Word: downbeater
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...rapidly interwoven? "Watching Lennie do some parts of Scheherezade." says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration...
Battered but unbowed, Prawy persisted. Finally the state-subsidized Volksoper gave Prawy the downbeat. He picked a 1949 Broadway hit, Kiss Me, Kate...
...steady jazz clubs in Boston, each band-leader has his own name for the music he plays. At the Downbeat, Jay Mugliori calls it "contemporary"; at the Five O' Clock Club, Miles Davis plays "modern", and in The Stable, Varty Haroutunian says it's "progressive." But all play in Boston's warm style. Essentially it is a cross between the hot emotionalism of bebop and swing, and the intellectual coolness of the West Coast...
...first night out, the seven-week-old Downbeat is probably the best place to start. Although its warm music is so progressively esoteric to the novice as its competitors'. This club employs two singers, one an old-time blues artist, to break the monotony of the confusing jazz...
...final stages for the new-comer who has weathered the Stable and the Downbeat is the Five O' Clock Club, a purple-dark oblong room rebounding with modern jazz compositions. Although depending entirely on the interest a beginner shows in this local appreciation tour it may normally take several months before a college student brought up on two-beat Dixie, begins to feel the real "warmth" of Boston Jazz