Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshman John Perkins was piano soloist in his own Seven Experimental Preludes. It is hard to judge what he was experimenting with, since so much follows tried-and-true devices of harmony and rhythm. Yet despite the occasional cliches, Perkins' music has conciseness and proportion that looks forward to future achievement...
...Mulligan was great. Still using no piano, counting on drums and a bass to carry the rhythm, he skillfully traded melodic lines in fluid counterpoint with valve trombonist Bobby Brookmeyer. They played all the old Mulligan numbers--Motel, Lullaby of the Leaves, Sextet, My Funny Valentine--old because in only three years they have made their arranger famous for his style. The Mulligan sound is a low sound, a tense sound. Unlike Dixieland, it reaches no climaxes, and explodes in no blasting solos. Instead, it edges back and forth, finds harmony for a few lines, then slips off into exciting...
Thomas' own language intensifies the drawback of reading any work designed for radio. He achieves poetry in his choice of phrase, not in formal rhythm; and he has dotted the script with Anglo-Welsh words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks...
...type of phonemanship is the "Bell Method." In this ploy, one need only carry with him a set of bells. After having mastered the different sound combinations by which the operator can tell how much is put into the machine, the phonester merely taps his bells in the proper rhythm and places his call...
...eyes seem to be laughing most of the time. When it is announced that he will be preaching at the Duke chapel, students, faculty members and townsfolk get there 30 minutes early. They come to hear a man who uses his high-pitched voice like a musical instrument, whose rhythm, range and change of pace are far beyond the capabilities of mine-run preachers. But even more, they come to hear a man who uses his head and heart...