Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 1994/02

From: Stephen Cranefield <S.J.Cranefield@-----.NZ>
Subj: Re: vibrato (what's history of vibrato in singing?)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 17:05:24 -0500

Tom Haley writes:

> I have had several vocal teachers that claimed the vibrato is
> a natural outcome when everything is working correctly and
> together during vocal production. So maybe that is where
> the vibrato crept in; as an attempt to imitate singing.

I remember reading a Time magazine article about Richard Stolzmann
many years ago. In it he stated that when he was studying he'd been
sharing a house with a bunch of singers who used to wander around the
house practicing making and projecting beautiful sounds. Apparently
this led him to try to imitate the human voice in his playing, which
presumably explains his (sometimes excessive IMHO) use of vibrato.

- Stephen

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