Mil's Trills Winter Bash (Sunday) Not many ensembles are built around an electric ukulele, but that instrument is the specialty of Amelia Robinson, founder of the children's music series Mil's Trills.
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The winters, one soprano trills, have lately been unseasonably hot.
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Here more than ever, Polachek's elastic vocals and inventive trills thrill.
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"THIS IS SO exciting!" trills a young woman, squeezing her friend's arm.
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Whenever she hears his voice, she trills and tries to engage him in conversation.
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"There's something about him which draws you in," trills Alan Cayetano, the foreign secretary.
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The prospect of walking along the Seine as accordion music trills in the background?
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Here again was the spectrum of isolated chirrups, growls, trills, squeaks, purrs, avian alarm calls.
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The virtuosic runs, leaps and trills of Konstanze's arias held no terrors for Ms. Shagimuratova.
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Marie-France Pisier trills her way through the film as the social climbing Madame Verdurin.
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Mil is Amelia Robinson, and what she trills on is quite unusual: an electric ukulele.
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A few minutes of humming, lip trills or resonance exercises can go a long way.
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Dancers swirled, women gave high-pitched Lakota trills, people roared "Mni Wiconi," water is life.
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It's catchy, and similar in function to the trills Tartini incorporated throughout the Devil's Trill sonata.
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Every morning the birds wake you up at 4 with a chorus of hoots and trills.
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Her Azucena is a creation of soaring high notes, fluttering trills, seductive legato, chilling low tones.
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Finger-trembling trills on the violin's thin, high-pitched E-string emulate shivering and teeth-chattering.
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The trills would go even further because they encompass everything that goes on in an economy.
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Printed mycelium, a fungus, trills up hemp drapery; E. coli appears to wriggle across bathroom tiles.
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The flourishes and trills of the "Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta," passionately accompanied by Mr. Sunwoo, were energetically dispatched.
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Ultimately, he trills between the two notes while winds and brass hold the bare fifth D-A.
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Some selections are dotted with more perfect trills than other singers will voice during their entire careers.
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There is just a hint of hesitancy at the start, with percussively repeated notes and sputtered trills.
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He revealed the slyness at work in the Adagio, with its almost mock-elegant trills and swirling passagework.
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"Merely to think upon her is to sing," trills a poem first published in 1960 and reprinted here.
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A few bars of barely felt hummingbird trills morphed into a section of full-throttle, aggressive tremolo bowing.
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It's interspersed with all manner of exciting trills and tinkles and blips, before emotionally barrel-rolling into the chorus.
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What with the chirps and trills of cardinals and blue jays, the couple can forget they're in the city.
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"Part-time jobs ain't fine," trills Julie (Pauline Étienne), the determined young striver at the movie's squishy-soft center.
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Layers of Subcultures vocal tics and trills – percussive breaths, melodic coos – form the bed upon which Tinyman's signature flow rides.
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Andrew Robson and Felice Doynov deftly rendered the colorful dialogue and trills, runs and virtuosic flourishes of the three movements.
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And yeah, it might sound funny, because you don't know what they're saying, and it sounds like [trills R] that.
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As Norma's rage intensifies, her vocal line bursts into a flurry of trills, turns and scales spanning nearly two octaves.
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Her trills alone — varied in speed and color, from fluttery delicacy to slightly heavier, more sensuous — were a master class.
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But where Once strikes a melancholy note, Sing Street trills with electric hope, the kind embodied by its naive teenage heroes.
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Feel the warm summer breeze and let the soft trills of Yachty's flute serenade you as you bask in the sunlight.
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An audience of tango connoisseurs shrieked, gasped and cooed at the fast-traveling trills and out-of the-blue pouncing skips.
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The goal of bel canto is to perfect the elaborate vocal gestures all over the role: trills, scales, arpeggios and leaps.
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Their song "Dethroned Emperor" includes one of the grimiest and drawn out trills in the bridge (listen around the 2 minute mark) .
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"Cold Coffee & Cocaine" is delivered in a faux-gruff drawl, littered with silly one-liners, off-the-cuff jokes, and jumpy trills.
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Mr. Andres took a book of tunes by Couperin and stretched out mordents, trills and turns until they became their own melodies.
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A flute descended on a plastic tray; she played just enough showy trills and runs, then growled harder to finish the song.
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It starts out with nonsensical shrieks and trills and chicken sounds on a loop, then slides into an irresistible, insistent pop beat.
