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THE TAMPA TAMPA BAY ® Monthly E-Newsletter June 2016 HeraldA monthly publication of the Tampa, Florida, Chapter, Barbershop Harmony Society Volume 71 • Issue 6 In this issue: HoH Calendar of Events ............................2 From the President ...................................3 Remembering Dick Sipple ........................4 H9H & Counting .......................................5 Membership News ...................................6 Qualification Date ....................................6 Guest Night Encore '16 Photos & Notes ...................7-13 Angel Notes............................................14 June 20, 2016 Rehearsal Notes ................................15-18 Puzzle of the Month/Caption Contest .....19 Invite 'em! Bring 'em! Cruise & Sing 2017 .................................19 Chapter Quartets ....................................20 Welcome 'em! Barbershopper of the Month ..................21 Pun of the Month ...................................21 Another Fabulous Support Our Advertisers .........................21 Show! See pictures and notes Upcoming Birthdays ..............................22 on Pages 7-13 Board Meeting Info ................................22 Friends of the Heralds ............................23 BACK PAGE 2016 Chapter Leadership Directory HoH Contact Info • Helpful Links Rehearsals (most Mondays) at 7 p.m.: June 20, 27 July 11, 18, 25 Terrace Palms Community Church 9620 Davis Road, Tampa, FL 33637 Click for Directions Good Luck www.HeraldsofHarmony.org Main Street The Tampa HERALD Page 2 June 2016 HoH CALENDAR OF EVENTS DISTRICT AND SOCIETY EVENTS 2016 JUNE 20 Rehearsal 27 Rehearsal JULY 3 International Convention - Nashville (not competing) 4 NO REHEARSAL THIS WEEK 11 Rehearsal July 3-10, 2016 14 Board Meeting Call for more information • 800-595-4849 18 Rehearsal http://www.barbershop.org/nashville/ 23 CD Recording Session #1 25 Rehearsal October 7-9, 2016 AUGUST 2016 Fall Convention 1 Rehearsal 8 Rehearsal 11 Board Meeting 15 Rehearsal 22 Rehearsal 29 Rehearsal See you there! AND BEYOND... ORLANDO AIRPORT MARRIOTT Aug 6 Recording & Rehearsal- USF School of Music Need info? Visit... Sep 10 Recording & Rehearsal- USF School of Music http://sunshinedistrict.org/events/ Oct 8 Fall Convention - Orlando (International Prelims) Oct 30 Anona United Methodist Church - Largo Nov 13 First United Methodist Church - Dunedin Dec 4 Christmas Show - The Villages Dec 10 Christmas Shows - USF School of Music Dec 14 Christmas Show - The Palladium Theater 2017 Jan 8 Installation Banquet (Tentative) Midwinter 2017 Feb 19 First United Methodist Church - Palm Harbor January 17-22, 2017 (Tentative) San Antonio http://www.barbershop.org/sanantonio/ The Tampa HERALD Page 3 June 2016 From the President by Dave Roberts, Tenor Thanks to everyone for making our become very busy. So continue to improve your Encore '16 shows a tremendous ‘square’ and help recruit new singers. success. Our total patron count to date is over 4,100 as compared Next month, we begin recording our new Christmas to 1,238 at a similar time last CD. The Music Team has an excellent plan to build year. In other words, almost 3,000 improvement into the Christmas repertoire and the more patrons have enjoyed our Fall contest package. ‘Thank you’ to the music guys performances — new friends. And, another good for their hard work and great plan. thing is that we were able to share these friends with Dave our fellow Toast of Tampa performers. I know we were very tired after so many events, but the collective 2016 Event Plan joy that we’ve shared are ‘seeds’ for our future. Many Jul 3 — International Convention - Nashville more people know of the Heralds and will hopefully Oct 8 — Fall Convention - Orlando (Prelims) be added to our future audiences. Understandably Oct 30 — Anona United Methodist Church - Largo tired, but please be proud. Nov 14 — First United Methodist Church - Dunedin I met a couple of young men in the USF lobby after Dec 4 — Christmas Show - Villages the Saturday night show. I asked them if they sang Dec 10 — Christmas Shows (2) - USF and they said “Yes," and said they would be at our Dec 14 — Christmas Show - Palladium upcoming guest night. Tony is right that "good 2017 singing attracts good singers." A prediction, future Jan 8 — Installation Banquet (Tentative) performances at a continuing higher performing Feb 19 — First United Methodist Church level will one day open the ‘gold vein’ to new singers. Palm Harbor (Tentative) Our good friend Bob Slaney, Membership VP, will Super Are you heading to Nashville for the International Convention? If you are, please take some pictures and share them with me for next month's Tampa Herald! Photo by Shannon Czwalga Email [email protected] or text me 813-503-4156. Joseph De Rosa,Star! Tenor Thanks! and safe travels! ~Roxanne The Tampa HERALD