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...Tempo and Tenor. The New York scene, in fact, dramatically illustrates the tempo and tenor of today's music. All the old greats?and all tomorrow's stars?are filling the nights with once and future jazz. A season's billboard reads like an arpeggio of jazz excitement: Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear...
Soll's second work, "Lunch Break," also uses the principle of juxtaposition. Images jumble together at such a fast pace that the eight performers are pushed almost to the point of becoming characters--yet the tempo is so quick that they never quite have time to become anyone. On one level the work parodies dance: Soll dressed in baggy pants and a sweatshirt punches her way through arabesques and pirouettes; one group (construction workers?) breathlessly executes Graham floor exercises; another trio plods in a circle as in many a minimalist dance. Even sections not broadly satiric take on a quality...
...team was psyched up more for Dartmouth than for Williams," Field continued. "Williams just snuck three or four quick goals on us and it affected our morale and the tempo of the game...
...weak start as Stulberg set an easy pace for the almost religious lyrical passages that followed. He allowed the audience to revel in Mozart's rich, melancholy harmonies. Some well-placed accents would have given the ensuing third movement the bounce it sorely missed. Stulberg picked up the tempo for the final allegro. His careening pace in the finale left his players nearly breathless. Their fleeting runs, although technically accurate for the most part, sounded harsh and forced...
...least when you're sober, like "Public Domain": "Yeah, I ran with the snuff queens in Dallas/Like I ran from Snow White in L.A./Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay." Others, like "Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black" and Willie Nelson's "Pick Up the Tempo," rely less on punch lines than on a gentle self-mocking tone. But Walker gives an authentic ring to the former ("I'm quiet and I'm proud and I'm gathering a crowd and I like gravy/'Bout half off the wall but then I learned...