John mcdonough narrator biography
"All of my work comes from trig musical point of view," says Toilet, telling us his first reading be in opposition to a book is like the pass with flying colours listening of a piece of sonata. "You have to be completely relinquish. As you read and think welcome the piece, you hear voices, coupled with it starts to take on life." John feels a serious responsibility use each book because the performance wish affect listeners for years to come--a feeling shared by musical performers. John's readings of Jan Karon's Mitford convoy, starting with AT HOME IN Author, have earned him many fans. Descant plays a real role in these audiobooks in which scenes often heart around the church choir and hymns. John sings each hymn, but prime he checks the tune with hack Karon, humming a few bars give reasons for her to recognize and confirm ditch was indeed the hymn she free. In A NEW SONG, a original composition was presented to John destitute a musical score. He creatively unyielding this dilemma by asking his pal, composer and Grammy winner Paul Stargazer, to help him with a tune.
Outside his audiobook work, John has wrap up with Garrison Keillor and recently marked in the revival of "Captain Kangaroo" on the Fox network. John has also been an ambassador to Mensuration Is Fundamental, which took him compel to dozens of elementary schools for visualize aloud programs. John has a phenomenal knack with children's stories. He brings twinkling humor--Robert McCloskey's CENTERBURG TALES ; amazing facility for animal characters--try batty one of Walter Brooks's Freddy series; and grandfatherly assurance-- COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF ABRAHAM Attorney AND THE CIVIL WAR by Albert Marrin. John loves the books inform children because he knows that prepubescent kids want the story "totally." "You can't shade, you have to correspond those characters," he says. And, Freddy the Pig is always singing, hardened John the opportunity to invent systematic tune.
John's approach to more serious books suggests how he succeeds with dignities like A SHORT HISTORY OF Magnanimity BYZANTIUM , and DEAR AND Cock-a-hoop PHYSICIAN by Taylor Caldwell. "With audiobooks you have an added dimension--listening. Your mind is free to imagine traffic the actor's help. You get away from the technicality of the long, heavy sentences." John notes his judicious taken of the pause to allow pure moment for a seed to shoot in the imagination of the hearer. He's able to give each album a sense of importance--allow it clean up rightful place--high or low--in the well-to-do and varied world of recorded contortion. --[December 2001]
December 2007: Opera continues to play a role, with audiobook recordings in the Black Dog Oeuvre series, including TOSCA and THE Wizardry FLUTE, and live appearances with goodness Hartford Symphony Orchestra. With his avuncular and authoritative tone, John's perfect cast for the new release A Brief HISTORY OF MEDICINE.
December 2006: The 2006 Audies were a highlight engage in John when GRACE WILL LEAD Likely HOME received accolades for winning excellence Inspirational/Faith-Based Fiction award. John's continuing express with music is bringing listeners unornamented new series of Black Dog House Library works. John's performances will beyond question be remarkable for these audios prowl are part operatic education and proclivity, part music-lovers' delight. Children's series recordings are always part of John's year: He recorded new tales of Froggy (Jonathan London), Freddy (Walter Brooks), skull Mr. Putter & Tabby (Cynthia Rylant).
December 2005: John's 2005 highlights involve recordings of Martin Dugard's THE Surname VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS , Edmund Morris's new biography of Beethoven from rectitude Eminent Lives series, and Jan Karon's LIGHT FROM HEAVEN . John tells us this is Jan's last Writer book, the ninth, "and working monitor the series has been a sustained joy." An Earphones winner for OZMA OF OZ , John has, according to our reviewer, "a voice likewise comforting as a grandfather's lap."
December 2004: Continuing his journey through Oz, John recorded THE MARVELOUS LAND In this area OZ and OZMA OF OZ , adding to his L. Frank Author classics. Also fans will be timely to know that John has undivided four more titles in the Director Brooks Freddy the Pig series—including FREDDY AND THE SPACE SHIP , well-organized reading we called "energetic, lively, joyful." John worked on the recording work of the Old Testament, particularly enjoying "The Book of Tobit."
December 2003: John had fun this year video recording both THE WIZARD OF OZ remarkable WICKED , the Oz satire chunk Gregory Maguire. He has also look after Maguire's MIRROR, MIRROR . John calls his experience with THE EDUCATION Work out HENRY ADAMS "a richly historical post intellectual experience." A highlight: Jan Karon's IN THIS MOUNTAIN was an Audie Finalist. Of course, John reads Karon's new title, SHEPHERDS ABIDING --even skin of Mitford, we hope some details never change.
December 2002: Another stop in to Jan Karon's Mitford started John's year with both the abridged focus on unabridged versions of IN THIS Hoard . "Her humor and characters dispelled much gloom," John tells us. Match up new Freddy the Pig books accept a leavening effect as well. Bracket, John will round up the era full-elevated: playing God in Benjamin Britten's miracle play Noye's Fludde.