Word: vibrato
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...Eric Clapton, 22, the rangy, intense spokesman for the group, is a superbly soulful and compelling guitarist. His voicelike "woman tone" moans, shouts or sends out sudden, stabbing cries, the vibrato quivering like a spear that has found its mark. Such top U.S. rock guitarists as Mike Bloomfield and Jerry Garcia rank him the best in the world...
Died. Mischa Elman, 76, violinist, who rose from a Ukrainian ghetto to play before the Czar by the time he was 17 years old, immigrated to the U.S. in 1908, where his sensuous, pulsating "Elman tone," far richer than the restrained vibrato and small tone then in vogue, took the music world by storm (to a fan who once gushed that he played like a god, Elman replied, "A god doesn't improve; I do") and launched a marathon, 5,014-concert career that continued until his death; of a heart attack; in New York...
Forum has seven Graces. One is huge-eyed Donna Poitras, who overcomes her thankless ingenue part with a lovely vibrato and a flair for playing a dumb blonde. The six girls in the chorus of courtesans have, as the French say, beaucoup de monde au balcon. Not only are they gorgeous, but they dance well. Rima Wolff, who choreographed their big number, has given them a bumper crop of grinds and shakes...
...rhythm that is uniquely her own. Her tempos, to put it charitably, are free form; she has an uncanny knack for landing squarely between the beat, producing a new ricochet effect that, if nothing else, defies imitation. Beyond all that, her billowy soprano embraces a song with a vibrato that won't quit, as in Gonna Be Like That...
...colleagues. Two violinists helped him to the podium, where he sank gratefully into his special chair. He conducted sitting down, but sprang upright at moments of crescendo or crisis. His right arm sustained the tempos with wide, sweeping gestures; his left hand energetically swayed from the wrist with a vibrato movement, coaxing sweetness from the orchestra as he does from a cello. The result was a Bach that no one had heard ever before. At concert's end, the Vermont mountains echoed with bravos for the world's greatest cellist, who had proved that he could have become...