Word: vibratoed
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While Shuman sang with a rather pinched upper register and seemed to shout rather than sing--at times reminiscent of Eddie Vedder--he gave a thoughtful and well-acted performance. Corona had a lovely mid-range vibrato, along with some excellent breath control in tricky solos. However, Benaim, a splendid baritone who made another Dunster appearance as a soloist in the December "Messiah," stole the show with his gorgeous interpretation of the sinister machinations of four separate villains. He hammed it up, all the while supporting a richly textured, well-trained voice...
...much feel the audience's pain as sense its anger. Pat's army of the aggrieved assumes that he's against whatever they're against. They listen with radiant, upturned faces. "We can make America the great and good country we grew up in," he says with vibrato in his hoarse and weary voice. Buchanan has mastered the actor's trick of reciting the same lines but giving them a different emphasis each night. When he finishes, there is a collective hush before the audience rises to its feet in applause. Buchanan inclines his head to the orchestra seats...
...music of composer and sound designer Bruce Odland brings the songs of the spirit Ariel (Benjamin Evett) to life. Evett's great falsetto and mysterious vibrato make the songs sound magical and strange. Yet his conch shell allows for diversity: Ariel does everything from a rap segment-using the conch as percussion-to a call in which he speaks through the amplifying and distorting shell...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
...Sonata's Adagio brought a completely introspective tone to the performance. Levinson's lines seemed to come from a different world as they mingled with Buswell's wide vibrato. The music couldn't help but acquire a very private quality, hardly the kind that reaches out to an audience; the listeners could not readily participate in the experience, except by observing. Many became restless during and especially after the movement, but Buswell quieted them with a nod to Levinson, whose crashing entrance gave an almost attacca start to the last movement...