Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Jimmy Lunceford, don't go to the left this week ((That's not the only bit of advice we have for you if you don't like Munny Luncefowl he is at his best, and is supported by an all-colored cast of rhythm-mongers in a state show that should be violence to even the most sophisticated inhibitions, Miss Mabel Scott in particular, whose offering was announced simply as a song and dance, almost forces the Playgner to became lyrical; her technique might shame any of the personality girls since Delilah. There is also some glorious from...
Unlike the classicals, he substitutes assonance for end time. Since almost every possible time has been used already, he argues, the added freedom makes for freshness. Since the mold of sonnet, both in form and rhythm is fixed in his mind, he opens automatically when he has composed 14 lines...
...Five blocks away in Carnegie Hall orchestramen in shirtsleeves rehearsed so relentlessly that a sore-lipped trumpeter had to beg off from a high shrill B. Conducting the players fiercely was Alexander Smallens. Occasionally illustrating a passage at the piano, occasionally clapping his hands to clarify a rhythm, was Composer George Gershwin. Commissioned by the Theatre Guild, he had written the score for what may prove to be the finest attempt yet at a real U. S. opera...
Trumpet-playing, band-leading "Red" Nichols should know the wages of maestri. One of the great white jazzmen of the middle 1920's he recorded with his bands variously under the names of The Ramblers, The Little Ramblers, Red Nichols & His Five Hot Pennies, the Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Goofus Five. Great Nichols numbers: Riverboat Shuffle, Plenty Off Centre, Get With, Eccentric...
...world's greatest female tap dancer. The picture includes the best specialty acts procurable: Robert Wildhack in his discourse on snoring, with examples; Frances Langford singing the show's best song, You Are My Lucky Star; June Knight and Nick Long Jr. introducing a new dance, Broadway Rhythm; Vilma & Buddy Ebsen dancing & singing On a Sunday Afternoon. Other good songs: Sing Before Breakfast, I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin', Broadway Rhythm...