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...Oedipus" was written in 1928, and marks a transition between Strawinsky's youthful and dynamic ballets and his poised contrapuntal modern style. It is primarily a lyrical work, and instead of the complex rhythms and fragmentary motifs of the ballets, has long melodies, with relatively simple rhythmic structures. The three performances of the work this weekend by the Harvard Glee Club and Boston Symphony Orchestra, one at Sanders Theatre tonight, the other two at Symphony Hall Friday and Saturday, will be a rich treat. The fact that it was conceived in purely auditory terms, and not, like the ballets...
Sixteen famed Wellesley girls will highlight the annual Water Carnival in the Harvard pool tonight at 8:15 o'clock with an unusual display of rhythmic swimming, waltzing, water stunts, and formations...
Miss Anne Smith is the director of an even dozen Wellesley beauties, slated to perform to music for 15 minutes in rhythmic swimming, waltzing, water stunts, and formations...
...seen and heard in Drums Along the Mohawk) to do a long, lavish, Technicolored, cinema biography of U. S. Composer Stephen Foster. Foster, while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with a few flourishes...
...band is that their rhythm is completely different from that played by most bands of today. It is two beats to a phrase, instead of four. As a result, you get a style of jazz that is more staccatto, with shorter melodic phrases, and all sorts of trick rhythmic effects achieved thru breaking up the beat. In other words, this is a white man's way of playing jazz, as opposed to the colored man's more lagging, slurring attack of long phrase and driving rhythm. Take your choice as to which style you like...