Page 4 June 2016 Remembering Dick Sipple Dick was the kind of guy that I Our beloved friend and fellow Herald, Dick Sipple, who passed too soon. aspire to be and would offer as the epitome of a true gentleman. by Roxanne Clapp, Editor ~Dave Roberts Dick was an instant friend, where we both quickly found out we had similar backgrounds, including Ham Radio & deep- water sailing. We shared lots of 'sea stories' through the brief 7-year friendship. Will miss him terribly. ~ Joe & Kaye McCarthy Dick was an exceptional Tom and I have such fond memories of Dick. The day he wood caver asked if I could sew and I assumed he had lost a button off and great his jacket. When I said yes, he then decided we could make man! riser covers! He knew exactly what he was doing. What a Dick working with gentle man and gentleman he was. I asked him how long the Heralds at he had been a Herald and with his trademark grin he said Raymond James "l was baptized a Herald." concession. His love and influence will keep us singing. ~Judy Williams Dick loved sailing Lake Michigan and the Traverse A great man. He"ll be City area where he and Liz missed very much! - spent their summers. Bryan Hevel Dick worked at Fox 13 for many years ... loved by all! The Tampa HERALD Page 5 June 2016 H9H and Counting! chance now coming up very soon. As you shine your by Drew Kirkman, Associate Director, Gold-medalist Tenor shoes one last time before the show tomorrow, think of I've spent several days thinking. how that audience can be affected by you. Now think Actually, I spend most days Editor's Note: how a CD recording, containing YOUR voice, could be thinking, as I'm usually driving over An internal affected by you. the road with nothing but time on Chorus note I'm not perfect and I will never claim to be. When Tony my hands. that captures the great spirit mentions the wide, higher lead sound that isn't lifted I can't wait for the shows this and internal and in the nose, he's talking to me. I have to make an weekend. We are ready and excitement of adjustment every time. singing better than ever....The upcoming events But I do it...because I think of what we can all accomplish. last 10-14 weeks have been an that was written I think of the audience member who might be moved amazing, every-week-is-better- and shared by that phrase if I put a little "oy" in that vowel target. than-the-last ride with Friday with the Chorus And I think of how polished I am on my music. And I beginning the newest, yet even just prior to the want to look again at the notes on that one verse of that newer, newest version of the Encore '16 shows one Christmas song, just to make sure I'm right. And Heralds of Harmony that no one will June 10 and 11. I want to double-check where the first note is on that have seen or heard yet. other song compared to the key signature, so I can be Now, our Christmas shows are getting very well known prepared and hit it right on. We have plenty of time to and they deserve to be treated with kid gloves as we do, get the songs ready for contest, and for the recording, all but our Encore! performances are going to blow people at the same time. So when you think of your legacy, our away. Sure, the new people who haven't seen us yet, but combined legacy, to have forever and ever, we simply more likely our faithful followers...they will not believe must do everything in our individual power to make sure how we keep getting better and better right before their it's the very best we can do. Every note, every rhythm, eyes. What a pleasure it is to be associated with that every breath....everything possible to make sure we're kind of feeling, that kind of brotherhood, that kind of the most prepared for something that we've ever been. family. One more slide of the iron across the lapels just To get to the point where I laugh when you ask me if I to make sure it's perfect. Just one last look at the tag to know what the second verse is on "Mary, Did You Know?" double-check where I sit in the chord, then practice it a HA!!!!! few times. Maybe one last mirror run-through of "Eyes Of course I do. It's going on a CD. We owe it to the ears Medley," because even though it’s perfect, I can probably of Christmas CD listeners years and years from now. do something even better this time. We owe it to past, present and future Heralds. Yeah, that’s the stuff I think about all day... I want my legacy to start right now. I want it to begin The other reason I wanted to write tonight is to ask... with my personal effort, my tool belt of knowledge What do you want your legacy to be? Legacy literally already received, our combined dedication to every note means "an amount of money or property left to sung and every emotion given from the first "AH" of the someone in a will." It can also mean "a thing handed first song to the last breath of our last TOT combined down by a predecessor." There it is.