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The pitchpipemagazine.com | OctOber 2O2O | Volume 74 — No.2 PitchTHE VOICE OF SWEET ADELINES Pipe INTERNATIONAL The PitchOctober 2020 • Volume Pipe 74 — No.2 Features International Updates 16 Countdown to 75 Years: 2010-2019 6 International Board Nominees 30 A Joyful Experience: Suzanne Olsen 10 Election Rules and Bylaws Revisions 31 Sweet Adelines Chorus Identity 22 Diversity & Inclusion Task Force Update 37 Make Music Day 44 Regional Management Team Members 39 A Legacy of Philanthropy: Toula Oberlies Events and Competition Education 26 The Voice in Quarantine 20 75th Anniversary Virtual Convention 34 History of the Crowns 32 Competition Updates and Revisions 40 Expressive Singing Then & Now In Every Issue 42 Understanding the Expression Category 3 From Our President 4 From Our CEO On The Cover 24 Harmony Roundup In 2020, Sweet Adelines International celebrates its 75th year as an 46 Accolades/In Memory organization. Our journey continues... OctOber 2020 | 1 The Pitch Pipe OctOber 2020 | Volume 74 — No.2 | www.pitchpipemagazine.com. SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL Elevating women singers worldwide through education, performance, and competition in barbershop harmony and a cappella music. _____________________________________ INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Tammy Talbot Chief Executive Officer Tamatha Goad Editor-in-Chief Kim Berrey Managing Editor Stacy Pratt Associate Editor/Staff Writer Ben Larscheid Graphic Designer Joey Bertsch Staff Photographer Kim Berrey Advertising 1.918.622.1444 • [email protected] INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS Prefer to read May 1, 2020 – April 30, 2021 Joan Boutilier, International President Patty Cobb Baker, Immediate Past President Thérèse Antonini,President-elect The Pitch Pipe Mary Rhea, Secretary JD Crowe, Treasurer Sharon Cartwright Jenny Harris online only? 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From Our President PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE f someone asked me to describe myself I would say that I am I continue to explore our rehearsal routine, finding moments a wife, mom, grandma, sister, teacher, quartet singer, and of normalcy throughout the process. I realize that in order to administrator. Along with all of those is a role which holds cope and remain optimistic navigating through these times, my a special place in my heart. I am a director. I feel very fortunate perspective cannot be limited to past, personal experiences as Ito direct the River City Sound Chorus in Region #3. Like other a director but instead needs to remain open to the possibilities chorus directors I’ve had the interesting, fun, and sometimes of finding new ways to connect, educate, and be strong. This is challenging experience of finding out what works — and what does easier at certain times than others. My journey as a chorus director not — for virtual rehearsals. At first I was really grasping at straws, continues. not knowing how long to meet, what content to include, and what Since becoming President of Sweet Adelines International, my to do with our contest songs and preparation. I also felt it was perspective about many, many things has altered. My journey important to address the emotions surrounding the abrupt change began in very unfamiliar territory and didn’t match any of my in chorus life, acknowledge everyone’s feelings, and find proper preconceived notions of what it should be. I adapted and reminded words to inspire my members to remain hopeful and connected myself not to make assumptions about people and situations based in this new, virtual way. Our journey into this unknown territory on past experiences. I learned that the way things have always been began. is not the way things necessarily should, or always have to, be. The Pretty soon I fell into a routine. Having a regular agenda for way I look at songs, at singing together, at understanding each the evening, much like when we were together in person, helped other, and being together has grown. With the help and wisdom of me to be more comfortable with my leadership and seemed to others, my perspective on where we’ve been as an organization has provide security for my singers. I found I could still teach about broadened. My view about our choices for the next 75 years has resonance and vowels, and we could also “sing together" with our widened. Full Mix recordings, each of us muted, to avoid the craziness of Our journey as an organization has not been on a straight path, being out of synch. I discovered the joy of inviting guest educators with steps sometimes going sideways or backward on the way to into our rehearsals which eased my burden and provided variety moving forward. My current perspective on our potential as an and education for my singers. It didn’t take long for the novelty organization is centered on recognizing our history, remembering to subside, so my Music Team and I decided the chorus should it, learning from it, and using it to guide us on our journey ahead. learn a couple of new songs. Each time we tried a new activity in In the side mirror of my car, the words say “Objects in mirror our weekly rehearsals, memories of my years as a young mother are closer than they appear.” My wish for Sweet Adelines is that raising children drifted back to me. I was in a constant state of wherever our journey takes us, we can see each other “closer” in investigating and adapting to the changing needs of my children. many ways in the days, months and years ahead. Into the next 75 This is how chorus rehearsals started to feel. We continued to take years, our journey continues… steps on our journey, but they often felt unsure. One night during chorus, something unexpected happened. While working on our new song, I got very involved in the In song, musical arrangement. I guided my chorus through an analysis and comparison of two similar phrases. We listened to the learning track, took turns singing along, then put the parts together for a deeper understanding of these tricky spots. At the end of the song, I exclaimed to my members, “That felt like normal chorus rehearsal!” Heads nodded, hands clapped, faces smiled silently back Joan at me, and for those 15 minutes, things felt "normal” to me. It felt as though our journey had finally taken us to a new, hopeful place. OctOber 2020 | 3 From Our CEO LOOKING TO THE FUTURE his year, we celebrate Sweet Adelines International’s 75th with the understanding that all organizations must evolve to anniversary. As we look back, we see the singing, the harmony survive. We use that knowledge to spur our creativity, growth, and friendships, but we also see and recognize the era of diversity, inclusion, musical passion, excellence, empowerment racial exclusion and the hurt and pain this part of our history has and overall acuity. We inform our future, shifting the paradigm Tcaused. As we look forward to the next 75 years, Sweet Adelines as needed, to meet our members where they are, to the best of International is fully committed to living out our Guiding our ability, while never losing sight of our musical passion and Principles so everyone will see themselves on our risers and want to desire to empower our members and communities.