Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley <=-

"Great" orchestral works in the day, were intended
to be as disposable as last weeks news.

Yes... and the same also applies to various other
types of music. I heard that a patron of J.S. Bach, for
example, insisted on a new chorale every week. It seems
the desire for novelty has been a factor for a long time.
;-)

I lumped everything with an orchestra into "orchestral". I guess opera needs stage direction also, but to my limited exposure it's the same boat. Now that you mention it, works of a choir would also apply to the "pop" category of yore. B-]

If the latest work wasn't "greater" than last weeks,
the composer was considered a has-been.

To this day, folks in the entertainment business say "you're only as good as your last [gig]". But once in awhile a song
which has dropped off the Top Ten list will eventually
resurface as a Golden Oldie or whatever. I had a Beatles
poster in my band classroom after the initial excitement
had subsided, and was often asked "Who are the Beatles?"

They did it their way! <L>

Now our daughter's favourite radio station includes Beatles
songs in their regular Classic Rock program. I still
chuckle over the incident several years ago at a family campout when a teenage girl was listening to Beatles music on a portable
CD player & the parents were able to identify every one of
the songs after hearing the initial chords. The usual
drill is that teenagers love the music their parents love
to hate & vice versa. The Beatles were young when they
created this stuff... and in order to benefit personally
from the Classic rating, one has to live long enough. As I
understand the situation most people didn't three or four
centuries ago. :-))

For such a bunch of hard workers, it's a bit anticlimactic that Hey Jude was one of their last hits. Maybe a sign that their paths were diverging.

But today, why is it that Smoke On The Watter is still in rotation? When my sister expounded about the joy she receives from classic rock, all I could think was the work that I associate with performing the same songs I couldn't be bothered *hearing* any more. I *guess* I growed up. <snobby G> She - and MANY others - harkens back to her youth. I remember how silly I must have been picturing myself a rock-star while covering others material.

I laughed at myself when I forgot to bring the fever
thermometer on a camping trip & soon realized we didn't
need it.

with what information is "at hand". <chuckle>

I hear you. Oncology parents are a special breed, though!

Something that was tweaking my supposition ever since I last wrote. I also realized I was hypotensive (Low BP, right?) as a result of my last wasp sting.

And as it happened there were other families with us on that
particular occasion who were in similar circumstances.
BTW... since you expressed some puzzlement regarding triage
elsewhere... we've found ways of getting attention promptly:

In that environment, I have *no* problem being a low priority and skipping the line wasn't my intent. Two of my visits were to a ward where they have three entrances into treatment. One is a fast lane to plumbing, another is what appears to be a revolving door, and the middle door is where I was stuck. (Something I *should* be used to by now. ;-) Sure, for a CT scan I can understand the wait but, the second time was to check for anemia. There just seemed like that could have been expedited. A low priority to be sure, but there seemed little reason for the wait unless they wanted to see if I'd faint in the interim.

1) You can't breathe. This condition may kill you within
minutes if somebody doesn't do something about it right away.

Survival school 101: Air, H2O, sustenance. I expect if you complained that you haven't urinated in three days, you'd get door number two? <snicker>

2) You arrive with a towel wrapped around some part of
your anatomy, and with blood spurting from an artery. This may take

awhile

longer to kill you... but if you get blood on the floor, somebody will

have

to clean it up. The
cleaning staff have been cut back & other folks are
terrified that you may
have AIDS or some other dreadful disease.

Besides the hepatitis scare, that stuff can be slippery! <L>

3) You arrive with a little kid who has no measurable
white blood cells & who has had a high fever for three hours.

...

we'd like to send Nora to the oncology ward we said
"Yes, please".... ;-)

My main reason to not being greedy. I know I'm useful to entertain a kid in a waiting room and I'm all too willing to volunteer for that. <giggle>

When you had internal bleeding after surgery, the cause & severity of the symptoms were less obvious. That's the sort of
situation where the patient may feel frustrated over long
delays etc. We had much the same experience with Nora's
stroke, as my parents evidently did with theirs... (sigh).

Again, a time sensitive treatment *must* be fast-tracked, and I have limited understanding about what constitutes their priorities. (I know that there is a time limit on blood thinners for stroke patients, but I'm even foggy on that if it *is* blood thinners that are prescribed and why it can do more damage after that amount of time... ... ...) When a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, I'll gladly stand at the front of that line, but my logistics muscle was telling me that a blood test doesn't have to burn a quarter of a day.



... James
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