The Presto became a breathless contest between two headstrong characters with both performers balancing furious forward motion with uncompromising rhythmic precision.
A few seconds later he added, with the rhythmic precision of an orchestra conductor calling in the kettledrums, "It should be coming — right... now".
From Dominick Argento's sensitive "Dover Beach Revisited" and James MacMillan's heartrending "Nemo Te Condemnavit" to Michael Gilbertson's eloquent "Weep You No More" and Robert Vuichard's exuberant "Zephyr Rounds," the group sang with clarity, rhythmic precision and passion.
As performed with extraordinary rhythmic precision by Bruce Jones, Garry Reigenborn, Keith Sabado and Dusan Tynek, this male quartet is already an exercise in repeated patterns and steps, with dancers constantly breaking away in pairs or as individuals.
It's an amazing a cappella group, like six Bobby McFerrins with greater rhythmic precision, as well as a historical knowledge of music that allows the singers to add the music of South Africa, Brazil and Puerto Rico to their Cuban perspective.
Onstage, during instrumental passages, she bends her head over her guitar, like a figure in a religious painting, and plays with a ruthless rhythmic precision.
In a separate article summarizing reviews by New York critics, Stabler called the Symphony a "virtuosos band" that "now plays with more acute rhythmic precision, more clarity, more informed style... and more extreme dynamics and tempos".
It was a punk-rock group with prog-rock skills, the rhythmic precision of an old-fashioned soul band and a feverish stage presence that was equal parts punk, vaudeville and revival tent.
For her, movement works best when it's snappy, with an emphasis placed on crisp, rhythmic precision.
