Word: trill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent years, summer music has moved steadily indoors for air-conditioned comfort. But this season more and more Americans are defying chiggers and heat for the trill, the toot and the oompah-pah of old-fashioned outdoor summer band concerts...
...saucy syndicated copy was still running six days a week in about 60 U.S. newspapers, Society Columnist Aileen Mehle, better known as Suzy, was as sad as a songbird with laryngitis. For two months after the demise of the World Journal Tribune, Suzy had no journalistic tree to trill from in New York, her home town and headquarters of the jet-setters whose fads and foibles she chronicles with re freshing irreverence. Last week Suzy was back home, regaling readers of the New York Daily News (circ. 2,100,000) with her tart tales. Items...
...When chorus intones a line like 'No student may keep an animal, bird, or reptile in a college building,' splitting the syllables of 'reptile' with a luxurious, slithering trill, it's hard to miss the silliness...
...belatedly picking up the piano," he says, "I have become more and more conscientious. I have an enormous margin of unfinished business." He adds with a twinkle: "That's why I can still make at my age a great deal of progress." And there he goes, bright as a trill, hat cocked over an eye, Brahms and Mozart and Chopin singing in his head?off to play another concert...
...voices blend together," says Sutherland, "is so exciting for us. It's fantastic." The audience agreed. Sutherland as Queen Semiramide was her usual dazzling self, but Horne matched her roulade for roulade, trill for trill, most enchantingly in the final act in which the two coloraturas melded voices in a breathtakingly lovely duet. Marilyn exhibited a regal voice that spans two octaves, warm and bronze-toned in the middle, vibrantly brilliant at the top. With the diction of a newscaster, she breezed through the complicated Rossini libretto as easily as a mother singing a nursery rhyme...