Word: rhythmical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bach's rhythmic notions and his adventuresome ear for melody seem amazingly modern to today's musicians, but in his own time he was considered hopelessly demode. He was the last great voice of concerted polyphonic music, a style that had lasted since the early 17th century. The very forms Bach favored-the fugue, the church cantata, the motet-were outmoded even as he worked on them. "Old Wig," one son called him, and Bach in his later years sadly agreed. "My art," he said, "has become old-fashioned...
...This Edith Hamilton translation of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion, and such cruel inner hurt that the stoniest playgoer must seek relief in tears. Pain paints the backdrop like a sky of blood. Pain drums the floor boards in the rhythmic open-palmed agony of the bowed women who must become the slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks. Pain frantically grips a little boy between his mother's legs before he is taken from her and thrown from the parapets of defeated Troy. The boy's body...
...unknown composer- whose seemingly playful intention is to get a head in music. He has done it with a $250 hat, atop which stands a skeletal drummer and a ghostly dancer. When the hat is pulled down tight, the drummer's eyes light up and he begins a rhythmic tattoo, while the dancer follows his every beat. Prices or "playfulness" notwithstanding, Santa's North Pole helpers were never like this...
...Room" includes hilarious scenes--and the actors generally rose to them. Cushman paced these episodes well; for example, as Mr. and Mrs. Sands, Garrett Rosenblatt and Diane Kagan superbly presented a rhythmic quarrel...
...sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm. The powerful rhythmic din is the voice of the working class making itself heard, and the officers almost blanch at its menace...