Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Show Case (Decca). An album of six records by one of the top U. S. rhythm bands. Noteworthy items : I'm Prayin' Humble, a richly orchestrated hymn originated by Mitchell's Christian Singers (TIME, Jan. 2); The Big Noise from Winnetka, dog-house fiddle and drum duet by Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc...
Above the drum roll which U. S. parsons beat week in, week out, a flute note piped up last week. The flutist was feminine. In Manhattan's Town Hall, under the auspices of the League for Political Education, a comely young Ph. D. named Ruth Alexander pleaded religion's cause in a lecture, Religion as a Force in Government, which she has delivered up & down the land...
...slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo a vertical ribbon of cold green light vibrates on the screen, sways against a violet background. Drum beats appear as expanding dark blobs and are wiped away. A piano solo sprinkles the screen with mercurial, pearly beads...
...They are first drawn on large celluloid sheets, superimposed and then photographed one by one. Len Lye, however, paints or stencils his designs by hand, slowly and methodically, on the thin ribbon of film stock itself. Some of the names Len Lye gave to musical effects: "a splurged woomph" (drum beat), "a zing-a-zing-a-zing-a-zing" (violin), "flutter" (clarinet...
Some historical plays, to be sure, are made of sterner stuff and use the past for what it can say to the present. In Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Playwright Sherwood beats the drum for liberal democracy; in Knickerbocker Holiday, the author of High Tor gives comfort to high Tories...