Category: Audio

December 20, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Ave Maria, tune by Franz Schubert, as sung by Luciano Pavarotti in the Latin version, with a muscular Mother and Child by Michelangelo

Hail Mary (Latin version) Ave Maria, gratia plena, Maria, gratia plena, Maria, gratia plena, Ave, Ave, Dominus, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus, Et benedictus fructus ventris (tui), Ventris tui, Jesus. Ave Maria! Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Ora, ora pro nobis; Ora, ora pro…

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November 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The Recorded Voice of Virginia Woolf

November 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Nobel Lecture by Toni Morrison – Media Player at Nobelprize.org

Nobel Lecture by Toni Morrison – Media Player at Nobelprize.org.

November 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Rare 1959 Audio: Flannery O’Connor Reads ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ | Open Culture

Rare 1959 Audio: Flannery O’Connor Reads ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ | Open Culture.

September 2, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Alive Inside – Music & Memory – to Awaken the Soul

Alive Inside.

April 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? Ernst Lubitsch

Hold on, I feel something in the zeitgeist, a surge through the ether…somebody stop me…could it be? Another handy hashtag? Metadata this, my darlings: #ThingsLittleOldMeLearnedFromFamousDirectors I learned that there’s a dialogue between readers and writers, between content and audience… I learned that imagination feeds on the barest suggestion……

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April 9, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Chuck Berry had a house I used to pass on my walks in the Hollywood Hills…

I don’t know if he ever was in residence, at least not when I roamed the neighborhood. The home was a cool old Moorish thing with arches and a red tile roof. I seem to remember an empty swimming pool in the back, but what I certainly remember was the…

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February 28, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If Audrey Hepburn had a potty mouth, she might have written It’s in His Kiss

Pouf Honey! Before we begin, I said to the Mister recently that if his current Herr Direktör didn’t let him go home early, I would go down to the set with a pair of pinking shears with which I’d cut off Little Herr! What? Too much?! The Mister thought so…after he’d…

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February 22, 2014 / Vickie Lester

If you drop in this morning, stateside, in the early evening in Europe, in the wee small hours of the morning in Australia and New Zealand… you get my drift… the point is I will start reading you a saucy story all about Hollywood, but it starts in Palm Springs.…

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