Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuge in the Hotel Atlantic, which had a reputation for lively dances every Friday and Saturday nights. Each of the bands that played had four or five drummers and percussionists, along with twenty or thirty fellow-travelers who banged on anything in reach. The message was plain: music is rhythm and the dancing rhythms were the best I had ever seen...
Drawing on both classical and jazz traditions, Taylor's music defies classification. Often described as a percussive pianist, Taylor needs no rhythm section to make his compositions swing, they do so inherently. Taylor hits the keyboard hard, stabbing out long strings of single notes, then suddenly plunges into heavy chords. The juxtaposition of the two is so rhythmic that at times it approaches a ragtime beat...
...away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer in the Fred Astaire mold...
Throughout the play we are barraged with creations like the horse that individually reflect great imagination but together conspire to break the play's rhythm and dwarf the actors' role. The designers, Peter Agoos and Franco Colavecchia, have produced aluminum trees that quality as sculpture but prove unwieldy and stunning wire masks for the stereotyped foreign companions aboard Peer's yacht that reveal their national character but muffle their voices...
Holder used the right rite. Last week The Wiz-an all-black rhythm-and-blues adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-won seven Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Musical, Choreography, Score, and two for Holder himself as Director and Costume Designer...