The ~- • OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1982 N-t 'J C) UJ r) .;;> :r. '0 u « n.1J-l May the special light of the ~/.l :> ...... 'D« holiday season brighten your life .1J .>:1­ throughout the year. -"'z .... oJ:: -= Dear Friends, Thanks for the nice letters about "AHer Class." We were very proud of our lirst effort in that it showed the mixture of technique and excitement that we try to achieve in every performance. We see a record album as a mirror of our musical tasle, which is the reason we're anxious for you to hear our most recent recording, "The Older. ..The Beller." If you're a connoisseur of barbershop harmony, we think you'll appreciate how we've grown. You'll notice the influence of other great quartets, and of contemporary, country and gospel mU'3ic. You'll hear the story of "Biff the Purple Bear" and our rendi· tlon of the 40's hit, "Java Jive," as well as "pure" barbershop from three different decades. 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Panern shown below. ~~~~ , /,<! p ., .I .,.II \.;, SAFARI Style-----------------------------------------#1/S18.50 Style #3/S24,50 Style #2/818.50 NanlC Address City _______ State Zip _ Sizc Color 7be ~a1monizer NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1982 VOL. XLII No.6 A BI·MONTHLY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED FOR AND' ABOUT MEMBERS OF SPEBSaSA, INC., IN THE INTERESTS OF BARBERSHOP HARMONY. The HARMONIZER (ISSN 0017-7849) Is the offfcial publication of the Society for the Proservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing In America, Inc. (S.P.E,B.S.Q.S.A,). It Is pub­ ON OUR COVER lished in the months of January. March. May, July, September and November at 6315 - 3rd Avenue, Kim, a shy teenager from Virginia, Box 575, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141. Second·class postage paid at Kenosha, Wisconsin. Editorial and has reached out from her silent world Advertising offices are at the International Office, Advertising rates available upon request, Publisher assumes no responsibility for return of unsolicited manuscripts or artwork. Notice of change of to share with us the warmth and humor address should be submitted to the editorial offices of THE HARMONIZER, 6315 - THIRD AVE., of the holidays with "Holiday Light," 80x 575, KENOSHA, WISCONSIN 53141, at least thirty days before the next publication date. this year's featured Institute greeting Subscription price to non-members is $3.50 yearly or $1 an issue. Copyright, 1982, by the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. card. Although l(jm suffers from multiple handicaps which include severe hearing impairment, she is an active participant in the Institute's music program (see photo on page 32). Features 4 SARASOTA PREPARES YOUR many Foundation has some sug­ SONG IN THIS ISSUE "ESCAPE TO FLORIDA:' Sarasota gestions for your consideration. The song included with this offers "goodies" to beat the winter magazine was the "opener" for the blahs ... and with the best quartets 24 MAKING MONEY FOR THE SO· 1982 Harmony College show, "I in the land. CIETY. Did you know the Society Have a Song to Sing." In the show, has a profit-making subsidiary work· the first few measures were sung 6 IN-TER·PRE·TA-T10N. Author Jack­ ing for you? Read about Harmony several timos throughout so that son presents part 4 of his many Services Corporation and what it's the audience became familiar with thoughts about this challenging judg­ trying to do for you, the tune. Then - and get this - the ing category, melody and tag of the song were 26 SHARING OUR SOCIETY. The sung simultaneously (I) with the 8 HARMONY COLLEGE - 1982. 25·man volunteer membership de­ show "closer" which is "Fun in Excerpts from the HARMO·SSOUR­ velopment team visited the Inter­ Just One Lifetime." (Catalog No. ian, daily school bulletin, best tell national Office for a training ses· 7664). the story of the Society's largest sion, