"Well," she says, "I do have to respect the 'not ready' voice.
The sound I'd heard, even through the rolled-up windows and the ready voice of the narrator of the book-on-tape I'd checked out of the library, because I never go anywhere without a good story to take my mind off the raging idiots all around me, was the sudden angry shriek of the bulkhead in back of La Conchita giving way.
My knowledge of the vocal instrument is uncommon and I have worked very hard to teach each student how to use it, sculpting stage ready voices and singers that are physical, mental and emotionally prepared for first division.
With his ruddy complexion, silver hair, piercing blue eyes, purple bishop's shirt, and sonorous, sermon-ready voice, Peter Lee projects an air of ecclesiastical authority.
She has a delicious, lieder-ready voice, loads of dramatic talent and all the vernacular gifts, such as unmannered diction and rhythmic flexibility.
She wrote fine news scripts, they told her, had a TV-ready voice, and, not incidentally, had "the look" — which is to say that she was pretty in a wholesome, all-American, Meg Ryan way.
Liz Callaway has a gleaming theater-ready voice with a machete-sharp edge that is made to deliver reach-for-the-stars Broadway showstoppers like "The Story Goes On," her signature song from the 1983 musical "Baby".
To inhabit his circuit is to visit something akin to a Political Oz, with "Beautiful Day" by U2 blaring over loudspeakers and a permasmiling candidate whose deep, cockpit-ready voice would reassure any cabin full of fliers during heavy turbulence.
They play their latest album, "Human Ceremony," at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Oct. 7, with its classic-rock chops, slick titles ("2013"), and New Wave aesthetics ("Easier Said"), delivered under Cumming's runway-ready voice.
The tale of Ted Williams, with which you have likely attained some degree of familiarity -- homeless former substance abuser with a radio-ready voice "discovered" panhandling for change -- is a compelling, "feel good" human interest story which much of American major media has been keen on for most of the week.
In one of the show's biggest stretches, these nuns go from hideously tone-deaf to "Sound of Music -ready (or "Voice of Italy"-ready) in a flash.