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Highlights will also include numbers from her band's latest album, "Now That We're Friends …," and a screening of the first Mil's Trills videos.
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"I'm a parrot!" trills M.I.A. over what sounds like a kazoo played by a 10 year old who's eaten too much cotton candy.
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The relentless trills and tremolos of Scriabin's Sonata No. 10 — which is sometimes played lusciously but was here diffuse and gauzy — glittered angrily.
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This album won't settle into the background, as Wakeman embellishes and obscures familiar melodies with trills, squiggles, filigrees, and improvised flights of fancy.
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In Beethoven's Opus 111, Sokolov's interpretive meanderings matched the saturnine magnificence of the score: endless even-toned trills and ethereal figuration cast a spell.
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Emperor's 'The Acclamation of Bonds' from their 1997 release Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk contains one of the most epic trills in black metal.
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There's an unexpected uplifting quality to the harmonies, their undulating post-rock trills undercut by the combined harshness of the tortured vocals and propulsive percussion.
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But with Homeless, he leaves behind the dancefloor almost entirely, merging playful percussive rolls and shuddering sub bass with disembodied vocals and giddy acoustic trills.
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One of her most infectious jams is last year's "Like You" (above), which sways and trills with all the grace of a lost 00s Mariah classic.
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Tracks like "Teenage Fantasy", with its piano trills and ba-dum-dum bass, float along languidly even when she's belting out their soul-R&B choruses.
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The trills with which Tchaikovsky sensuously ends some phrases were matched by the rapid pelvic undulations that can be the most singular of belly dancing's marvels.
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Things started to take shape on 2014's JMSN (The Blue Album) with a stronger R&B underpinning the Michigan-born, LA-based singer-songwriter's vocal trills.
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It "requires more flexibility and agility than other vocal styles, with rapid runs and trills not uncommon," says Glenn Winters, a musical director at the Virginia Opera.
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THE ARTS A children's entry in the Listings pages on Friday about Mil's Trills Winter Bash at Shapeshifter Lab misstated the title of Amelia Robinson's new album.
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Marshall's formal command lets him get away with any extreme of sweetness or direness, exercising a painterly voice that spans octaves, from soprano trills to guttural roars.
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Their songs cut through the otherwise quiet park: declining five-note trills with grace notes, entirely unlike the pigeons or crows that coo and caw across the city.
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Then the drums suddenly drop away, leaving the strings to play a familiar tune: the perfect fifths that opened the first movement, only now shakily articulated with trills.
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My colleague Mark Kamstra of York University and I have proposed that national governments sell bonds called trills — trillionth shares in gross domestic product, on a perpetual basis.
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And frequent trills of a bell indicate that someone has opened a bottle of champagne with a saber — an activity recently enjoyed by Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary.
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Given that the speech sounds of the heptapods also involve airflow (the trills are a giveaway), their sound inventories should mirror ours in the distribution of manners of articulation.
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Mr. Ax played the runs in the first movement with sparkling energy; the trills of the Adagio unfolded with leisurely grace, and the concluding Rondo with both strength and charm.
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She emits a number of trills (long lines of rolling Rs with full voice, now inwardly delivered, at high pressure) and single notes sustained with the steadiness of electronic signals.
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Not in the podcast that accompanies the presentation, and that often seems an exercise in exaggerated pontification ("her-EE-TAHHHHHge," he trills in your ear), but in the clothes themselves.
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This is due in part to the rapid licks that dominate the sonata, but also because of the trills which serve as much of a melodic function as the theme itself.
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At various points, the trills, tremolos, dynamic swells and flickers of melody that emerged over the steady drone of the bagpipes meshed into colorful surges that did indeed evoke wind chimes.
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The outstanding feature of this Azerbaijani music is its vocal lines, all of which feature complex melismas: a single syllable is decorated with rapid flourishes, slow trills and firm downward slurs.
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This is Jessie flexing for an audience, doing the sorts of improvised trills that had led to the viral success of the 2014 Shreds version of "Bang Bang" (that she later saw).
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"Vincent," nearly eight minutes long, is different; it starts out with two minutes of absorbing, slowly accreting Minimalism, with loops of guitar trills, pinging single notes and fleeting sounds running in reverse.
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As kayakers on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn towed Mr. Sharp, on electric guitar, and a series of floating amplifiers past a crowd of onlookers, he finger-tapped some muted, mutant trills.
