VOCAL MUSIC
The Editor, The Listener. Sir.-During the last twenty years, vocal music seems to have deteriorated to an alarming extent, and bad habits are insiduously ruining the world’s most promising vocalists. I refer particularly to the objectionable habit of demi-semiquavering every sustained note in a tremolo. This corrugated tremolo epidemic seems confined to the younger vocalists-a phase perhaps of war’s aftermath-another instance where "the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge." It may take years to eradicate, and it is difficult to suggest an acceptable remedy, but it is probable that if all vocal music were censored by a Mus. Doc. before broadcasting, quality would not be sacrificed for quantity. Yours etc..
ANTI-TREMOLO
Palmerston North, June 5, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 53, 28 June 1940, Page 12
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125VOCAL MUSIC New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 53, 28 June 1940, Page 12
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