Word: tremulo
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...developed. Marilyn Pitzele as Leye, the bride, manages to prove herself a fine actress amid the swirl. With her brash girl friends hustled off-stage and her sing-song grandmother, (Barbara Thompson) silenced by the script, Miss Pitzele displays a sullenness of movement, and a finely modulated tremulo ideal for the role...
...more interesting, less well-known selections Diaz presented were Sainz's Campanas del Alba and Lauro's Two Venezuelan Dances. The Sainz is a tremulo peice very reminiscent of Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, but far more haunting and piercing. A technically demanding work, Diaz gave it a powerful presentation. Even more impressive was his performance of the Lauro Dances, which romp all over the fretboard...
...play is well done. Eugenie Leontovich, as the Dowager Empress, carries her role of the Russian aristocrat with dignity and verve. When wit is called for, she displays a convincingly restrained emotion. Although Dolly Haas, who plays Anastasia, is forced to carry on in a heart-straining tremulo throughout the whole play, she manages to keep it from being tiresome. With her grandmother and her two muzhik, admirers she can even be exciting, while her portrayal of a psychotic soul returning to normality seems accurate, wherever it is allowed to peep through the rest of the hash in the play...
...elaborate title (such as Lully in the Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin duet called Air Leger, one violinist is playing in French style to represent Lully, while the other plays in the Italian manner, representing Corelli...
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