@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 Burton perfected his projection by standing in a quarry and concentrating on creating an echo without raising his volume. His father, depicted on the photograph, was a Welsh coal miner. His specialty was to arrive at an uncovered vein and strike the seam so that the whole vein would crackle and collapse, saving hours of work for the men. Burton spoke Welsh before English, giving him the background of one of the last languages to survive from Atlantis. The others are Basque and Hungarian.
No, he developed his voicelike a virtuoso instrument by constant elecution exercises and concentrated practice in oration for the art of the theatre. He was an artist - with a magnificent gift… There are heavy smokers all over the world - none of them sound like THAT.
This was first spoken by Dylan Thomas when in the company of Richard Burton. Both were in a pub having a beer and Richard Burton was debating with another on the subject of the best poem in the English language. Dylan Thomas intervened in the debate with the words recited by Richard Burton in this short recording.
I have adored Richard Burton since I was 9 years old and I am now 53. I love to hear him speak; movies, interviews or recitation. There will NEVER be another like him!❤
A remarkable and fascinating man. The Burton diaries are well worth reading and really provide an insight in to the mind of this erudite and eclectic man.
@kateboulton8789 Yes please do. I thoroughly enjoyed them and I found Burton to be a very thoughtful and interesting man. If you are interested in such hings then I can also recommend the letters of Vincent Van Gogh.
You know, I’ve always been in love with Orson Welles’ voice. I would watch any movie or documentary that he was in or his voice was narrating just to hear it. But I often forget that singularly Richard Burton had a place way up there for the same thing…a command of the written word and a voice that was just fascinating.
Burton didn’t need reminder cards from assistants to say his lines either, no matter how long. They don’t make em like that anymore, not even close. Film and stage used to be art. Truly one of the greatest actors of all time.
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am! and live with shadows tost Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life nor joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest- that I loved the best- Are strange- nay, rather stranger than the rest. I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below- above the vaulted sky. (John Clare)
The greatest voice of the twentieth century!..Richard Burton was pretty drunk when he recited this piece, which is part of an interview he did with Barry Norman and the whole interview is posted on RU-vid.
In my recording collection is the BBC cast recording of "Under Milkwood" by Dylan Thomas. Richard Burton is the narrator. This is a extraordinary production with an all-Welsh cast. Richard Burton's voice continues to reverberate in the mind long afterwards. He was also superb with Peter O"Toole in the film "Becket". Neither of them ever received an Academy Award.
Several copies of that production of Under Milkwood are here on youtube. Peter O'Toole played Captain Cat. Elizabeth Taylor played Rosie. It is a glorious reading.
It was a masterclass in acting & shoes those that dole out Oscars know little about acting, so perhaps the fact neither Burton or O’Toole won Oscar’s is testament to their talent!
Richard Burton Was a Pure Genius!!!!! The Greatest Orator and Actor In Hollywood History. This Powerful Poem "TO BE" Simply Blew My Mind. That Was The Genius of Richard Burton.
What poem? The present tense of the verb to be is a poem? The greatest poem in the English language? Does that go for other languages as well? Sorry, I find the whole notion a joke.
In 1980 I was stationed in South Korea. My wife flew in to visit for a few weeks and we took a short trip to Hong Kong. On Sunday we went to a Catholic church for mass. When the priest started his sermon he sounded exactly like Richard Burton. I was floored and paid rapt attention.
I once had a dream, that consisted of Richard Burton, myself and Christopher Hitchens, both were debating the pros and cons of Irish whiskey, I just listened.
The new Under Milk Wood is astonishingly beautiful. All new cast apart from Richard. Hearing the beginning my heart is transfixed. Love him and not because I’m Welsh! 💕🇬🇧🏴
Il n'a pas donné toute l'ampleur de son génie, trop de films commerciaux, hélas ont contrecarré la plus belle voix du Théâtre et Cinéma mondial, je fais parti de ces cinéphiles dont le regret éternel est qu'il n'ait pas eu le rôle du consul alcoolique dans le film de John Huston : "au dessous de volcan"dont il aurait fait une interprétation hallucinante. Dans un rêve, je l'écoute dire les poèmes de Rupert Brooke, et le monde devient plus harmonieux.
to be or not to be , he was , he is , the shadow in the darkened place where the wind whispers upon dry grass. words of a forgotten lover that beckon as a siren's song upon the ears of the unguarded.
Just one of the women of Liz Taylor's time much more beautiful than Taylor is Sophia Loren. And, at 88, still more beautiful than Taylor in her hey-day. (Not to mention more beautiful than Taylor in her 'gin soaked lush' days.)
Send this to a SJW you know and have fun watching them get triggered because Burton left out all the "new" gender pronouns that they've come up with. 🤣
@Howard Pearcey Bent Crude did not repeat "bulletin" points of alt-right websites at all. He proposed a perfectly good scenario. Shakespeare and proponents of Shakespeare such as Richard Burton, know that language must be stretched to its limits in artistic, intellectual and wise endeavours. But the new gender pronouns have nothing to do with art, intellect or wisdom. They serve an insidious political and social agenda which has already failed. So, there's no keeping up with "changing times and social mores" in your world. You're stuck in a peat bog, or worse still, in a primordial soup and there's no evolution possible with your new, empty rhetoric. How can there be with such mindless orthodoxy? You're not even behind the starter blocks. You're nowhere.
I too think he looks like Bill Murray, but there the likeness ends, Bill Murray was as funny as tooth ache while Burton when sober was endlessly talented.
You used to get such great actors with such powerful gravitas and deeply distinctive voices, such as Richard Burton, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, James Mason, Patrick McGoohan, etc.
Richard Burton. He had the sonorous tones for the delivery of Shakespeare , Dylan turgid Thomas and his various acting roles. Thereafter , in my opinion, he wasted his real talent and brain and became but merely a ghastly pretentious and affected man with only aspirations to being a true aesthete and man of letters . With attention and sense , he might have genuinely achieved such aspiration. It’s a pity and a waste that he allowed himself to be consumed by “Hollywood” and the one particular wife who seemed to have destroyed any intellectual integrity which he had, in favour of fame, glamour and the aforementioned “ Hollywood” nonsense. A great loss felt by his close friend, the estimable Robert Hardy.
With this beautiful song, Richard Barton once again showed that he is an actor with the most beautiful voice. No one is equal to him. His voice is reminiscent of thick white wine that you gently pour into a crystal glass. Is there a recorded song about Ozimndias with Barton? If there is, give it to us. It would be a real pleasure to listen to Ozimandias in his performance!
This Welshman, whose first language was Welsh, had a voice that earned him millions. He could Act too, by the way. His voice was like velvet and captured your interest from the start. Cool & even and melodic. He hadn’t ‘it’ in spades whatever he was talking about. Poetic. Homeric. Just in his genes, that’s all you can say.
The greatest poem in the language is Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. It is described as a play for voices because there isn’t really a word for it. But to me it is a poem like no other and Richard Burton reading it just sends it into something created by the Gods
Conjugation of the verb to be, I am, you are, he, she or it is, we are, you are and they are. I leaned conjugation in my Spanish Class and had missed it in my English Classes.
Don't you have an opinion on Richards whole persona?. It's like saying nice steak when you are eating filet mignon. He didn't just act. He performed. He was exceleranting
