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Robotic-Assisted Valve Surgery At Cleveland Clinic

Weston Hospital Got Joe Back On Stage

Joe Santoro had been dealing with mitral valve disease for of the S. Donald Sussman Distinguished Chair in Heart and
almost a decade when his cardiologist told him that the new Vascular Research.
symptoms he had were caused by an additional heart condition Joe’s procedure was the fourth performed by Cleveland
– atrial fibrillation. His doctor advised him to undergo a Clinic Weston Hospital after the Cardiac Robotic Program was
procedure to treat the valve disease. Joe, a first-grade teacher launched in January 2022. The hospital is the only center in
and musician, decided to get a second opinion. He chose South Florida that offers robotically assisted mitral valve repair.
Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital, where he met with Jose L. Back With The Band
Navia, M.D., director of Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Three weeks after Joe’s robotically-assisted valve repair
Thoracic Institute in Florida. surgery, he was back to normal activities. His band played
“After seeing Dr. Navia, I knew there were more options,” a gig – and he played right along with them.
Joe says. “I was jumping around, playing guitar and singing. I felt
A Better, Faster Process instruments are sized to allow for more precise movements. perfectly fine. It was amazing,” Joe says. Thanks to this new
Joe chose a robotically-assisted approach to his mitral valve The patient benefits from less trauma to the chest, which allows approach to valve repair, Joe was able to get back to doing
repair surgery because it was less invasive than traditional for a better, faster healing process. the things he loved faster than if he had undergone a more
open-heart surgery and he would heal faster. “A robotically-assisted approach for valve repair surgery traditional heart surgery.
During this robotically-assisted procedure, the surgeon is the ultimate new use for technology,” Navia says. “This Patients from across the United States, Latin America
sits at a console in the operating room. The console provides approach provides the patient with a better option to have a and the Caribbean turn to Cleveland Clinic Weston
a high-definition, 10x magnified view of the patient’s valve. durable repair or replacement of the valve.” Hospital for lifesaving treatment options. To schedule an
From the console, the surgeon directs robotic arms to move An international leader and pioneer in cardiothoracic appointment with a heart specialist, call (877) 463-2010 or
surgical instruments through a small incision. The surgical surgical techniques and devices, Navia is the inaugural holder visit ClevelandClinicFlorida.org/Heart to learn more.
Review Of Palm Beach Symphony

Pinchas Zukerman And The Mozart was a good violinist, but as a teenager moved to had succeeded Arturo Toscanini as conductor of the New
the forte piano, preferring the new musical improvement
York Philharmonic in 1937. He made demands of the city
Palm Beach Symphony of the harpsichord. alderman and they let him rebuild The Halle, decimated
This violin concerto with its gossamer light tunes and by the war, to 95 players.
By Rex A. Hearn folksy fiddling pleased the huge audience greatly, you A young 16-year-old, Oliver Bannister, became lead
Monday, Jan. 15 at the could have heard a pin drop their interest was so focused. flutist; a woman from the Salvation Army Band led the
Kravis Center was a night to And now for the Sibelius Second Symphony. During trombone section, the highly esteemed, Maisie Ringham.
remember. So many artistic the Second World War I lived in Manchester, England. And Joyce Aldous was the timpanist. And so on. A year
forces came together to Incendiary bombs destroyed my father’s manicured lawns into his tenure they tackled Sibelius’s Second. It turned
make it an evening of sweet in 1941, but did not go off! My introduction to Sibelius me into a believer. And it’s on an early L.P. recording
memories. First came was twofold. The BBC constantly played Finlandia by which I still have. Maestro Gerard Schwarz and his Palm
Adolphus Hailstork’s Four Sibelius to raise morale. Churches even put words to its Beach Symphony Orchestra gave the performance of their
Hymns Without Words a magnificent ending. lives last night. It was a brilliant interpretation. Kudos
delightful, tuneful work for At 16, the war over, a colorful conductor from to all and especially conductor Schwarz for rebuilding
solo trumpet, masterfully America took the podium of my local orchestra, The this wonderful orchestra which now surely stands equal
played by world renowned Halle, founded in 1848. It was Sir John Barbirolli who to and along with America’s big five.
Craig Morris, who now holds the chair of trumpet
professor in Miami’s Frost School of Music. Hailstork’s
Four Hymns reminds one of America’s wide open spaces,
its lovely original tunes and style surely influenced by
that other great American composer, Aaron Copland.
Originally written for organ accompaniment, this inspired
orchestration begins brightly continuing with touches of
swing and jazz rhythms, spirituals and “western music”
reminiscent of Ferde Grofe. The trumpet sounds out
some very catchy tunes in each of the four movements. It
reassures the listener the “school of cacophony” has been
overcome by this wonderful composer, now in his 80s
teaching at Old Dominion University. The Palm Beach
Symphony accompanied trumpeter Morris with delicacy
throughout except for a couple of French horn fluffs in
their entrances. They redeemed themselves in the Sibelius
Second Symphony later.
The incomparable Pinchas Zukerman appeared next to
play two pieces for violin and orchestra. His services to
music are legendary beginning as a solo violist moving
on to form his own chamber groups: an orchestra, quartet
and trio and now as an accomplished solo violinist with
the most refined sound you ever heard. He began with
Tchaikovsky’s Memory of a Dear Place. It’s a slow
movement originally written for his magnificent violin
concerto. But, for reasons unknown he put it to one side.
At the time he was recovering from a nervous breakdown.
Published posthumously in 1896 and orchestrated by the
young composer Alexander Glazunov, it is dedicated to
the Ukrainian village of Brailove, where Tchaikovsky
recovered. Dear Place is a somewhat romantic piece
in which the violinist seems to sing over the orchestral
accompaniment, and sing Zukerman did with such an
exquisite sweet tone. Tchaikovsky referred to its closing
as “a song without words.” Indeed it was a delight.
The Mozart violin concerto followed, No. 3 (of 5)
Kochel Listing No. 216, same solo violinist, Pinchas
Zukerman in fine form. Mozart’s father was a violinist,
author of the seminal book on violin technique of 1756.