Word: rhythmics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vincent Persichetti's Bagatelles for Band, which began the evening, is an example of this ambivalence. The four movements, while containing interesting rhythmic devices and harmonic structures, were unsatisfying as individual entities and failed to form a coherent whole. Phrases caught the ear, but no meaning or emotion was conveyed. Canzona, by Julliard director Peter Mennin, was similarly unsatisfying...
...timber drover Bigerlow was lofted into song as the Old Ironsides of all Great Lakes barges. Labor songs, in fact, not only chronicled the building of the nation but also played a part in the actual work, from the winch-hauling shanties of New England sailors to the rhythmic songs of the free-swinging lumberjacks of the great Pacific Northwest. There was even a song that helped people put up rail-and-post fences. And in the most often repeated labor song of all-wherein John Henry, the Negro Paul Bunyan, works himself to death trying to compete with...
...growing collection of Stravinsky's works conducted by the composer himself. At Stravinsky's own request, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions play the piano parts in Les Noces, and in this and the other works Stravinsky shapes performances of water clarity and rhythmic fire. Ragtime is the album's special treat...
...Tongues. Many Pentecostals attend church every night for a two-hour service that would make the average Southern Baptist feel uncomfortably High Church. Loud Bible readings and spontaneous testimonials are part of every service, punctuated by shouts of "Aleluya" and "Gracias a Dios." The hymns swell over a rhythmic clapping, generally accompanied by a guitar, drums, tambourines, a bass fiddle, piano or small combo...
...back "No Testing." Cheers. Marty Peretz walks in and out--some twenty times in five minutes. A small, restive block of freshmen in the balcony brandish furled umbrellas. An air of contained excitement and considerable expectation. The CRIMSON has infiltrated: at least 15 editors scattered throughout the hall. Faint rhythmic applause; let's get something started--and then, for no reason, complete silence. Hughes himself has not yet arrived. Nash will moderate...