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Ensure Your Music Is Legal • the New Orleans Chapter Rebuilds • New Champions Crowned INSIDE: Ensure your music is legal • The New Orleans Chapter rebuilds • New champions crowned July/August 2007 Midwinter Ad02_2008 8/17/07 11:01 AM Page 1 2008 International Midwinter Convention Max Q OC Times Storm Front International Quartet Champion International Silver Medalist Quartet International 3rd Bronze Medalist Quartet Historic San Antonio To • Choruses will receive audio-taped Welcome Barbershoppers evaluations from all of the judges, in As the saying goes, addition to written evaluation sheets. “everything is bigger • Choruses arrive Friday afternoon/evening, in Texas,” and the possible pizza party/master class Friday 2008 Midwinter night (TBD), compete Saturday, attend Convention will prove the Midwinter show Saturday night, and this brag to be true. The outgoing senior quartet champs, depart Sunday. Held in beautiful San Friendly Advice, will perform their swan • Choruses may choose to be simply given a Antonio deep in the song and present the trophies to the best rating (such as superior, excellent, good, heart of Texas, there will foursome competing to become the 2008 etc.), or they may choose to be rated and be something for everybody—singing, Senior Quartet Champs. ranked against other choruses. Awards shopping & sightseeing. If you would rather sing than listen, this is will be given to all participating groups. The weekend will be chock full of the place to be. There’s been plenty of time • Each chorus will critique at least one performances by some of the best talent in set aside to woodshed, sing tags and meet other competitor to give an added the Society. There will also be LOTS of Barbershoppers from around the world. educational opportunity to the participants. singing opportunities for ALL close International Youth The Sights And Sounds harmony fanatics. Barbershop Chorus Festival Of San Antonio Mark Your Calendar For This is very The eighth largest city in the United States, January 22-27, 2008 exciting, as it is a San Antonio offers an abundant variety of culmination of all shops, galleries and malls containing of YOUR efforts in promoting barbershop collectibles and clothing as unique and harmony to youth throughout the United diverse as the Texas landscape. States and Canada. Be A Part Of Something More specifics of the festival will be coming Special… in the next few weeks but for now here are The Texas All-Star Chorus the general guidelines: under the direction Jim Clancy, • Festival/Contest is open to male choruses legendary director of the Vocal The headquarters hotel is the plush Crowne of 12 or more singers. Majority and member of the Plaza River Walk with the show and contest • Average age of the chorus must be 25 years Barbershop Harmony Society’s venue at the San Antonio Municipal old or less, with no one over the age of 30. Hall of Fame. Auditorium (where the 1964 International • Society standards will be used, with some Make Your Plans Now! On the Friday Convention was held). slight alterations to account for Night Show, a special performance will be Something For Everyone “non-contestable” selection. presented by a chorus comprised of The Friday and Saturday Night shows will be • Membership in the Society or affiliate barbershoppers from all across the Lone hard to beat. These two concerts are being organizations is NOT a requirement. Star State. This “big as Texas” ensemble presented by the Barbershop Harmony Could be a school-sponsored group will perform a few songs appropriate to Society and the Association of International (High School or Collegiate Chorus), but the occasion. this is also NOT a requirement. Senior Quartet Champions and will include a The chorus will be limited to 250 singers, • Choruses will be judged on 10 minutes of mix of medalists quartets from this past so if you’re a member of a chapter in singing (with at least two songs being summer as well as a few of our top senior Texas and want to participate you’ll need to “contestable barbershop”—other and college quartets, plus a few act soon! other surprises. selection must be a cappella). Enfocus Software - Customer Support Midwinter Ad02_2008 8/17/07 11:01 AM Page 2 Chance To Hear The Top 5 2007 Medalists! State Line Grocery Flipside Road Trip International 4th Bronze Medalist Quartet International 5th Bronze Medalist Quartet Bank of America Collegiate Quartet Champion Music and part-predominant learning To make sure we have a good blend of voice It’s not too early to make your plans to take tracks will be produced and distributed to parts, we need to receive your information by part in what promises to be one of the most all singers, well in advance of the November 15, 2007. enjoyable barbershop conventions in performance. Participants must be registered Whether you’re