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Among the competing chirps and trills of the rainforest, the bleeps and bloops of the tui, a small dark bird with the white collar of a priest, interrupted with perfect comedic timing.
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Lead singer Morgan Fox's larynx is no longer coated with blood, Kenneth Draper is working with soft percussive trills rather than relentless bursts of syncopated panic, and guitarist Andy Garcia has disappeared entirely.
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Saint Vitus's Paul Chandler undoubtedly plays one of the meanest and most distinct trills in doom metal, as heard of "Burial at Sea," a track off the California outfit's self-titled 1984 debut.
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Drewchin also says that focusing the pieces on her voice, which overlaps in layered trills and ASMR-like assemblages, offered her as simpler way of expressing the feelings that welled up inside her.
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The first half of the program also included Kreisler's arrangement of Corelli's Sonata "La Follia," its Baroque character romanticized with robust piano chords and its trills played with languid elegance by Mr. Beilman.
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Ms. Lash, a harpist, joined the double bassist Samuel Suggs to perform her "Leaves, Space," whose tart, staccato declarations, low rumbling bass trills and melodic fragments didn't quite coalesce into a convincing whole.
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Some singers added delicate color accents on a handful of percussion instruments, like the excited triangle trills in "The Singing Tree," a bustling movement bright with the energy of sparrows chattering at sunset.
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It begins with trills in the treble clef that repeat in a relatively simple chord progression, which then moves to the bass register and the music starts to become more elaborate from there.
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"White Wanderer" — a name that refers to the Larsen C — occupies the courtyard of Two North Riverside Plaza and sends haunting, mysterious murmurs and trills out to the 30,000 people who pass it daily.
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The turbulent Gigue that concludes the intense English Suite No. 6 in D minor might not seem so danceable, with its relentless spans of spiraling runs and eerily sustained trills that keep bursting forth.
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For this final segment, a new palette of nature sounds, including trills of birdsong, began to work their way into the musical composition, feeling a bit like a call for an escape to nature.
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Plenty has been made of Klinghoffer's status as John Frusciante's understudy, trained up to play these songs, learning his falsetto ideosyncracies and picking up the lead guitar trills that define the band's high points.
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The synthy R&B B-side "2 Fast" features a classic K-pop tempo change halfway through, slowing down during the bridge before picking up the beat and adding undulating trills of vocal distortion.
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Christopher Smith switched the beat up, halving the kick-drum throbs and adding filling the gaps with hi-hat trills, Syd was captivatingly chilled-out, and Steve Lacy took over for a seemingly improvised solo.
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Her technique is immaculate, and she has the preternatural ability to invest turns, runs, and trills with psychological significance, so that it seems entirely in character for a Druid to sing in rapid-fire Italian.
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The song "Crimson Towers" combined Baroque-era counterpoint, frequent trills, and sorrowful melodies to form a unique hybrid sound that distinguished Dissection from their atonally-focused peers in other formative black metal bands of that time.
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Her trills and whirls and switcheroos complicate once-familiar snatches of song that now sound disarmingly agile and intricate; the melodic restlessness and rhythmic oomph produce music as soaringly kinetic as Chicago footwork, constantly in motion.
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She and her band go off-script, as she trills the "all I want is you" hook over and over, in a cascading sequence of falsetto-range vocal runs that send a shiver down your back.
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As Amalia trills her delight in a song that flies toward heaven on ascending high notes, audiences for Scott Ellis's production, which opened on Thursday night at Studio 54, are likely to know exactly how she feels.
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There are a lot of trills on my album, but I had to spend a lot of time figuring out how to make it my own on the piano, for the modern piano to serve the music.
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This show, presented by the BK Women's Songwriting Lab, will feature performances by Mil's Trills, starring Amelia Robinson and her electric ukulele; the singer-songwriter Suzi Shelton, whose topics have included tomboys and divorce; Katie Mullins, a.k.a.
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When it comes to "melty mush silly" Birdie, bullied and beaten by her husband, Ms. Linney uses her sweetness to poignant effect, while Ms. Nixon's heartbreaking trills and flutters layer Birdie's pain with a complicating self-loathing.
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With trills like the flutter of a thousand tongues and a literal three-part harmony on the lyric "hickeys on your thighs!" this song was what YouTube heads often refer to as an "ultimate panty-dropper" in 1994.
