Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hector Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs, $23.94). Rhythm and an instinct for drama animate Ozawa's shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi...
...consistency and authority. The first half of the play is spent introducing the characters and establishing the situation. Scenes follow in quick succession without every building on one another, either in mood or characterization. The second half works much better as the mood darkens and intensifies and a dramatic rhythm is established and builds toward the climax...
...Dinner's not done yet," smiles Joni, as the sweet-and-sour aromas of cooking drift through the open door, "but come back to the kitchen anyway. It's the best room in the house." Walking past packing boxes, a Tahitian rhythm drum and half a dozen guitars splayed next to a piano, Joni pirouettes proudly. "Isn't this a great old place? It was built in 1929. Look, it even has a hidden bathroom" (behind a wooden panel in the corridor wall...
...troubadour of American painting. His work, well represented in this book, ranges over all regions and periods, from Hollywood sets to Southeastern tobacco farms, from battles between Indians and settlers to World War II. Throughout, in a distinctive style, dynamic, sinuous but often lumpishly awkward, he affectionately illustrates the rhythm, energy and drama of American life...
...Coed" of the 1930s; of pulmonary obstruction and diabetes; in Hollywood. One of the "singing Lane sisters" who broke into movies with Bandleader Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Rosemary starred in the 1937 musical Varsity Show, appeared with Rudy Vallee in Gold Diggers in Paris, and Time Out for Rhythm. She also played in such popular B-grade films as She Couldn't Say No and Always a Bride...