Russell exhibits regularly with the Oregon State University faculty and was juried into the Portland Art Museum Biennial under the pseudonym Parlando Rubato. |
His words are parlando, but the orchestra illumines them with music clear as a calcium light. |
Regarding the text setting, Aplvor's writing for solo voice is largely angular, in line with the post-Webern idiom, and essentially parlando in style. |
Instead of broad, flowing, but intelligible themes, a mongrel breed of recitative and parlando was to take their place. |
His interpretation is desiccating, and in the third movement, the women's chorus performs the parlando sections coarsely, as if they were selling fish. |
In his sonic imagination, the notation indicates not that the syllable should be accentuated, but rather that it should be spoken, or rather sung in a parlando style. |