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Stop The Tremolo

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Can any one explain to me the secret of the popularity of the detestable mode of singing which is now practioed so extensively in our city? I need scarcely add that I refer to what is oommonly ealled the tremolo. It oame into f ashion about 40 years ago and is it not time that that fashion should die a natural death? Mme. La Grange was the flrst who introdnced it here. She was mnch heralded, and therefore was believed to be a fine singer - to the extent that she drew fair audiences for a short time. But people soon wearied of her peculiar style and ceased going to hear her. She was passee wlien she came to this country, and it was said that it was to cover a broken down voice that she had recourse to the now hackneyed vibrata. However, many deluded singers, considering that her style must be one of the good things which come to ns froin Europe, strove, bnt too sucoessfully, to imitate it. When I was studying vocal mnsic, great care was taken to impress upon my mind the extreme importance and beauty of a firm, pnre and steady tone, with its gradual crescendo and diminuendo. Ah, with what infinite pains I tried to produce my notes without a shadow of wavering or change of quality ! And now to think that the beautiful sostenuto is considered of bnt small account hy so many people who, I maintain, ought to know better I I have seen a roomful of people moved to tears by a pathetic song rendered by a weil sustained voice, and with distinct enunciation of the words. Yet who would ever dream of weeping over the most touching bailad in the world when sung it the miserable, shaky style now in vogne. which leaves the listener in doubt as to whether he is hearing sung C shaip 01 D, F sharp or G? Among the best of vocalista beloaging to onr city and its vicinity this tremolo is of ten adopted. For some reason sopranos and baritones use it most frequently, and I niay add ad nauseam. It is more than disagreeable on the stage and in the parlor. It is beyond endurance when it obtrudes itself in the church service. No place or occasion is safe from ita impertinent intrusiĆ³n. I have heard a soprano of good standing profane the lofty strains of "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" by her tremulous rendering, obnoxious as it

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