Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This class, which is voluntary and for which no enrolment is necessary, is open to all students in the University and consists of calisthenics and floor work performed to the rhythm of a piano...
...seems that during the summer Paul Whiteman's RHYTHM BOYS did a job on THAT'S GRANDMA and WA-DA-DA for Columbia. Since nobody buys records then, the release wasn't discovered until day before yesterday when twenty-five of them walked out of our shop...
...Instead of string and wind instruments, the Javanese produce their music with a complex system of gongs, bells and celestas, achieving a cohesion of rhythm beyond the hopes of an occidental orchestra." Different gamalongs, said Stokowski in an awed whisper, played long, complicated programs in different courtyards without leaders and without mistakes. "I tried," said the leader of the Philadelphia Symphony, "to arrange with a Javanese prince to send his entire orchestra of several hundred to Philadelphia . . . they are splendidly barbaric...
...sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother's-woman. He also adopted a Spanish lady and married his exquisite sister to a gypsyman-and all to the pleasant rhythm of horse-racing, yarn-spinning, and the distant crash of waves...
...sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats and rats, man and dog, stared fascinated while the snake feasted upon a rat, upon a kitten...