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...play. He led the team with seven tackles. The third interception came from sophomore Derrick Barker. Barker struggled in the Holy Cross game, and the second-year player had a tough start to the day, matched up against speedy Brown receiver Paul Raymond. But he found more of a rhythm in the second half—his interception was the clincher, coming with just over 1:30 left in the game. The spirit of the defense in the second half is promising for a squad that has to travel to Lehigh next weekend and face dual-threat quarterback Sedale Threatt...
...clinical finishing to guide it to a relatively easy finish.“We really came out strong and played great defense,” Byrd said. “Our defensive stops fueled our counter-attacks on offense, which allowed our offense to start picking up a good rhythm.”The Crimson’s held a 5-1 advantage at the end of the first half. Livingston led the way with a hat trick while Ludwick chipped in two clutch goals. The freshmen got in on the act as well—Voith scored a couple...
...Much of west Africa's rich musical heritage is born out of the "griots" tradition - a caste of wandering musicians who use music to tell oral history, a bit like bards in medieval Europe. Modern-day griots also use rhythm and rhyme to help raise local awareness of issues like HIV-AIDS, a tradition which has been usurped by a new generation of young musicians. "I don't want to just play music, I have a mission to wake up African people," explains Kane...
...During theBig Band era, drummers unobtrusively maintained a song's rhythm. As a founding father of the revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown...
...Soon enough, the starving-artist types began to get paying work in the new Germany - film roles, book deals, selling paintings banned by the communist authorities. The streets of Prenzlauer Berg pulsated night after night to the rhythm of dancing bodies, flowing cash and a consensual belief there was nowhere else in the world better to be at that precise moment...