Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil's Holiday"--Columbia recording. Benny Carter and his Harlem Orchestra try to find rhythm; stick to Calloway. "Symphony In Riffs" on the other side, and despite fancy title is dull...
...story that oozes from Hollywood in heavy doses? Frankly, I can not explain the whims of the movie fans, for "Flying Down to Rio" presents little that is novel except for a dance by the chorus on the wings of huge planes--and the Carioca, "a hot, volcanic new rhythm that is sweeping America." But I recommend the movie merely on the performance of Fred Astaire who has finally been focused by the cameraman, (you will recall that he lost when he played with Joan Crawford in "Dancing Lady") and because the music is unusually stimulating and fresh...
...Bill" chats with a smoothness and correctness of speech seldom found among people of the sporting world. As one hears him discuss the masters of music and their newly acquired ideas of rhythm, which he uses to explain the tennis stroke, one can not help gaining the feeling that Tilden has travelled extensively and possesses wide information...
...introduction of the new Clear-Tone piano at the music room of the Piano-Craft Company. Justin Sandridge, a young Boston pianist, played a pretentious programme of Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Griffes. Mr. Sandridge's playing was full of feeling and a primitive and facile movement of rhythm. In the beautiful fourth Ballade of Chopin he exceeded himself in the passionate reiteration of the main theme in the middle section; also his final number, the Legends of St. Francis Walking on the Waves, brought forth the necessary brilliance and virtuosity that Pere Liszt always demands. The Sonata Appassionata...
...surplus examination papers, providing appropriate pigeon holes or boxes for them. True, the unbound papers would not wear so well as the present books, but this fact would automatically assure that obsolescence and retirement would go hand in hand, while the files would be steadily replenished by the inexorable rhythm of examinations. Thus students and university alike would benefit and the latter would reclaim one more pound of monetary flesh from Widener by the savings effected by relegating the bound books to oblivion...