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New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Tin Roof Blues (Riverside). Chicago style-blary, jagged, and rough around the edges-by one of the two bands (along with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) that ruled the North and South Sides in the old days. Put on wax in the early '...
The soloists presented a startling contrast to the chorus. Their expressiveness was moving, but I do not think it is correct here. As Oedipus, Archie Epps displayed a dazzling agility with the intricate melodies in an interpretation of Oedipus that communicated pathos and feeling rather than pride and firmness. As...
The militant chordal writing for the chorus contrasted with the complex polyphony of the soloists without jarring the work's virtually symphonic thematic unity. Phyllis Curtin, Mary MacKenzie, John Alexander and David Laurent made this continuity posible by weaving a texture that was never ragged and by providing excellent solos...
With raw flair, swivel-hipped sex, lurid color and fundamental rhythms. King Kong has clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they...
At the 1839 première in Paris, advance publicity whetted popular interest in Romeo and Juliet, and for once a new work by Berlioz became an overnight success. ("Come, dears," wrote a society columnist. "You will hear wonderful things.") But there were grumblings even then that Romeo and Juliet...