Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...inevitability in our ears." His arias come to him easily, his long recitatives more painfully. "The hardest work I do," he says, "is on the little musical phrases in the recitatives that no one but a few astute musicians hear." He has made a lilting, hurdy-gurdyish ¾rhythm, among other musical devices, particularly...
There are six courses required for concentrators. The most basic of these, Music 51, has prerequisites calling for reasonable facility at the piano (including sight reading) and a sense of pitch and rhythm...
...successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings back in the '20s, said with a big grin, "It's my first love. It's kicks...
...boldly original harmonically and rhythmically, No. 5 seemed always fresh and not too hard to take. Dallas Times-Herald Critic Clay Bailey wished for "greater contrast among the movements, but the piece's general expressivity and happy variations of rhythm and mood are compensating factors." The Dallas News's John Rosenneld found it "effective in its modest design...
...said in poetic drama that can't be said in poetic drama that can't be said in the ordinary speech of prose drama." That he is right, there can be no argument. But while the dialogue of "The Cocktail Party" has wit, intelligence, and a genteel flow and rhythm-all of which are certainly desirable in verse drama-one is not altogether sure that what Mr. Eliot has to say could not just as well have been said in prose. None of the poetry of "The Cocktail Party" really illuminates any untapped wells of thought or beauty. I have...