Recently a dear friend who had listened to me sing some early Italian songs asked me why I had "used" vibrato in baroque music. Restraining the urge to pick up a blunt object to apply to his head, and the urge to scream that the vibrato controversy has been over since 1984 with Friedrich Neuman's article on "The Vibrato Controversy" in the American Musicological Society's journal, I said to him gently, "That's just because I'm old."
Now granted that I do have a wobble nowadays, and I must say...
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