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...brilliantly parodied by an offstage male chorus singing a salty Latin text on the mating habits of ants; acidulous Stravinskyan brasses turn up in Act III. The real wonder is that despite the borrowing Composer Ronnefeld's score has a character of its own brash, melodramatic, full of rhythmic fire...
Title role of Persephone was danced by Lithuanian Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. heiress apparent to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Actually. Persephone's "dancing" proved to be little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold...
...music called bop which arose in the mid-40's represented a radical enlargement of the tonal and rhythmic language of traditional jazz. Yet it became clear after a few years that bop had its own limitations, but it had developed certain specific conventions within which only the greatest improvisors could flourish. When these improvisors were not forthcoming, some, like Horace Silver, worked out partial solutions, but these were largely formal in nature...
Sonny Rollins was the first improviser to secure a position of respect at all comparable with that of Charlie Parker, the Father of us all. He added certain harmonic refinements and rhythmic subtleties to a basically Parker conception of improvising, but his real message is greater awareness of the possibilites of the thematic development of a solo. Of course, this was all largely unconscious; but Sonny, like all the great improvisers, has an extremely disciplined unconscious. His best records are Saxophone Colossus (Prestige 1079) and A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note...
...Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves; fit-looking soldiers march past in cadenced columns; phalanxes of workers with banners roar out slogans extolling the greatness of Communism and hatred of "American imperialism." Here, evidently, is all the panoplied might...