Word: rhythmically
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...fact, pervades the whole evening, from the shattering "Appel du Tam-Tam" played before the curtain rises, to the helter-skelter explosion of high spirits in the final. There must be at least two hours of drumming in this show, and yet there is not a single moment of rhythmic ennui. Clearly, the producers have gone to considerable lengths to find remarkable artists, drummers whose command of technique suggests the most accomplished Western percussionists...
...austere in mood, the work unfolds in a series of canons for two, three and four voices, choral chants, spare snatches of instrumental sound. Merely to cue the onstage forces properly was a tricky task, and Conductor Craft performed it brilliantly. Stabbing with a forefinger, lifting his shoulders in rhythmic shrugs, mouthing the Vulgate text in time with the singers, he shaped a performance of geometric clarity, suffused with a thoroughly moving air of penitential passion...
...without the constraining necessity of noticing what his fellow-ringers are doing. The bells are without doubt an ideal medium for this kind of improvisation, providing an immediacy of response and variety of expression unsurpassable on any instrument. The popularity of these sections testify to the sensitivity and unerring rhythmic awareness of the ringers...
...been on the roads of the world for a long time." Boris Aronson has complied by designing a circus maximus that is the finest set of the season. Doing away completely with a proscenium curtain, the set bulges out into the audience. A raked stage boasts a marvelously rhythmic series of ramps and stairs, culminating in a funambulist's platform that doubles as a modern counterpart of the old Greek drama's theologeion. There are ropes and pulleys, and part of the canvas tent...
...developed all sorts of crypto-Chaplinesque rationalizations about the deeper significance of Monsieur Hulot-"modern man ... at the mercy of objects . . . enmeshed by circumstances." The film, as a result of these lucubrations, is at least half an hour too long, and in the length it fails to find a rhythmic respiration that might have shaped so many disparate episodes into a breathing whole. Too bad that the great clowns always want to play Hamlet...