"Beatrice and Benedict" is delightful opéra-comique, alternating spoken dialogue with deceptively rich musical numbers.
In this sneakily allegorical work, which takes place on two floors of an art gallery, a nervous English character is played simultaneously by the strangely calm and hypnotic pair of actors, Mr. Crouch and Hannah Ringham, who alternate speaking lines.
Holter alternates between speaking, singing, and whispering.
Like any skillful envoy, she alternated between speaking for the candidate, giving her audience assurances about how he would treat Mrs. Clinton, and refusing to speak for him, declining to make specific promises because she was not the candidate and could make no guarantees.
The drug, along with a steady stream of caffeine, helped him to concentrate during classes and meetings, but he noticed some odd effects; at a morning tutorial, he explained to me in an e-mail, "I alternated between speaking too quickly and thoroughly on some subjects and feeling awkwardly quiet during other points of the discussion".
The drug, along with a steady stream of caffeine, helped him to concentrate during classes and meetings, but he noticed some odd effects; at a morning tutorial, he explained to me in an email, "I alternated between speaking too quickly and thoroughly on some subjects and feeling awkwardly quiet during other points of the discussion".
The two leads alternate chapters, speaking in first person and present tense.
(Alternating voices speak "bracket," "sinful" and "bracket").
In another category, the pastoral comedies derived from Italian models were liberally embellished with songs loosely strung together and alternating with spoken verses.
(Alternating voices speak "bracket," "sinful" and "bracket"). Ms. Carson includes Sappho's best-known and most complete poems (notably the classic "He Seems to Me a God"), but her larger point is that our idea of this Greek poet is shaped by what we don't know, and what we choose to imagine, about her.
