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...dreamy lines of the Wedding Song to the bouncy, spirited dancing songs, each song created a convincing atmosphere of its won. In Stravinsky's Russian Peasant Songs, the women, singing alone, gave the best performance of the evening. Every note and word was crisp and clear in these pulsating, rhythmic songs. In the third, the chorus and an excellent solo trio gleefully tossed the song back and forth. Dorothy Oeste's soprano in the fourth was flawless...
...discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...
...Rhythmic Finesse. Born continents and almost a generation apart, both prove that talent tells. Cantrell, 23, is a slangy, swinging Aussie blonde with a communicable crush on life. She's got a lean, almost Twiggy figure, long arms, and a lilting voice. More of a pop than a jazz singer, she goes against all cabaret conventions. She opens with downbeat tunes such as I'm All Smiles, and then follows with joyous ballads - Let Your self Go, Nothing Can Stop Me Now, Sunny - achieving an intense dramatic vocal projection that plays an audience much as Streisand does...
Marilyn Maye, 36, is a Wichita girl who made her reputation in Kansas City, where she has been packing The Colony for seven years. A gifted musician, she can coo a dreamy The Lamp Is Low as well as belt out Bill Bailey or Cabaret with a rhythmic finesse that connoisseurs find rare in singers nowadays. There is virtually no style, in fact, that she does not command. With her husband's intricate piano work and the backing of drums and fender bass, her performance has put Kansas City back on the map for jazz lovers...
...peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead in terms of "moments" or time lapses that are carefully structured but follow no conventional rhythmic pattern...