Word: rhythmics
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...sketched against a background of moaning strings and sudden percussive bursts, followed the austere style of the ancient gagaku court music of Japan, then shifted in the second movement to a distinctly Western hymnal theme. In the final movement, strains of East and West were interlaced in a rapid rhythmic pattern between the koto, flute and harp. Though sometimes lost in the thicket of strings, the high-strung koto proved a solo instrument of intriguing versatility. At the end, Stokowski locked arms with Eto and led him on and off the stage for three curtain calls...
...Architecture and dance can be very similar in spatial and rhythmic elements as well as design," Miss Kirpich explained. She added, however, that while the dance will not attempt to reproduce the building which inspired its creation, the two art forms will be recognizably similar in general atmosphere...
SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Deutsche Grammophon). Robert Schumann called it the "symphony of heavenly length," and Karl Böhm and the Berlin Philharmonic just let it flow. There is no feeling of thrust; the rhythmic divisions are as natural as breathing, and Schubert's last and greatest symphony emerges clear, bright and grandly melodious...
...wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack towns along the Sulu Sea. Daughters of wealthy Manila socialites sport names like "Ting-Ting" and take ballet lessons, while at an annual festival at Obando, childless women perform a rhythmic fertility dance coaxing the saints to help them conceive. Polo is played in Manila, but headhunting is occasionally still the game in the wild, distant mountains of northern Luzon...
Hubert warmed up with a long tribute to the President, then hit his stride as he began a rhythmic jabbing and chopping at Barry Goldwater. "Most Democrats and Republicans in the Senate voted for an $11.5 billion tax cut for American citizens and American business," he cried, "but not Senator Goldwater. Most Democrats and Republicans in the Senate-in fact four-fifths of the members of his own party -voted for the Civil Rights Act, but not Senator Goldwater...