8 a.m. Coffin Sports Complex, Haskell Indian Junior College. Please be registered and checked in by this time.
*Friday, October 12*
**THAPP**
5:30 p.m. Moonlight ride This leisure ride starts from South Park Gazebo. South Park is located at 12th and Massachusetts, just south of downtown Lawrence. Lights are required. No sag service. No fec. Distance: 17 miles.
*Saturday, October 13
*Saturday, October 16*
9:00 a.m. Tour De County Brunch Ride. Bring money for meal. Ride departs from Constant Park at 6th and Tennessee. Distance: 25 miles.
8:00 a.m. Time Tela
9:00 a.m.
Registration 7:45 8:30 a.m. Start/Finish on Douglas County road 442.
To get there take 23rd street 2.5 miles east of Haskell Ave. Watch for county road sign, and turn left.
- 1:00-4:00 Antique Bicycle Display.
- 1:00-8:00 p.m. Bring your old bikes and parts. Buy, sell or trade. Hiawatha Hall.
* 2:00-8:00 p.m.-Check-In Early! Pick up your Octogita Registration packets including maps and Instructions at Hiawatha Hall, Haskell Indian Junior College.
KU Bicycle Club
Announces its first meeting...
Tri-Athletes
Welcome
When: Tomorrow! Thursday, October 11 at 7:00. (Very Brief)
Where: Southwest Lobby of the Burge Union
Mountain Bike Rides
For More Information Call: Kevin McConkey-843-2923