voce d’obama o d’angelo
“Obama, tall and handsome and blessed with a weighty baritone…” Newsweek
Salon, always on the lookout for a story with a hook, posits that “there is something in the very essence of Obama’s voice — its tone, its timbre, its resonance” that inspires trust.
Author Frank Browning delves into what one might call “Le Mystère des Voix Baracks” with the James Carville of vocal coaches, Lotfi Mansouri, who sternly admonishes “you cannot manufacture timbre artificially.”
Browning further links Obama’s velvety Fach with everyone from Frank Sinatra (“the story he was telling in his songs [was] the elemental, physical story of his own life”) to Freudian psychoanalyist Theodor Reik (“…the true baritone is an evocation of the ancient shofar, the ram’s horn that came from Abraham‘s sacrificial sheep but was also the instrument Moses used to call the wandering tribes together at Sinai to hear the thundering words of God”.)
Hillary Clinton‘s speaking voice, it seems, is not, perhaps, so soaring and pesante an instrument as her opponent’s. Says political consulatant Lynn Meyer, “That’s the voice who told you to eat your spinach, take your elbows off the table, asked you where’s your homework.”
Mark: I wasn’t going to enter this at all but, uh, “went to college”? Seriously, this is how you choose to belittle him? He was president of Harvard Law Review and later law faculty at the University of Chicago.
As a vampire, I see into the future. Obama is our future. Just what kind of “experience” counts toward being president? Not the senate. Not the house. What we need is CHANGE! This is why in Dark Shadows we had adventures in the past and in a parallel universe. Having lived for 150 years, I promise you all that Obama is our new Roosevelt! Our new Kennedy!
What do we value in music? I value those who broke new ground. That’s why I worship Beethoven and Wagner instead of Mozart and Bach.
Take a chance! Let your imaginations take hold. A new world! A new deal! Obama will bring that!
Dearest La Cieca, forgive this post! I write it after coming from Lyric’s Barber with a naked Nathan and a great production. Then followed by countless vodka’s at my favorite bar.
Boy, this topic really flushes out the true idiots amongst us.
“John McCain, agent of change.” Keep dreaming, Mark. Where have YOU been recently when he has cleaved to every Bush position, caved in to every Christian Conservative demand regardless of his previous (occasionally) maverick positions?
Have I blundered into the wrong blog? I thought this was supposed to be about things operatic, but as I’m here, and as an ignorant Brit, can you please tell me why your presidential election takes so bloody long, and is so very costly?
Barack Obama being president of Harvard Law Review is on the level of accomplishment of Mozart, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt?
Jeez. I cannot imagine living in the fantasy world you are operation.
Oh, and name one position that McCain has “caved” on … just one.
Yeah Mark, you’re right – John McCain HASN’T caved on any positions – like THE WAR, GAY RIGHTS, A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE, GEORGE BUSH’S TAX CUTS… How a self-proclaimed liberal democrat can be in support of a candidate who supports these things is totally beyond me.
And if you think the War isn’t a big deal, that we shouldn’t pursue a single-payer health care system, and that the rich and big corporations shouldn’t pay more taxes than they do at the moment, or at least SOME of these ideas or something like them, then you AREN’T A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT. Go vote for Ron Paul and just get it over with!!
Oh yeah, and there’s the little issue of him “caving” on his OWN legislation of campaign finance reform.
change…..it happens anyway.
a man from africa, or a woman. change both ways.
he says he can bring everyone together. KUMBAJA.
You think the republicans are going to let him look this good for long? They will shoot thru this obliviious pass that the press is giving him, he has no real plan, just talk.
Then you look at the woman who has weathered all the crap they throw, they say they can beat her in election and HAVE NOT.
I do not feel safe with a man in the most important office in the world hoping to “learn” as he goes. If he were a woman with that lack of experience he would have been laughed out of the park.
You all are wishful thinking with your futures. Not me. I vote Hillary Clinton all the way. They can’t fool me.
And if he gets the nod, hideously, I vote McCain.
Galvanizing Democrats in a state that goes RED everytime?
So what. He cannot win. She can.
Sugarmeszzo and Herva Nelli (that tells us more than anything else). You still haven’t named a single issue on which McCain “caved.” Not one. Just listing issues on which he has defined positions doesn’t demonstrate “caving.”
Perhaps you should get a “dick”tionary or better yet, a brain.
Not likely, though. You’re both still stuck in 1936 with a 1936 mentality and a 1936 understanding of the real problems facing the USA and the world today.
It’s ok to climb back under those rocks now, guys.
The Clintons are going into opera now that they’re on the ropes politically. Their joint debut will be as Herod and Herodias. Returning to the stage after a long hiatus, famed Polish soprano Monica Lewinsky sings the role of Salome in a blue dress. Herod will make use of a cigar during the Dance of the Seven Veils. Herodias, rather than the executioner, will personally behead Salome at the end.
In an alternate cast, George W Bush and Laura are the Herods, Condi Rice is Salome, Jeff Gannon is the executioner (nude, of course) and Karl Rove conducts.
bush clinton clinton bush bush clinton again? no thanks. but then this is not really a democracy so I would not be surprised. did olga boridina wear absolutely worst dress on opera awards? and what’s with the hair? she used to be so pretty