When i was child many years ago, the male voices of pure aural authority and beauty were Richard Burton, Richard Kiley and Alexander Scourby. Burton and Kiley starred as the main actors in two gloriously heroic musical plays. Burton was King Arthur in Camelot, and Kiley was Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha. Alexander Scourby read the King James Bible.
The quality of a voice may be accidental to the man bearing that voice. The voice of Burton was mesmerising. It is difficult to not believe that the man had a deep soul.
When hearing the voices of Robert Frost, Franklin Roosevelt too, one hears something magnificent. I can not read his poems, or his speeches without simultaneously hearing their voices when i read their words, i repeat their cadences.
Hear me, heathens and wizards and serpents of sin ...virtue shall triumph at last!
I am I, Don Quixote ...My destiny calls and I go
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To-day is Saint George's Day.
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