What sets him apart is his light, graceful voice, seemingly too high and flexible for his genre.
As the spirited, virginal Susanna, Petersen offers a focussed, precise, and graceful voice; Abdrazakov, who slightly resembles Seth Rogen, has a bluff, hearty, unvarnished voice.
Dacus has a graceful, oracular voice, like Sharon Van Etten, and a winsome sense of humor that reminds me of Jenny Lewis.
This is a shame because Ms. Holland, tall and stately, has a graceful, silken voice that glides easily through her material.
And yet, what might have been a graceful prose voice is marred by the author's relentless use of "Caucasian" and "Afro-American".
Shakespeare scholar Anne Barton dies at 80, a graceful, expert voice.
It is a book with considerable pleasures, augmented by Auster's graceful, muted narrative voice -- a man telling us a sad story through a concrete wall.
Last year in these pages, D. T. Max called this "a book with considerable pleasures, augmented by Auster's graceful, muted narrative voice".
No matter what he chooses to sing, there is always his voice, graceful and sympathetic; his melodies, which gently tug heartstrings, and lyrics that ponder history, ideas and desire.
With her graceful bearing and a voice both rich and penetrating, Ms. Jurinac was a star of the first generation of European singers to emerge after World War II.
Conroy has honed a graceful, self-deprecatingly personable voice that serves him well whether he is writing about fatherhood or the mysteries of prose composition or the influence of an old college mentor.
