Word: vibrato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using only one instrument. In Diaz's hands, the guitar becomes an organ with a hundred stops--but infinitely more expressive. At one point it sounds like a harpsichord; at another, like a carillon, or like a piano. In melodic passages Diaz's shifts were so smooth and his vibrato so intense that the tone was violin-like. During a Villa-Lobos dance his forceful, resonant bass had a brass quality. Such versatility would in itself distinguish his playing; the remarkable thing is that Mr. Diaz is able to shift moods instantaneously, and sustain two different timbres simultaneously...
...hamlike hand. With his other hand, he sketches out a casual beat. Then he may break into a surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato or soaring through long, liquid phrases, the trumpet slices through the group's sound like a blade...
...CATHOLIC ISSUE. Time and again Johnson told with all-out vibrato the story of the death, in a World War II bomber explosion, of Jack Kennedy's brother Joe and his copilot, Lieut. Wilford J. Wiley of Fort Worth. Cried Lyndon hoarsely: "When those boys went out to die so that you could live, nobody asked them what church they went...
...orchestra plays well; the chorus is small enough to give a clear account of the pitches. Unfortunately, the soloists' pitches are sometimes obscured if there is too much vibrato going. When four men are singing dissonances, vibrato must be drastically reduced or a clinging fog prevails. And Robert Oliver's voice, though it may have the lowest range in the Western Hemisphere, is not a very beautiful instrument. The recording is excellent, but recordings in general are still far from "faithful"--we see the piano and sarrusophone unison in the score, but only in the concert hall do we hear...