His research suggests that babies are innately musical, and have an excellent sense of rhythm.

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Mr. STEVE McNICHOLAS: Perfect cast member is someone who has a great sense of rhythm...

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All this is to say that Davidsbundlertanze takes far more than a sharp sense of rhythm and swing from a performer.

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Mr. Kahane, a composer with one foot in the world of pop music, says he was struck by the orchestra's exceptional sense of rhythm.

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Mr. CRESSWELL: It's usually someone who comes in who's slightly eccentric, has a great sense of rhythm, and they're the ones that have a great character that stand out that will work in the show.

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"It's almost as if he foreshadowed James Brown in the sense in which rhythm predominated over melody and the usual conventions of pop songwriting, " Guralnick says.

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