on the risers, or in the recent memory. for the convention. audience, this performance is bound to create The chorus will rehearse for a few hours on some “gold medal moments” for all involved. Register NOW!!! Friday morning. Attendance at this rehearsal is Three Special Tours 110 7th Avenue N mandatory for singers wishing to perform on (more info can be found on the Society website) Nashville, TN 37203 Friday night. • Viva San Antonio—$37.00 per Ph: 800-876-SING (7464) If you meet the qualifications shown above and person, January 25, 2008 Half Day Tour 615-823-3993 are interested in participating, please send • Texas Hill Country Adventure Fax: 615-313-7615 your full name, voice part, mailing address, (Fredericksburg, TX)—$53.00 per person, www.barbershop.org/midwinter phone number, email address and chapter January 24, 2008 Full Day Tour name to [email protected] or • Outlet Shopping in San Marcos, mail it to: Barbershop Harmony Society Texas—$32.00 per person, Attn: Texas Chorus January 23, 2008 Full Day Tour 110 7th Avenue N. Nashville, Tennessee 37203 K K K K K check K money order Check all that apply: K Society VIP K AIC K President’s Council K AISQC Enfocus Software - Customer Support TRAVELTRAVEL WITHWITH THETHE STARSSTARS hGGYWW_GtGjGGzGh WESTERN CARIBBEAN CRUISE qhuUGY^Gˀ mliUGZSGYWW_ Sing in a Chorus Under the Warm Caribbean Sun Sail from Galveston for 7 exciting days on the Carnival Conquest. Sing in the mixed Barbershop chorus directed by Ron & Jo Black. Ron is the director of the Heart of Texas Chorus in San Marcos, TX. hGGYWW_GuGj DELTA QUEEN RIVER CRUISE q|sG_GT X\SGYWW_ Sing Your Way Along the Mississippi on the Delta Queen as you Travel from Memphis to St. Louis Sail from Memphis, a short distance from Nashville, on a 8-Day/7- Night cruise from Memphis to St. Louis. Sing in the mixed Barbershop chorus directed by Ed Watson, Executive Director and CEO of the Barbershop Harmony Society. hGGwGwGjGGo HAWAIIAN ISLANDS CRUISE uv}UGYGT `SGYWW_ Harmonize Away The Winter Chill Sail from Honolulu for an exciting 7-night cruise. The Pride of Aloha sails into four Hawaiian Island ports. Sing in the mixed Barbershop chorus directed by Drayton Justus, past president of the Barbershop Harmony Society. FORFOR RESERVATIONSRESERVATIONS CALLCALL BILLBILL 800800--882882--04990499 2500 W Higgins Rd, Suite 1065 = Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 = [email protected] July/August 2007 VOLUME LXVII NUMBER 4 Features Singing a legal repertoire 18 If you didn’t buy it, you don’t own it! A nitty-gritty guide to staying on the good side of the law JUDY GALLOWAY It’s extreme barbershopping 22 There’s a reason Brigades are filling up. Why you should want to join one or start one in your area Lorin May CONGRATULATIONS! Every piece New Orleans is recovering of music your group performs was 28 Two years after losing 90 percent of their written before 1923, plus you do all membership, the chapter is coming back strong Staff of your own arranging! (If that’s not the case, maybe you’d better learn how to ensure that every song you 30 Welcome new members! perform, record or videotape is legal. Hundreds of newly-minted Barbershoppers and the Learn the practical points of U.S. and men who introduced them to the hobby Canadian copyright law on page 18.) Departments 4 14 THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE HARMONY HOW-TO Celebrating past and future legacies Use solfege to get a chorus of sight singers 5 34 LETTERS STAY TUNED Youth choruses come none too soon Small gestures lead to big things for young singers Only better groups should sing in public? “Take Me Out To The Ball Game!” 7 38 On the Cover: STRAIGHT TALK MEMBER SERVICE DIRECTORY Extreme Brigades Months of preparation lead to a A fun summer of harmony Where to find answers weekend of big harmonic payoffs Photos by Lorin May 9 40 TEMPO THE TAG Support the Society Blood Drive, May 10, 2008 “No More Hurryin’, Worryin’ (Down Presentation category changes, stays the same Where The South Begins)” from Renee Craig July/August 2007 • The HARMONIZER 3 THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Noah Funderburg, Society President • [email protected] Celebrating past and future legacies had penned an article for this issue a little be- are the richer because they have been a part of the fore our international convention in Denver, but Society. events leading up to and during the convention led me to write this article instead. I couldn’t help What will be your legacy? I but celebrate those among us who, no matter what The third event was reading the article in the May/ they have or have not done on the stage, have en- June Harmonizer about the Society’s music staff’s riched our Society and left an enduring legacy for plans to develop a youth chorus program and to hold all of us to enjoy.
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