Word: rhythmics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lunge, Dart, Pierce. Unlike the contemporary cubists, who had moved steadily away from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...
...repeated at last week's concert, along with five other works: Integrates, Ecuatorial, Offrandes, Deserts, Nocturnal. The first three were mostly intricate rhythmic exercises for conventional instruments (plus a leather cushion that was whomped with paddles), while Deserts mixed orchestral sounds with clangorous thunderclaps from the speakers. Nocturnal was the one new work on the program. Scored for soprano, men's chorus and assorted instruments, it was based on a prose poem by Anaï's Nin. None of Nocturnal was taped, but its sounds-chittering strings, night-wailing flutes-were far out enough to fire...
...Cool: the Gil Evans Orchestra (Impulse). The finest arranger in jazz puts some of his melodic and rhythmic tricks on display in five selections, including his own long (15-min.) La Nevada, and his arrangement of John Brooks's haunting Where Flamingos Fly. The moods vary, but the effect is always an intricate crosscurrent of sound stirring to restlessly shifting rhythms...
William Masselos contrib performance that masters the continual rhythmic and that has a keen sense f land's phrases and dynam his hands the work become vibrant, then poetic, and insight like his its britt be lost...
Thus despite its dissona "row," the Fantasy is still conservative in that Coplan retained the traditional mo rhythmic and melodic con He once said that modern "shares with older music pression of basic human ent even though at times it may more painful, more hectic, mocastic. Whatever else it it is the voice of our own in that it needs no apology...