My sister, in a stretched voice, reminded me that grand-uncles kissing grand-nieces was normal, and that she'd spoken to a professional family counsellor about correct procedures in these cases, and the real me said, "O.K.," but Bartonella me, who was larger than me and lived outside me, said, "Not O.K".
It sounded like a whale song — Russell stretching his voice out from some great deep.
The Caramoor audience responded jubilantly from "Casta diva" onward, but some veteran operagoers thought that Meade might be stretching her voice beyond its lyric capacity.
But to make a living he turned to the jazz and rhythm-and-blues circuit, stretching his voice to imitate the sounds of honking tenor saxophonists.
She struggled, initially, with the unfamiliar demands of cartoon voice-over, and enrolled in cartoon-acting classes, where, she said, she learned how to "bring a tiny being to life," and to travel "so far away from my physical self and stretch my voice to a different place".
In the prayer-like "Asiam," a piece dedicated to Joni Mitchell, Theo Bleckmann stretches his voice to otherworldly heights alongside Akinmusire, whose tone twists both upward and inward.
I talk to Michael now, and he'll say, "Oh, you're doing so many different vocal things; I wish you would have let me have you stretch your voice when you were younger," but I was too scared, and write about things I was too scared to say at that point, because I was 20.
Hard vocal parts will require you to stretch your voice out over a longer period of time.
And at full-stretch, voices raised as one to such climactic lines as 'Such harmony is in immortal souls', the collective depth and breadth of tone was enriching.
Mr. Longstreth's somewhat off-kilter, unpredictable voice, stretched languidly over ambiguous harmonies on his guitar, seemed an ideal vocal alter ego for Bartok's modal string writing.
There is muffled drums, reverb-soaked guitar that sounds thin and lost and, when stretched, Webb's voice crackling into distortion.
