Word: dictional
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Bergreen's company is, on the whole excellent. His actors know how to move and are sensitive to the subtleties of their charatcer's personalities. They have problems with diction, but their exuberance overcomes their vocal inadequacies. Only Eleanor Druckman as the Wife of Bath gives a performance that is in any sense second-rate. She is more a wide-mouthed Sandy Dennis than a gap-toothed and lusty wench...
...started on the foster-home circuit when he was seven. He lived with a family of Holy Rollers and a fortune teller. At 16 he lied about his age and joined the Air Force, where a white Southern major took him in hand, tutored him in grammar and diction and sent him to typing school...
...lessons might help him to relax. She chose Charlie Lowe's Broadway show business school for kids. Charlie remembers her visit: "Fix up his diction," she said. "Sure," said Charlie. "We'll give him a little drama, teach him to sing, teach him to dance." "He'll never dance," Mama told Charlie firmly. "Just fix the diction." Charlie ignored her ("We do that") and put Elliott through the regular Lowe routine. "That meant everything," Gould recalled to TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, "Blow-your-nose lessons, dance lessons, wipe yourself lessons, masturbation lessons, bunko. Compulsions for a dissatisfied mother...
None of the singers have flawless French diction, but otherwise the Philips cast seems nearly perfect. Tenor Jon Vickers' heroic-sounding Aeneas has both muscle and gentleness; Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey sings Dido with a burnished-bronze quality that can range from love to outrage. As Cassandra, Soprano Berit Lindholm is splendidly equipped to trumpet the doom of Troy, even if her voice is a bit too high for this low-ranging role...
...music. Her sense of pitch was phenomenal. She could hit a note right in the middle when she wanted to, but she could also shade a vowel with any one of a thousand different flat slurs that seemed always at her disposal. Her message came out with a clear diction few lieder singers could match. She shaped a song as though its architecture were sonata form, not repetitious twelve-bar patterns...