Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazz--good jazz--is America's only original contribution to the music of the world", continued Professor Hill. It reveals a typical American mood and possesses a new and vital-rhythm. How far that mood and rhythm may be applied to what you probably call 'highbrow' music remains to be seen. Some American composer with a proper sense of style who is well grounded in both types of music may embody all the features of jazz in a symphonic composition...
...musical chorus." But for all his clownishness he has far more real art bottled up inside him than in many a man who scorns the idea of "jazz." Expressiveness is combined with restraint to a degree seldom attained in any kind of a performance-- and as a master of rhythm no one even approaches him! Frankly, we could have listened to him for hours more...
...refused to acknowledge the plaudits accorded him. During the Cathedrale Engloutie, which he played with a truly magnificent tone, and great beauty, he was still plainly "rattled". The other Debussy, and the Spanish numbers, he played as only he could play them, with a completely captivating sense of rhythm and color...
...Davison had just finished a piano example of several bits of ultra-modern music which sounded very much like some of the music of the early middle ages, examples of which he had also given. These ultro-modern wisps of music seemed a jumble of discords, seemed to disregard rhythm, and grated upon the ear. Yet, Dr. Davison did not condemn this type of music but spoke of it rather as a forerunner of an entirely different type of music which future generations would appreciate and think superior to the music of the present generation...
Herta Breit, aged 11, paints tender little watercolors. Anneliese Freisler, 10, draws a Mrs. Profiteer with a biting touch of social satire. Ed Viet, 12, and Grete Hanus, 13, model little wax figures with a profound sense of rhythm. Franz Probst, 13, has an exciting vision of the Russian Revolution. Grete Blatny, 13, paints a Tyrolese wedding party. These young people are students in the art school of Dr. Frank Cizek in Vienna...