Word: rhythmic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Mitchell. The dancing for the most part was sinuous and tentative, borrowing some of its movements from the Lindy Hop, but on the whole avoiding the Lindy's frenzied exuberance. Schuller's score was the essence of the "cool"-spare, fragmentary, resembling jazz only in its rhythmic drive. Like some of Schuller's other recent work, it represented an attempt to weld jazz and classical music in what he himself refers to as Third Stream Music. Unfortunately, the stream never seemed to be flowing anywhere...
...single blue bulb, revolved by hand in careful rhythmic paths, was used to suggest the atom's 92 electrons. The position of the camera was shifted constantly; 33 different time exposures were made and four separate lenses were used before Goro finally finished his picture...
...music is more than good, and the dances heralding the arrival of a gypsy troupe are exceptionally lively, rhythmic, and pleasing. The choreography is well-done, and the costuming as successful as it always is when you dress people up in foreign-looking attire. An hour and a half is a lot of ballet, at least in the movies, but it is not too much...
Piercing Whistle. The rain-drenched crowd chanted a rhythmic "Algerie Franqaise" and accompanied the refrain with piercing three-short and two-long whistles. Ignoring the clamor, De Gaulle climbed from his car, waved cordially, and entered the town hall to address local dignitaries. When he emerged, the square reverberated with caterwauling shouts and whistles. De Gaulle ambled in his camel gait straight into the crowd at the point where the shouting was loudest. Startled Europeans fell back. Some were so nonplused that they paused in mid-scream to shake his hand...
...rare LP recording of one of the early Prokofiev symphonies all but forgotten in Western concert halls. The composer here is less acerbic, more expansive than in the Scythian Suite or Love for Three Oranges, and the score is curiously uneven, mingling occasional film-score banalities with splendid rhythmic inventions...