Listeners used to stately, stodgy, massed-voice readings sat up and took notice.
The beauty is in the music, the voices, the readings and prayers.
Sal Paradise Sam Rileyy), Kerouac's alter ego, assiduously takes notes during his adventures, and his astutely selected voice-over readings of short passages from the novel fuse with the jagged visual rhythms.
The sharply etched phrasing and vigorous, sometimes explosive, articulation had their roots in Harnoncourt's historical approach to baroque music, and although the results could be alarming, they were clearly the product of meticulous scholarly research and intellectual inquiry, and contrary to a criticism often voiced, these readings were by no means devoid of sensuality.
Eclectic Voices Festival Readings of new works by company members.
The focus is on understanding what is directly stated (main ideas, main details, event sequences) and what is implied (cause-and-effect, context, narrative voice) in the readings.
She started to read in her impeccably clear, lilting, Bible-reading voice, enunciating each word c-r-i-s-p-l-y and pronouncing the biblical names perfectly: "Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah.
Mom paused to comment, switching from her Bible-reading voice to a more intimate, conspiratorial, tone: "You see, Dear, David wasn't where he belonged.
Part medium, part mediator, she began doing readings that gave voice to the needs of the Weber family's dogs.
Her Kewpie-doll features, pixieish voice and leaden line readings inadvertently provide a welcome comic respite.
