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Rhythm & Pitch. Ernst Krenek's atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers. A long, desert-dry work, its lyrics is a list of all the station names between Albuquerque and Los Angeles* The chorus rattled down the right-of-way like a highballing freight, then proceeded to an even more formidable test: Schonberg's late works, Dreimal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Atonal Choir | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...much a show girl in how hard she works, very much more than one in how neatly she gets her hoofs, or her lungs, or above all her teeth, into a great many aspects of show business. Few mimics, moreover, who have such sharp teeth have also such appealing tremolo, are so touchingly themselves along with riding herd on others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Revue on Broadway | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Sandburg himself-who received a standing ovation-the two stars offer a sound recital. Leif Erickson has the right vigor and directness, and if Bette Davis substitutes very high-styled authority for homespun warmth, this is probably all to the good-the real danger was not toughness but tremolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Recital on Broadway, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...handsome teakwood playhouse emblazoned with British heraldry and flying pennants. This year's opening Twelfth Night was greeted with morning-after queasiness by the critics: Illyria became a British seaside resort circa 1830, and most of the cast appeared to be on shore leave from H.M.S. Pinafore, including tremolo-prone Katharine Hepburn, an exponent of the Bryn Mawr school of Shakespearean diction. The Connecticut Stratfordians followed up with a becalmed Tempest. Expected later with some foreboding: Movie Actor Robert Ryan's Antony to Katharine Hepburn's Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Songstress Day gives it a piteous tremolo, almost makes it seem a painful thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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