Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-awaited score proved to be typical Orff, avoiding such devices as standard harmonic progressions or even the modern "tone row." Instead, it sustained for page after page a single chordal theme, varied only with starkly primitive rhythm in the orchestra and percussion-punctuated declamation by the singers. The work was typical, too, in its close welding of music to text (by 18th century German Poet Friedrich Hölderlin). The oddly assorted orchestra-which included four pianos for eight players, four harps, a glass harmonica, marimbaphone, xylophones, bongos, congas, gongs and no strings except for nine double basses-served...
...method of birth control-including abstinence from intercourse-is sinful. But if they should not be having a child-for economic, psychological or physical reasons-they are under obligation to use the most effective methods to prevent it. "We are not permitted to use a chancy method, like the rhythm method, which some have called 'Vatican roulette,' when a more medically sound approach is available...
...span of 350 years is a lot to pack into a novel. Yugoslavian Author Andric does it in a splendidly evocative story of his home town, for centuries a meeting place of many races and a target for a variety of conquerors. There is no plot except the rhythm of war and peace, life and death...
...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
...died in 1955. Conductor Schippers provided a well-balanced performance, nicely graduated to Soprano Leontyne Price's clear and controlled reading of the text. If the piece itself had a weakness, it was the tendency to overly luxuriant melody, at odds with the simplicity and the subtle rhythm of the language. Example: the line "he has coiled the hose'' had Soprano Price soaring dramatically over a pointlessly billowing sheen of strings. Barber's Knoxville was at its best when it was least pretentious, matching with quiet lyricism Agee's poetic vision of a remote summer...