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epitome of incomprehensibility
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Finally I'm in choir again, for the first time in two years. A new bass was greeted with applause, not because the straight female majority was starved for male presence (they're mostly partnered off), but because they're hard to find. Reminds me how I'm all about that bass. Not just bass: I like low voices, I cannot lie, no other brother/sister/sibling can deny...
This isn't to bash high voices - I myself sing medium-high - but I appreciate the way low voices sound and operate. Both in speaking and singing.
The late Claudia of Claudia_at_Twigs had a reading voice that started low and gravelly, with room to soar in laughter or indictment. Like how a cello starts low and can go up octaves if you operate the strings right.
I don't think I've heard recordings of Leonard Cohen reading poetry, but his singing! Not a lot of range, but the gentle growl made for a distinctive style. He may have gotten wrinkly and bent in old age, as we mortals do, but damn if he didn't keep a sexy voice for decades.
And let's get a classical "beautiful" for the melodic bass voice. Opera likes its sopranos and tenors, giving them the swoopy zwoopy dloopy lines, but let's not forget the underpinning melody - and let's spotlight them more often, O classical composers.
And of course the powerhouses who are alto singers in jazz and gospel. (Does Y still have his Mahalia Jackson records? Now I'm nostalgic.)
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