Word: vibrato
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...never even saw an opera until he was in one. Ramey's first exposure to music was at home and in church. "By the time I was nine or ten, I knew my voice was different from everyone else's," the erstwhile boy soprano recalls. "My voice already had vibrato, and I stifled it when I sang solos. I didn't want to be made fun of." At that time his taste ran more to Pat Boone than to Robert Merrill. Young Sam was unimpressed by operatic singing: "It was such a foreign sound...
...Nifty! Eek! Gosh! Lookit! Oh boy! Those unique, familiar chirrups and chortles of gustatory delight are wafting through the kitchen once more as cameras record another salivant television series by Julia Child. The wood-notes wild, the vibrato delivery, the blue-eyed conspiratorial beam have changed little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia...
Like its predecessor, Amity II is based on the cheapest horror film sensationalism. Uncomplicated by plot development, the film relies heavily on lush cello vibrato and unexpected bumps in the night to raise the requisite goose pimples. And even these crashing windows and eerie breezes are overdone. Like a skin flick with too much skin, the effects of Amity II's repetitive "shocks" soon wear off. Halfway through the flick you're more unnerved by being practically alone in the large, dark theater than by the events on the screen...
Wanda Wilkomirska gives a moving performance, heavy on vibrato (shaking a note to seduce one's boyfriend) and tone. She executes displaced accents, syncopation (extending a beat over the natural accent) and ricochet bowings with excellent technique...
...Caprice viennois, Mintz plays fast passages clearer than Kreisler and has a wide, loud vibrato in slow passages. Kreisler plays with more appeal, though, because his short notes and even harmonics get vibrato. Mintz plays the double stops (two notes sounded at the same time) more ambitiously than Kreisler, who plays nothing out of place...