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Mr. Lopes's evocative "Head Down, Eyes Averted" became a study in the expressive potential of reverb, with subtle trills and little scratches along the length of the strings flitting in and out of the clouds of dissipating resonance.
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On Asphalt for Eden, harsh EBM and biting electronic beats mesh bizarrely well with long, winding sheets of shoegaze (see the glorious ethereal swell of "Masked Laughter (Nothing's Left)"), trills of trip-hop, and MC Dälek's purposeful, enunciated rhymes.
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Elsewhere, he has fun: the bright, swung rhythms of "Wine and Peanuts" ramble around, and "Watermelon Slices on a Blue Bordered Plate" winds around itself, the trills and slides sparking off but never deviating from the steady picked pace.
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After twenty distinguished years, the Caramoor festival's Bel Canto at Caramoor series, conceived by the scholar and conductor Will Crutchfield, will come to a close this summer, ending a glorious run of trills, roulades, and high-flying coloratura fireworks.
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He played blues riffs and zigzag lead lines and nagging trills and manic tremolo crescendos, racing around and under and up and down the whole stage set to end up on an elevator platform in a shower of confetti.
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In the outer movements Mr. Denk often conceived of trills and other ornaments as strangely marching machines — a reminder of the way he has recorded repertoire by Beethoven on the same album as pieces by the modernist Gyorgy Ligeti.
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"Because of our negligence, a gang of war criminals, guilty of unspeakable things, namely—" Here their translators failed, and the recitation of crimes came as a series of clicks, coughs, and trills that nevertheless retained the enchantment of their voices.
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Those elements start with his guitar playing: a trebly tone; careful trills and tremolo; short melodic figures cutting across the simple chord progressions; his weaving around the playing of the band's other guitarist, Nick Millevoi, building up toward dramatic peaks.
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And long before we learn that she was once known by the irresistibly Bennettian moniker of the Pudsey Nightingale, she trills "Yours," an undying declaration of love that was a hit for Vera Lynn during World War II. The lyrics Mrs.
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Ultar is that and more; they've got those rippling little melodic trills I love so much and a heavy shoegaze influence, but are no strangers to aggression, either—a firm appreciation for the post-metal loud/soft dynamic is on full display here.
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Like most cabalettas, "Ah bello a me ritorna" includes a profusion of coloratura, but Bellini makes the piece even more daunting by gradually adding more and more ornamentation as it progresses, until the final pages are a blaze of scales and trills.
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She stops but doesn't stop; she lingers and accelerates within a steady beat; she trills back and forth on point, like machine-run needlework in a tiny area of space; or she rushes around the whole stage area like a blithe torrent.
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Trills, oscillations and vibrations are everywhere in music that pivots, often suddenly, from confidence to reticence and is often yearning and delightful, like the tangy combination of bassoon, English horn and oboe (Bryan Young, Michelle Farrah and Kemp Jernigan) in "Glück" ("Bliss"), the eighth hour.
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As part of his recovery, Mr. Frost had to be diligent about his at-home exercises, warming up his voice by doing trills and repeating lines he'd say to his classes ("My name is Patrick Frost, Frost like the snowman") at various volumes and pitches.
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Slinging sundaes and Be-Bop-a-Lula burgers, the singing waiters at Ellen's Stardust Diner near Times Square made vocal warm-ups out of their food orders — "Do you want waffle fries with that?" from the diaphragm — and practiced lip trills while running for things like ketchup.
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Add Auto-Tune to such a voice, manifest not in the goofy bleeps and trills that correct off-key singing, but rather with a thin layer of electronic film coating the larynx of a trained professional with perfect pitch, and you'd make her unstoppable, a tank.
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When Tony Iommi deified himself in 1970 by unleashing upon the world that seminal riff from Black Sabbath's infamous title track, he not only laid the groundwork for the future of heavy metal music, he also single-handedly executed one of the most noteworthy trills in rock 'n' roll history.
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A larger group of composers, among them Lisa Bielawa, Noam Sivan, Eric Nathan and Anthony Cheung, put Ms. Koh through her paces with athletic works that employed many of the challenges Paganini specialized in: extreme jumps in register, double- and triple-stopped notes, trills, blurs of fast runs and arpeggios.
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As a goat-voiced mewler, Greep could have followed the tradition of dorky singers feeling intimidated by energetic music; instead, as if trying to prove himself worthy of all that guitar noise, he scrunches up his mouth, bleats, trills words, makes tentative gestures toward scatting, and generally contorts himself into elaborate knots.
