Word: tremolos
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...calf, Voznesensky stumbled onstage like a lost delivery boy. Yet as he stood before the microphone, he swelled as though a mighty wind had rushed into him. His eyes blazed, his arms flung wide, and out of his small body rolled a big dark golden tremolo that thundered in the theater like a Kyrie of medieval Kiev...
...course, one particular scene will bring down any house: The hunters and huntresses, after carousing about in a seaside forest and D major for twenty minutes ("A la chasse, a la chasse!") become upset over an ominous tremolo in the strings; the lights go out, the wave machine starts up, and to cries of "Quel bruit! Quelle flamme I'environe!", Neptune's pet sea-dragon emerges in a cloud of smoke. Hippolyte conveniently rushes in, is promptly swallowed (whole), and the scene ends with the chorus solemnly incanting, "O disgrace cruelle ... Hippolyte n'est plus." (Needless to say, the libretcist...
...average person," he says, "the sound of a cello means someone is slowly dying on the movie screen. It is a depressing, melancholy sound with a wailing tremolo. It cannot laugh, but it takes to agony perfectly. The cello is the sad hero who faces life with resignation...
...lies dead, mourned in turn by his critic-biographer, six black-veiled mistresses and his wife. Flashbacks detail the end of the great man's life in a series of slapstick sketches played against the ricky-tick accompaniment of Yes! We Have No Bananas. In the sprawling Villa Tremolo, where he keeps his women (among them such Bergman favorites as Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson), Maestro Felix is heard but seldom seen. The women are the issue, for the artist's playthings, like his public, adore him, scorn him, help him, hinder...
...nudged the Italian Renaissance out of its hidebound musical stance. As a young master of the madrigal under the patronage of the ducal Gonzaga family of Mantua, he met with success but grew weary of music's rigid rules. The seesaw violin bored him, so he invented the tremolo and pizzicato...