Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hold up when the viewer's gaze drifts from the stage to the well-heeled, occasionally slightly puzzled-looking middle-aged audience. A ticket to the show will cost you 30 to 50 dollars--a price tag just too rich for many students, however passionate their love for rhythm might...
...take away more than the memory of an earth-shaking 90 minutes; part of its purpose is to inspire the audience to start banging on anything that comes to hand. At the end of the show, after the players have gotten all the audience finally to snap fingers in rhythm, the final dancer to exit the stage breaks into words for the first time, summing up the show's message: "Keep it going," he says. "See how long you can keep it with you. Take it home...
...third movement opens with a quick, exciting string passage, and overall conveys a morehopeful tone than its preceding movements. There is a regular, bouncy rhythm echoing throughout the different sections of the orchestra--about as bouncy as Prokofiev could ever write. There is a meditative scene in the midst of this action that the orchestra portrayed very gracefully. But it quickly turns back to marching notes of stridency and urgency--and the symphony ends with a bang, not a whimper...
...most, the essence of "ska music" is energy: an upbeat, catchy rhythm, that provides the infective inspiration to dance. If the style of music has one fault, it is that it can be easily taken over by its energy, focusing on bouncing rhythms at the expense of meaning and lyrical expression. Easy listening ska therefore seems a contradiction in terms, sapping the music of its most important quality, its energy. However, this contradiction could provide an opportunity to challenge the accepted form of ska music, injecting it with a new meaning and lyrical relevancy...
...would also be inaccurate to call Floyd Lloyd's strength instrumentals. The album's three entirely instrumental tracks, all recorded with the group the Potato 5, are not successful. Instead of featuring interesting instrumental solos or themes, these songs provide a sort of base rhythm. Reminiscent of songs that carry the melody in the vocal with the vocal part suddenly removed, the musical themes demonstrated here could serve as the foundation for more complex and complete pieces, but as they are, the songs are tedious...