Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next work, "Divining", had its Boston premiere Wednesday night. Judith Jamison, a former Ailey dancer, choreographed this magnetic piece to music by Kimati Dimizulu and Monti Ellison. The music alternated between loud, whisting melodies and constant drum rhythms. The starkness of the beating drum focused all attention on the dancer's movements. In contrast to the first piece. Divining" was a study of movement that is nonetheless just as captivating...
Allio said this year's celebration may include elephants trotting down Mass. Ave. Other paraders will include Hasty Pudding men in drag, the Harvard University Band, the Cambridge Latin School Drum Corps, cheerleaders, jugglers and antique cars...
...alto, getting a soprano-like sound from it. His raw and driving post-bop sound combines with Roditi's bright, powerful trumpet as well as Portinho's samba beat and bassist Lincoln Goines, who is another Tania Maria veteran, uses his instrument to duplicate the sound of the surdo drum, the heart and soul of the samba...
...talking about an ordinary adolescent escape route here, something like the stamp collection or the drum set preordained for the parental attic. We are talking about a lad who would, if he could, become a bird. We are talking about an adolescent making a bird suit pasted together feather by feather and then launching himself off roofs and cliffs in an attempt to fly. And we are talking about a madness that is innocent, joyous and, finally, perhaps unconquerable and exemplary. Especially as it is presented by Matthew Modine in a brave performance--just over the top but under control...
...past two decades manned space missions by the U.S. have been the most public of spectacles. To drum up popular support, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration staged space shots as television melodramas. But when Space Shuttle Mission 51-C lifts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center next month, the flight will be shrouded in secrecy. For the first time in 45 U.S. manned space flights, reporters will not be supplied with the usual fact-stuffed press kits, or allowed to eavesdrop on communications between astronauts and Mission Control, or even permitted to follow the traditional countdown...