As the house fills up with journalists and the time for eulogies approaches, other doubts about Douglas's serial achievements are voiced.
The Suspended Song (1955 56), a serial setting for voices, chorus, and orchestra of letters written by victims of Nazism, passes its melody among the instruments and voices with each performer rarely playing more than a single note at a time.
The prose is terse and dry, calculating and claustrophobic, the way one might imagine a serial killer's inner voice to be.
Back in October, I'd been asked to write the first installment of "The Fifth Column," a "collaborative serial novel" for The Village Voice, and I'd chosen as a narrator a woman named Una--a former Miss Ohio with a penchant for explosive devices and Jiffy-Pak mailers.
Lynda Baron was cast as Captain Wrack, having previously participated in Doctor Who in the 1966 serial The Gunfighters, as the voice that sings the "Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon" heard throughout that story.
His production of London Road, a musical based on verbatim testimony from residents caught up in the Ipswich serial murders of 2006, brought voices rarely heard at the National to the venue in 2011, and two of his three of his most recent shows have been with all-black casts – a subject on which he has also been vocal.
Christine Finn, known to contemporary viewers as Barbara Judd from the BBC science-fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit, voiced Tin-Tin and Grandma.
Peter Bessell, a dodgy businessman and serial womaniser with "a lounge-lizard voice", who left in his wake a trail of debts and who, after years of slavish loyalty to Thorpe, eventually shopped him.
In Serial, the narration and tone of voice of Sarah Koenig, host and producer on This American Life, keep the listener drawn in.
We first established the patients' reading deficit with a computerized word reading test, using a voice key attached to serial response box to measure RTs.
