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