Word: rhythmics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose presumptuous styles have forced even the London fog to lift. Backed by the wailing beat and flanked by dancers in fishnet stockings, the Charles collection mesmerized a series of teen-age audiences. And music, as sales figures testify, has something to do with fashion. Said Caroline, to the rhythmic sound of amplified guitars: "Dig one, you're bound to dig the other...
...Schumann, which opened the program, has difficult passages for rhythmic ensemble and intonetion. But the quartet maintained excellent balance and infused the work with a vital spirit that is rarely heard. Even the third movement, which has some rather un-string quartetish passages, worked well in their hands...
...Beatles also made it all right to be white. As French Critic Frank Tenot notes: "Since the downfall of the Viennese waltz, nothing in popular music, and particularly dance, has known any success unless associated with one or another of the rhythmic discoveries of the Negro." Beatle music (known as "the Mersey sound") and even Beatle accents are actually Anglicized imitations of Negro rhythm and blues once removed. Says Beatle John Lennon: "We can sing more colored than the Africans...
Only the percussion section was consistently attentive and spirited throughout the concert, especially the timpanist and the snare drummer, who managed to make the most pedestrian rhythmic punctuation sound fresh and vigorous...
...Advocate is long on poets, and the best of them is Robert Grenier. In "The Minnesota Soldiers Home in August" and in translations of three poems by the German writer George Trakl, Grenier coaxes beautiful phonetic effects out of his descriptive language. Rhythmic vowel sounds and alliteration echo through his lines; Consonants roll melodically within his words...