Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proves Feeling For Rhythm...
Again and again Mr. Auslander proves his feeling for rhythm and his skill in versification. Here are the first two stanzas of "The Ship Sings...
...common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul: by Anton Chekov", the weary, straining rhythm of the Velga boat song,--these and a thousand others are cherished memories for the tens of thousands of Americans who have seen the Chauve-Souris in the past two years...
...planned to dedicate a whole week, throughout the U. S., to musical activities. Between May 4 and 10, churches, clubs, societies, schools, colleges, universities, radio stations, municipal departments, rural organizations, industrial plants, department stores will cooperate in bombarding the people with a continuous blast of melody and rhythm-by voices, trained and untrained, in solos, in chorus, by all manner and combinations of instruments, mouth-organs, pipe-organs. There will be lectures on music, hundreds and hundreds of recitals and concerts, articles in newspapers and magazines, exhibits of musical books in libraries. If each and every citizen does not then...
...Whiteman demanded, it did not seem to be so excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz has original and splendid rhythm and instrumentation, but the stalest and most banal of melody and harmony. The harmony adapts a few moderately recent quirks to the use of startling the popular ear. The themes used seem the most incredible bathos...