It underlines very strongly a basic principle of Bach's structuring of the passion, where the communal voices of the Leipzig community would have joined in the periodic choral commentary and corporate affirmation.
Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?
If this production doesn't entirely fulfill that wish, it at least lets audiences express it in one fed-up communal voice.
The portrait is the girls' final great work and the visual equivalent of the communal voice of the B-Mor workers, who before long are taking to the streets to demand a better life for their children.
"As a colleague – I don't know him personally – I feel that as artists we have a communal voice and it's important that we stick together, that we have a sense of solidarity with each other," he said.
This communal voice, which to us seems jarring in lyrics of deep, even erotic feeling — imagine that Shakespeare's sonnets had been written as choral hymns — is one that some translators today simply ignore, in keeping with the modern interest in individual psychology.
At the same time that you describe the progression of the relationship between Marina and the old man, you give us, in a subtle undercurrent, the communal voice of the village — disapproving of Wendy, of Marina, of any form of eccentricity.
At the same time that you describe the progression of the relationship between Marina and the old man, you give us, in a subtle undercurrent, the communal voice of the village disapproving of Wendy, of Marina, of any form of eccentricity.
There is an amplification and timbre to the communal voice that generates its own music.
The communal voice has been silent since the loss in California.