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The color of my 10-year-old vomit: a stunning pastel pink after a night of drinking not one but two (!) pink fizzy wines at my grandma's New Year's Eve millennium bash as she and her boozy friends swung like swingers to the trills of my confusing pre-teen sexual obsession, Cliff Richard.
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Children can kick up their heels at a family dance party; join in classic outdoor games; enjoy musical performances by the groups Mil's Trills and Moona Luna; attend a show by Volunteers for Wildlife; enter their pets in a Dog Olympics; and decorate a model of the Brooklyn Bridge with painted flowers.
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And when I closed my eyes during my visit, some of the ringing did sound natural: the high-pitched trills and scurrying rhythms of bells resembled the singing of crickets; the steady and textural whirring of hidden gears reminded of the soft ribbiting of frogs or even the purr of a cat.
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Groups like Beastmaker, Samsara Blues Experiment, R.I.P., Pilgrim, Wretch, and Petyr exhale the hazy, slow-burning trills once heard on classic Saint Vitus and Witchfinder General albums, while other modern doom bands, like Crypt Sermon and Stone Magnum, lean more towards the 'epicus metallicus' trill perfected by that of Candlemass and, much later, Solitude Aeturnus.
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Now there's a 17-minute postscript, "Leagues Beneath," that both flaunts its duration — starting with more than five minutes of slow, tolling, guitar monoliths rising out of tempestuous drums — and earns it with an excursion through psychedelic whirlpools, slowly heaving chord changes, an onslaught of trills and a conclusion that dares to be quiet.
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Then the solos begin: Mr. Richardson in mournful long tones and trills and rapid figures; Mr. Metheny, at length, playing one bravado melodic phrase after another until he becomes rough and loud; Mr. Moran and Mr. Waits briefly carrying out their intuitive communication together, turning the piece in new directions, making it end in a different place.
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Word of the Day verb: give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency verb: sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below noun: a tremulous sound noun: a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note _________ The word quaver has appeared in 24 articles on NYTimes.
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Best known as Miss Katie to families in Brooklyn, where she's an early-childhood educator, she's celebrating her first children's album under the name Katie Ha Ha Ha. At this album-release concert, which will also include singing about silly things that don't go together, Ms. Mullins will be joined by Amelia Robinson, of Mil's Trills, singing backup.
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Colman's character, at her most villainous, trills enthusiastically about destroying the old world's sexual hang-ups (notably, when she's forcing Fleabag to stare at a homemade sculpture of her father's penis.) In turn, our anti-heroine narrates her own way through a series of soul-destroying superficial liaisons, big on comedy body parts, short on love.
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It starts like a (Random Access?) memory of the glitzy disco that Daft Punk have come to fetishize over the course of their career, but as they bring their sunny vocoder trills from behind the clouds, the record ends in an electro-chorale—a reminder that technology's embrace need not necessarily be cold, and that, of course, the robots were human after all.
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But here is what I'm sure of: as the differentials in culture and meaning, and public and private, flatten or disappear—like, Kylie just threw a birthday party for her one-year-old that looked like the warehouse launch of a beauty brand owned by a disaffected billionaire; athleisure is workwear, exercise classes promise heavy emotional release, work email trills under satin pillowcases—even the attempt at ritualizing, or interrupting and interpreting as a way to live through the wildness and unwieldiness, is just kind of all we have.
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Most every Queen song could fit here to some degree, but these are the tracks that lean especially hard into the drama, whether it's the arpeggiated piano and swirling guitar of their first hit single, "Seven Seas of Rhye," the trills and the harp on "Love of My Life," or Mercury's vicious takedown of the band's former manager Norman Sheffield on "Death on Two Legs" ("You suck my blood like a leech / You break the law and you preach / Screw my brain till it hurts / You've taken all my money / And you want more").
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This is black metal at its most grand, coldly melodic and unapologetically over-the-top without stumbling into wimpy, overly symphonic territory—the deranged organ trills on the title track is proof enough of that, to say nothing of the soaring, anthemic guitar/keyboard interplay on "Metamorphosis" or the unnerving audio samples on "Disgust & Remorse Part I." Anagnorisis has always felt like a band that demanded quite a lot of itself, and on Peripeteia, one gets the distinct impression that they're finally satisfied—not enough to stop, or to slow down, but to push even harder.
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