Word: rhythmic
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...pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest a dance routine. Always an adroit orchestrator (he scored George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue}, Composer Grofe had come far from the time when he used to add melodic shimmer to such Whiteman numbers as the Song of India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work...
Regaled by the rhythmic strains of Don Gahan's orchestra, the Class of 1940 will hold its first dance of the year from 8:30 to 12 o'clock in the Union under the auspices of the Union Committee this evening...
...preparing "The Christmas Sparrow," alias "Double or Nothing," which is based on Dickens's immortal Christmas play; while Irving G. Fine '37, accompanist for the Glee Club, is composing music somewhat more complicated than the Gilbert and Sullivan variety. The score is said to contain not only tricky rhythmic figures, but also more than a few dissonances in the modern manner...
With long, pendulum-like swings of the arm and huge, rhythmic rockings of her body from the heels up, Conductor Sundstrom carried chorus and orchestra through excerpts from Wagner's Tannhauser, Elgar's King Olaf, Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since...
...army of Notre Dame graduates who are teaching the hop shift method of getting a play started in the institutions of higher learning, many others are introducing it to the high school fields. Still other men, graduates of schools besides Notre Dame which used the system, are spreading this rhythmic, colorful offensive weapon throughout the country...