Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical problems in the performance of choral music of different periods. Dynamics, rhythm, tempo, basso continuo, instrumental accompaniments, number of performers, balance of parts, and related problems of style, approached historically and analytically...
...Broadway's Iceland Restaurant a new, five-man band made its debut, under moon-faced Drummer Paul Whiteman Jr., 21-year-old son of the moon-faced "King of Jazz." Paul Jr.'s own billing: "The Crown Prince of Rhythm...
...Collins for herself. Julia Lee heard out the story of the blonde's wayward husband, then said with professional assurance: "Everything's going to turn out all right, honey." Then it was time for her act. From her piano, Julia beat out a boogie-woogie rhythm with her strong left hand and sang in a dark purple contralto her own Julia's Blues...
Unlike the present crop of blues singers, most of whom indulge in manic-depressive moans, Julia sings her blues with an exuberant bounce which she calls "Kansas City style with a terrific rhythm." On her piano stands a white porcelain "kitty," where fans stuff as much as $60 a night (in addition to her $150 weekly salary). Beside her is a pitcher of water, to wash down the jiggers of bourbon which customers buy her. As a kind of jolly mother confessor to the depressed spirits in the audience, Julia usually ends up a group of songs with an invitation...
Winters admits that in many of Robinson's poems there is a frosty New England eccentricity, "an intellectualism which is clever rather than perceptive, and which reduces his dry rhythm to [a] jingling parlor verse. ..." But Robinson rose above this, he thinks, in stanzas like these in Hillcrest...