May 29ths

 

5/29/2013

Centennial of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.  Interesting juxtaposition: This morning the Barnum circus train was on an adjacent track to the El, which I thought was symbolic of life on a different track, and The Rite, while not a “Petrushka”, was an alternate reality in the music world.   

5/29/2024

In the Tin Pan days, many songs would be based on the rhythms of the words in the chorus. Some words are inherently rhythmic and are kind of a drum, a word “drum”, a wordrum if you will. The word “editor” is typically spoken with 16th notes. There are other note values you can use but it is naturally a percussive word. If you displace the phrase by an eighth note and put it on an upbeat it's unintelligible.