Word: rhythmical
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...Festival's international competition for new music, begins with a lengthy, cello solo, working complex variations of a four-note theme, builds to a climax with the drums thundering and a clarinet shrieking above a surging mass of sound. Tishchenko does not fall victim to the rhythmic fecklessness that plagues so many of the post-Webernists. Even his quiet passages have a discernible pulse, and the faster movements bristle with a tough rhythmic muscularity...
Violent, Silent World. For Bazelon, handicapping is more than just a lucrative hobby. "The track," he explains, "is an extension of the pulse and rhythmic beat of the city, and these are the roots of my music." Indeed, the rumble of hooves has been known to inspire him to a dash off a few themes while hanging on the rail. In his Dramatic Movement for Orchestra, for instance, the slam-bang finale is his version of the horses thundering down the stretch at Aqueduct...
...late President's mannerisms--the left hand in the jacket pocket, the cupped right hand jabbing forward in the air. Edward McCormack, running for Governor, invoked JFK's name with liturgical repetition, but his speaking style was more like that of the younger Kennedys. He still had the monotonously rhythmic Massachusetts voice, nervous, clipped phrasing. Like everyone on the podium, he seemed to be staring out at a great imaginary photo-blowup of one of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's shy smiles, carnestly trying to mimic...
...orchestra, under Daniel Hathaway, gives a mixed performance. It shines in the andante sections, where its sound is full, rich, almost velvety. But in the rhythmic, percussive parts it is heavy and uncoordinated, and the strings are sometimes scratchy and out of tune...
...music is often made up of electronic squeals, tics, toes, street noises and shaped silences-in a recent recital at Manhattan's Y.M.C.A., three musicians solemnly performed a modern work composed of exhaling in unison, slapping thighs, rhythmic stamping and throwing things. New dances almost always alarm the conventional, but more than a conventional change seems to have occurred with the frug and its successors-including the alligator, in which a couple lies down on the floor and starts writhing rhythmically...