Show ali eliy singers voice many singers especially young singers fall fal into the habit of using the I 1 tremolo or c vibrato the former is as the word implies a trembling of the voice and may bo be dismissed as simply vulgar and offensive the vibrato stands on a different footing it is possible impossible to pass a sweeping condemnation upon it seeing that it is adopted by neaily the whole italian school that school to which we are accustomed to look for the proper production of the voice where it does not arise from an unsteadiness due to straining mining st the alie open tones in large theatres theartres the atres and music halls balls it would appear upon analysis to be an exaggeration of the ordinary vibration vib ratio n which I 1 is essential to to every well produced note it enables tile tho singer to obtain much greater power a desideratum in opera singing and in the large concert halls and if kept within bounds is not open to objection but some si singers rigers use it to such an exaggerated extent that it is som sometimes difficult to tell on what note the singer intends to dwell the voice is swayed backward and forward instead of resting on the note and this exaggeration produces a most unpleasant sensation on a sensitive ear there is one of our leading sopranos atthe present day who will make a nervous person perso n with a sensitive ear fidget on his chair from the irritation her singing causes and yet her singing is always spoken of with enthusiasm thusia sm by the entire press long mans magazine |