The top of the circa 1916 six-story brick tower is embellished on four sides by stained-glass windows depicting the dog Nipper listening to an old Victrola, which with the slogan "His masters voice," was the symbol for RCA.
And if you think the Canberra Raiders, under as competitive and bloody-minded a coach as Ricky Stuart, aren't perfectly capable of adhering to their masters' voice and playing the game like everybody else does – and winning roughly as many games as they lose – then you're off your nut.
As for premiums, at one point I listed perks like my French "His Masters Voice" Poster from 1933 and my original advertising poster for a recording of "Pelléas et Mélisande" from the 1940s until I read, in the fine print, that the premiums have to be related to me, the project and not random items.
Speculation that Chris Berman would be ESPN's choice for Masters voice, and not the mannerly Mike Tirico, was absurd, just as CBS knows not to take Charlie Sheen to the Masters.
His books include Our Masters' Voices: the language and body language of politics, London & New York, Methuen, 1984; Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations, London, Vermilion, 2004 & New York, Oxford University Press, 2005; Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy: Seven Essential Steps to Success, London, Vermilion, 2008.
The last step is executed by a "master voicer," who manipulates the tone from each key until the piano is ready to meet the pianist who will, as James Baldwin wrote in "Sonny's Blues," "fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own".
He has begun working as a producer and curator in addition to a performer, creating shows for National Sawdust, Opera Philadelphia, the Philharmonia Baroque, Princeton University, WQXR, The State Theater in Salzburg, Master Voices and Kabuki-Za Tokyo.
Their group is later joined by the stage manager Mangus (Alex Fernandez), the bass-playing healer Kill Master (voiced by, and patterned after Lemmy Kilmister), the motorcycle-riding Fire Baron (also voiced by Halford, as well as visually inspired by him too), and the Amazonian Rima (voiced by Lita Ford and based on KISS characters).
He's one of these masters of voice and vernacular — Twain-calibre stuff.
Friday is a chance to hear these two masters of voice discussing what, and who, they hear in their own heads.
The Musical Review of that year wrote: Even Sullivan's friend George Grove wrote: "Surely the time has come when so able and experienced a master of voice, orchestra, and stage effect – master, too, of so much genuine sentiment – may apply his gifts to a serious opera on some subject of abiding human or natural interest".
