Word: rhythmical
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Born in Miami of a West Indian father, Songstress Williams has retained some of the rhythmic flavor of the Caribbean in her gospel songs. Those wild, vibrant rhythms, plus her instrumental style of phrasing and her phenomenal range, set her apart from every other gospeler. The classic of her repertory is Packin' Up, in which her voice soars and plunges with an exuberance no other gospeler can match...
...performance was quite simple: it played too loud too often, and so muffled not only the subtleties of the music's dynamics, but also some of the instruments' varied sonorities. Although Conductor James Walker's baton pattern was a clear one, the players hardly followed it. Entrances and rhythmic patterns were consistently ragged, especially in slow passages. Yet the ensemble brought out considerable color and exuberance and the solo lines indicated real promise for the group...
...resemble similar ones in the first, thereby connecting the two contrasting movements. The protracted development of this final movement is not at all a forced one, but unfortunately the performance brought it to an inconclusive ending. All the same, the three artists brought out well the work's great rhythmic activity and skillful changes in expression...
Daniel Eigerman leads the return to competence with the opening chapter of his unpublished novel, Heartboy. Eigerman writes smooth, rhythmic sentences; he had a flair for dialogue that builds his characters and has begun a tale that promises to be intriguing. Quite pleasantly, Heartboy does not smack of self-analysis; Eigerman has a story to tell and he tells it, without any unneeded verbiage or Angst...
...retrieve Ginestera, currently Argentina's leading composer, from the limbo to which serious Latin American composers are relegated. Ginestera's Quartet No. 1 (1950) attempts, according to Henri Temianka, first violinist, to evoke ancient Aztec and Incan civilizations. It combines the performance effects of Ravel and Debussy, the rhythmic drive and insistence of Bartok, and a peculiar harmonic clarity which could be interpreted as simple-mindedness. Both the first and second movements, in spite of constant, rapid, and vigorous rhythms, remain static on D. Open fifths, played tutti, reinforce the strength of the rhythms. The quartet suggests Bartok's brutality...