Word: legato
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day questioned the artistic value of the human whistle. He had felt really frustrated at the age of 12, when his boyish soprano voice broke and his only musical outlet was whistling. He learned then to produce his tones breathing in or out, to hold a long-sustained legato, trill like a coloratura. After his graduation from Bucknell University (Class of 1928) he began his double life: Five days a week he is Edward B. Dolbey, working in his father's chemical shop. Saturdays and Sundays he is Andrew Garth, the whistler, who lists himself as such...
...Smith's "legato has no vibrato" (TIME, Dec. 12) carries the wrong implication: namely, that absence of vibrato is a mark of good singing...
Therefore, the meaning of TIME'S comment, "legato has no vibrato," if true, means that the famous politician has no musical feeling to express. The chances, however, are that he did sing with a vibrato which was so subtle as to escape the ear of the critic...
...tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato was not languishing but neither did it have the vibrato so regrettably common among inexperienced singers...
Gala Night introduces James Rennie as a Hungarian tenor in an operatic comedy which attempts a witty scherzo and achieves a tedious legato. He becomes embroiled with several jealous women, but extricates himself just in time to enjoy the startling success of the little understudy whom he has secretly married. The cast works valiantly...