Word: vibrato
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Swift but erratic in pace, and streaked with a social consciousness that was quickly to fade from his later novels, The Shipwrecked is written in the vibrato style that has become Greene's trademark. Where his more mature books, like The Heart of the Matter, treat human weakness in religious terms, The Shipwrecked tends to blame it on a decaying society. But in its unpretentious, entertaining way, it proves again that Graham Greene could hardly be dull if he tried...
Facing most often toward Conductor Mitropoulos, playing with the orchestra rather than in front of it, Szigeti again proved himself a master musician. Among the warm and thrilling tones there were occasionally irritating and unviolinlike sounds-scratching, coarseness of tone, a nervous, whining vibrato. But, as he had been showing U.S. audiences for a quarter of a century, Violinist Szigeti could still produce music with an impact seldom reached by many a more spectacular technician...
Said one frothing listener, shaking his head: "That isn't a vibrato she's got, it's a shiver...
Under "Antics at the Met" [TIME, Dec. 8], your critic makes note of Soprano Erna Schleuter's "sickening, undulating vibrato." No doubt what he meant was a ... tremolo...
...vibrato is a regular movement in the voice . . . coming from an off-&-on impulse of the diaphragm in tension. ... A tremolo is a very irregular movement in the voice . . . deriving from a fluttering movement of the tongue. As this movement grows worse it includes the jaw, larynx and, in advanced cases, the entire head...