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Power Play's Last Hurrah • How Nashville Sees Us • Society Aims • Hotel Registration Forms March/April 2008 INSIDE: Power Play’s last hurrah • How Nashville sees us • Society Aims • Hotel registration forms March/April 2008 VOLUME LXVIII NUMBER 2 33 Power Play, 2003 Interna- tional Quartet Champion, retired in February in grand fashion, and fans came in busloads from at least 20 states, two prov- inces and Great Britain. They were far from the only barbershop harmony legends on stage during their retirement. LORIN MAY Features Hotel registration and tours Help us reach our highest Aims 14 Plenty of great hotels are still left in Nashville; get 26 The songs and performances you love are now a few yours and do some touring while you’re in town! clicks away in a partnership with Naked Voice Records ED WATSON, SOCIETY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO Singing for Life saves lives 19 At least 156 chapters have already signed up to make a Common traits of great recruiters big difference while getting great local publicity 29 Meet our newest members and learn how to be like the men who bring many others into our Society Little fish, big pond 20 Nashville insiders have a lot to say about our move to The best Midwinter ever? Music City, and we’re a great fit for their ambitions 36 The best quartets, the Seniors contest winners and LORIN MAY, EDITOR, THE HARMONIZER a taste of the Youth Chorus Festival SHANE SCOTT On the Cover: Remember Departments San Antonio Photos by Miller Photography 2 12 THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE HARMONY HOW-TO Our North Star: chapter development Be a great chapter quartet 4 43 LETTERS STAY TUNED Praise and concerns about the speech of a genera- Saturn vs. BMW: a surprise winner! tion, and is there a stage fright quick fix? Big publicity coup for the Ambassadors 5 45 STRAIGHT TALK MEMBER SERVICE DIRECTORY Extreme Harmony Brigades and extreme eBiz Where to find answers 7 48 TEMPO THE TAG Meet Max Q, Jr. cutest mascot of all time “Back In My Home Town” by Val Hicks Bari vs. possum confrontation captured for TV March/April 2008 • The HARMONIZER 1 THE PRESIDENT’S PAGE Noah Funderburg, Society President • [email protected] Our North Star: chapter development t a recent meeting, a question repeatedly asked As a membership organization, our first and fore- of participants was, “What is our North Star?” most purpose is to do all things necessary to support The North Star concept is another way of asking, our members and their chapters. We do this in a va- “What is your mission and purpose? Where are we riety of ways, including schools, contests, educational A headed and how will we get there?” From ancient materials, distributing published music and unpub- times, navigators of ships in the Northern Hemi- lished arrangements, and direct and indirect services. sphere have relied upon the North Star, a star that In reviewing the present state of the Society, the seems to stay directly above the North Pole, as a Society Board felt we had not emphasized the mem- fixed point from which calculations could be made ber and chapter support aspect of our overall mission. to safely guide their ships to their destination. I We therefore made membership and chapter support wanted to share with you in this article the Soci- our highest priority for 2008 and 2009 and expect to ety’s “North Star,” as defined by our Mission State- continue that emphasis into the future. ment. Please also see CEO Ed We would be negligent, however, to not think Watson’s column in this issue about the larger impact we have, and can have, on for a discussion of the Society’s others through the magic of performing and sharing 2008 Aims and how they are the gift of our barbershop style. The youth chorus directed at members’ satisfac- festival is a great example of one such program. In tion and fun. its inaugural year, we had six choruses compete in I mentioned in a previous arti- San Antonio. We already have one of those groups cle the importance of each chap- charter a new chapter as the Western Washington, ter having a mission state- Wash. chapter and the overall winner, The Marcs- We have made ment that helps define the men of San Marcos, TX, are a newly licensed chap- chapter and to give it a clear ter and I expect by the time you read this also will be membership idea of what you all want to a chartered chapter. Yet our emphasis should not only accomplish. Certainly, the be aimed at youth. Plans already are under discussion and chapter same is true for the Society. of how we target other likely groups to experience the support our Our Mission Statement is, joy of barbershop singing and then, hopefully