... Padilla for Christmas 1652 at Puebla Cathedral. In this performance his ensemble impersonated an array of characters coming to Christ’s mangers, including Indian farm laborers and African slaves. The composer uses rhythm to differentiate the speech and movement of each group, and at the climax he even has...

...DAVID J. CODE ABSTRACT At the time of the premiere of The Rite of Spring , Stravinsky suggestively described its first dance, “Augurs of Spring,” as a “synthesis of rhythms.” Later, he characterized the whole ballet as an “architectonic” work. Richard Taruskin, in arguing for the ballet's overall...