Word: tremolos
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...Wednesday, the Dennis tricks saved a so-so show-the faucetlike crying, the stumbling over lines, the vocal tremolo between laughter and tears. Reviewers were almost separated from their critical faculties. John Chapman of the Daily News closed his mash notice by pleading for Mrs. Chapman's forbearance. Walter Kerr, then of the old New York Herald Tribune, led off simply: "Let me tell you about Sandy Dennis. There should be one in every home...
...Quintet, the Trio is possibly even more severe in idiom. Where the Sessions is expansive, the Schoenberg is concentrated, pithy, intense. Contrasts are much more frequent and stark, with ferocity and elegy following in close succession in a kind of mosaic sound. Schoenberg's use of effects such as tremolo, col legno and harmonics is absolutely chilling...
...transistorized digital computer the size of a cigar box, which, when hooked up to an amplifier and a microphone in a wind instrument, enables the musician to play as loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality. Vox has a similar device called an "ampliphonic stereo multi-voice" unit, to which a pedal may be attached to produce a "wah-wah" effect...
...from a period in the composer's career during which he stressed Russian themes and styles in his music. This ballet suite uses the orchestra in some unique ways: Stravinsky occasionally makes the orchestra a vehicle for visual as well as aural effects: when the whole orchestra makes a tremolo, the players seem to shake together...
Willie plays it noble. "To you gentlemen," he announces in a sepulchral tremolo, "it's just a question of money, but to me it's a personal tragedy." Willie plays it dirty. Before the insurance doctors examine his client, he needles his left leg and right arm with enough novocain to numb a mastodon. Willie plays it go, man, go. Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie...