declamatory

• “With Lawes, then, what we may call the declamatory branch of the English school culminated.”

  Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians

• “The folkloric Russian lyrics are loopy and peppered with nonlinear wordplay, often barked out in declamatory Russian.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Mark Morris And His Joy of Text

• “Boesch's methodology has often been described as expressionist, though in this instance he's less overtly declamatory than you might expect, singing the work as much off the lines as the text.”

  The Guardian: Schubert: Winterreise – review

• “As the declamatory, public-face Hoover, he gets the voice just right; as the private Hoover, however, lost in the film's monotonously sepia-toned murkiness, he's defeated by the script and the makeup department.”

  The Guardian: J Edgar is a woefully boring movie

• “He's an intensely physical soloist, throwing himself into the declamatory phrases like a man following a particularly exacting fitness regime, but equally sensitive to those moments of melting tenderness.”

  The Guardian: The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 – review

• “Beginning in 1976 with the album Blue Moves, his rock influences became less pronounced, and a more churchlike English pop style emerged in ballads like “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word” (1976), which typified the staid declamatory aura of his mature ballads.”

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• “A nod to Robert Frost's paean to youthful innocence Nothing Gold Can Stay, Stay Gold bristles with naive optimism – all shimmering guitars and declamatory idylls.”

  The Guardian: This week's new singles

• “The slight, big-eyed figure of Almond singing in declamatory chest voice, until some hushed falsetto near the end, held the stage tellingly.”

  The Guardian: Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review

• “Mojo said, "Prophet delivers with quixotic swagger and declamatory sneer.”

  The Huffington Post: Mike Ragogna: The Goat Rodeo Rides Again (January 31): A Conversation With Stuart Duncan Plus Chatting With Chuck Prophet (Video Exclusives)

• “In this version, with its wide-ranging soprano part and virtuosic piano accompaniments, which Aleksander Madzar manages superbly, it becomes less a memorial to just one great composer than to a whole culture; Banse is simply in a class of her own with music like this, fiercely declamatory when required, but tenderly and touchingly entreating, too.”

  The Guardian: Berg: Seven Early Songs, Two Songs after Theodor Storm etc; Hartmann: Lamento – review

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