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For the Nabokov fan, the place is surreal: open on the table in front of the man beside me was a binder with plastic sleeves holding the original "Speak, Memory" manuscript, handwritten in pencil on Nabokov's famous index cards.
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This justified the abstract nature of the storytelling and the excision of the original spoken dialogue.
But with layer after layer of obfuscation gone, what remains of the original speaks with the force of revelation.
Biblical Hebrew was not so much revived as made the basis for a new language, which probably doesn't bear much resemblance to the original spoken tongue.
(In events of this kind, the film's musical score is replaced by the playing of the live orchestra, but the original spoken voices and other sound effects remain).
His recording of Carmen was one of the first to restore the original spoken dialogue, though delivered by actors, and he was credited with conducting the first performance in Spain of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
The fact that there is no third act and the original spoken dialogue has also gone missing means they have their work cut out even to establish a coherent plot.
At the Guggenheim, Morris and the conductor Jane Glover will discuss Morris's unconventional approach, in which he has eliminated the original spoken text to create a witty and sophisticated blend of song and dance, while singers from the N.Y.C.O. and dancers from Morris's company perform excerpts.
On April 3, at Alice Tully Hall, a concert revival by L'Opera Francais de New York -- with narration written and delivered by the composer's descendant Alexander He rold replacing the original spoken dialogue -- restores the subsequent action in what is said to be the opera's first New York hearing in more than a hundred years.
Here's the link to the original spoken book on YouTube.
The show fuses Watts' original spoken word, poetry and rap with elements of gospel, hip-hop, blues, reggae and salsa and serves as a "veritable call to arms, demanding any and all to terrorize with love".
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