Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked the old stand-by, "How do you like Harvard men?" she answered "Oh, I've met them before," and later she intimated that they were "lousy with rhythm." Being surrounded by ardent admirers and perhaps wishing to avoid being the cause of a civil war in New England, she refused to comment on the merits of the sons...
...yogins hold their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...
...Parker wrote Hora Novissima, his masterpiece, taking the text from Bernard de Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...
Featured in the musical score are three songs, "Lying in the Sun," "Memory Waltz," and "Swng in the New Rhythm...
...have known some Harvard boys, but more Yale boys," admitted Ina Ray Hutton, billed this week at a Boston theater as "the Blonde Bombshell of Rhythm." She tactfully hastened to add, however, that the reason for the predominance of Yale could be attributed to the fact that she was in New York and New Haven more often than in Boston...