consid- “The Barbershop Harmony ering joining the Society. Whether such initiatives highest priority Society brings men together always result in added members should not, however, for 2008 and in harmony and fellowship be the measure of success. The value of sharing our to enrich lives through sing- love for music, and especially music sung in the 2009 and expect ing.” There are both internal barbershop style, is in the way we help change, and to continue that and external components to enrich, lives. that statement. Okay, sailors, are you still looking for that naviga- emphasis into The internal portion of tional aid? Do you still need to know more about our “enriching lives through “North Star?” Then keep watching for articles and the future. singing” is how well we announcements about how we are “enriching lives provide services and support to our chapters and through singing.” Better yet, please share your stories members so their individual and chapter experience with me or CEO Ed Watson. Where are you mak- is truly satisfying. The external portion is how we ing a difference? And how is the Society helping you change and affect lives in our schools, communities, make that difference? and other music entities and organizations by the ac- The full version of our Vision, Mission, Purposes, tions of the Society, districts, chapters, and members. and Long-Range Vision Description is on the op- Individual members, chapters, and districts obvi- posite page. Get your own copy at www.barbershop. ously have an interest in the internal portion of “en- org/id_057333. riching lives through singing.” While I would hope that most chapters also share an interest in the ex- ternal side of enriching lives, I understand that some members and chapters have lower interest in what happens outside their chapter. There may be a num- ber of reasons why that is so, and everyone should work toward what best meets their needs. The Soci- ety on the other hand needs to see the future both for [email protected] the internal and external effects of enriching lives. 2 The HARMONIZER • March/April 2008 March/April 2008 • The HARMONIZER 3 LETTERS [email protected] Copyright critique, angels of paradise Copyright laws don’t make sense other days of yore as well as celebrating with fellow he Copyright Act of 1790 took a restrictive view of in- Barbershoppers. tellectual property and emphasized the importance of WAYNE NEWLAND free expression and the public domain. For the first 120 Falmouth, Maine years of this Republic, the copyright term was extended ‘T once, to 28 years from 14, the effect being the continued Vive le barbershop! enforcement of copyright as a limited monopoly. In the Here is a nice “rest of the story” of our Denver past four decades, powerful media conglomerates seek- breakfast with a touring couple from France that was ing to monopolize lucrative properties have extended it mentioned in the September/October 2007 Harmo- 11 times, with the term of protection now being the life of nizer. After returning home, we sent the couple some the author plus 70 years, which is effectively a lifetime barbershop tapes and a CD from our collection. They monopoly!” By Victor Navasky, as reported in The responded with two interesting pictorial books about Nation magazine. Toulouse, France, as well as a letter in which they From the latest Harmonizer we get: stated: “We hear often this wonderful music at home “It is not legal to make any kind of a ‘working copy’ and in the car. If the angels and paradise exist, we of purchased sheet music. Even think it is their music.” At any rate, we and barber- when the group has been told to shop have some new friends! make their own originals from the FRED & LORRAIN TELLER master, those copies are protected as Hastings, Neb. if they’d been printed by the publisher. Individuals cannot make a mark-up copy of their music for themselves; they must use the original piece(s) of sheet music. “Singers may make ‘edu- cational, personal’ audio ‘working copies’ (such as We didn’t have a full-size copy of Cardinal district tapes, CDs, DVDs) of rehearsals, performanc- champs The Edge in time for the last issue. This time you can identify their faces! Peter es, shows, if the recordings are for their own McCormick (T), Brad McAlexander (Bs), Logan personal use.” Horn (L), Tony Millspaugh (Ba) I have believed for many years the Copy- right Laws of the U.S. are far, far too restrictive for the general public. Give me a break, we cannot make “working copies”! At least we can make our own recordings for our own personal use. ICK NEELAND March/April 2008 D K Volume LXVIII Number 2 Arlington, Texas Complete contact info: page 50.
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