Ably assisted by the elegant and nimble pianist Brian Zeger, Ms. Voigt responded to the ovation by bringing her glorious voice, communicative artistry and musical intelligence to an adventurous program with songs by Schubert, Strauss and Tchaikovsky in the first half, and an all-American second half, with songs by Ives and three living composers: William Bolcom, Ben Moore and Stephen Sondheim.
In the subdued fourth movement the remarkable mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson brought her dusky, poignantly beautiful voice and communicative honesty to Mahler's setting of words by Nietzsche on death, the depth of pain and the eternity of joy.
In the solemn fourth movement, the mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung (the soloist in San Francisco as well) brought her warm, husky voice and communicative power to the Nietzsche text about the deep sadness and deeper joy that lie buried within the world.
Immediately, I was struck by the raw beauty of his voice and its instant communicative power.
The human voice is the most communicative musical instrument of all.
The French soprano Anne Sophie Duprels, fragile but wiry in physique, powerful and communicative in voice, sang the title role.
Her selection of nine songs by Hugo Wolf emphasises a sense of mischief, and the recording captures well the crystalline yet supple quality of her voice and her direct, communicative way with text.
As a soprano who is widely admired for the beauty of her voice, her perceptive and communicative interpretations and the inventiveness of her programming ideas, Ms. Upshaw has the clout and the drawing power to hold the stage for a series rather than an individual concert.
This linguistic and cultural diversity has been at the root of our research regarding the use of language, communicative resources, and voice in science classroom contexts.
Our research projects thus explore voice in ways that reveal diverse communicative resource use in multilingual contexts, as we elaborate in the next section.
Within this approach, where voice-hearing experiences are primarily viewed as communicative rather than auditory, it becomes less surprising that the voice is taken to come from a speaker, since this is a necessary dimension of all communication.
