reediness

The boyish reediness of the lad's voice gave the portentous words a quality incongruous with the scene.

Chefs voice sounded small, its reediness almost a man's, yet the tenor tones betrayed his closeness still to boyhood.

Barry Banks's Orestes was a bit overwrought and his timbre veered on reediness.

His articulation is astonishingly crisp, his tone pellucid, a hint of reediness only lending character.

This chord for instance, could only be laid out in the manner indicated, but the blend would hardly be impaired at all owing to the thick reediness of the low clarinets.

He felt he was swimming in sensations--the taste of the bone-dry air that drew the moisture from his lungs, the lightness of the gravity, the slight reediness of sound distorted by the thin atmosphere.

That insistent reediness in the melody of the Largo of Bach's D minor Concerto After Vivaldi (BWV 596) was a far cry from the violin of Vivaldi's original.

Yevgeny Akimov's Lenski was properly passionate - he is a poet given to overwrought declarations, after all - and the slight reediness of his tenor gave his jealous rage in the ballroom scene a perfect tint.

Certainly it is still a recommended CD: the combination of the wisdom of Mr. Hancock, the reediness of Mr. Gilmore and the muscle of Mr. Ely is potent.

The playing was blessedly free of the tense, pressured quality that afflicts too many American chamber groups, and also free of the curious regional characteristics (French reediness, Germanic vibrato) that make many Europeans sound odd to our ears.