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...Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs are derived from such disparate sources as bird song (the composer is a lifelong ornithologist and notated some of his avian themes at Assisi), plain chant and the whole-tone scale. The themes are treated with Messiaen's characteristic rhythmic complexity, but the effect nevertheless is one of almost childlike simplicity...
...expected, Secretariat and Sham staged an early head-to-head duel. Then, with his long, beautifully rhythmic strides, Secretariat began to pull away...
Unlike the eyes, the baby's ears have been functioning even before birth, and the newborn arrives with a whole set of auditory reactions. As early as the 1960s, tests indicated that babies go to sleep faster to the recorded sound of a human heartbeat or any similarly rhythmic sound. More recent studies indicate that by the time they are born, babies already prefer female voices; within a few weeks, they recognize the sound of their mother's speech...
Swados' melodies, with their rhythmic simplicity and charming lyrics, form a musical chain that ties Alice's escapades together. The audience might not leave the theater humming the tunes from any of the more than 30 musical numbers, but the songs do add an essential vitality and youthfulness to the production...
However, the tired lyrics do not take away from "Age of Consent" because it is the only song that successfully fuses the disparate elements of New Order's work so far. While maintaining a powerful and more intricate rhythmic base, it rises above the impersonality and mere functionality of "Blue Monday" to project at least the sense of emotional input--which is asking a lot nowadays...