Word: vibrato
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...playing. Stern and Rose were so perfectly matched that Rose's 1662 Amati cello seemed at times the baritone voice of Stern's Guarnerius violin. In passages in which phrases are repeated alternately be tween them, each provides a mirror of the other in phrasing, tone, even vibrato. Their precision and ease suggests an immense reserve of talent that the evening's program had not required...
...confined to Boston traffic: though it was obvious that he was good, it was hard to tell what he could do, because of what he had to play. Conforming with the Romantic arrangement of the Vivaldi, he obviously tried for as rich an effect as possible; he used heavy vibrato and full bows. Yet, curiously, he played a lot of notes on the open strings without any false vibrato an octave above or below. He made no attempt to shape whole phrases. His tone had a thin, strained sound as if he were playing on top of the strings...
SCHUMANN AND LALO CELLO CONCERTOS (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting the London Symphony Orchestra; Mercury). Janos Starker, 39, perhaps the finest of the new generation of cellists, shows how to succeed without sounding like Casals: every note is clearly articulated and virtually free of vibrato. The Schumann, written during a period of joy and serenity, is allowed to speak eloquently for itself. Starker, who can also play like a mad gypsy, shows his Hungarian heritage in the Lalo...
Miles Davis had come on with his "impressionist" jazz style?a rubato blowing in spurts and swoons, free of any vibrato, cooler than ice. The Modern Jazz Quartet was playing a kind of introverted 17th century jazz behind inscrutable faces, and Dave Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) introduced polished sound that came with the complete approval of Darius Milhaud. Suddenly jazz?one of the loveliest and loneliest of sounds, the creation of sad and sensitive men?was awash with rondos and fugues. The hipsters began dressing like graduate students...
...equivalent of London's flamboyant Daily Express, bannered, POPE'S HANDS TURN BLUE, and printed both headline and body type in a sickening shade of blue. In France, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchame issued a stinging, and dead-serious, rebuke to television. "Commentators spoke in low, vibrato tones to announce the least temperature rise . . . the most insipid details," said the magazine. "All was 'lachryma Christi' of the worst vin tage." In the U.S., on the other hand, New York Journal-American TV Critic Jack O'Brian found coverage "reverent, respectful, thorough and amazingly informative...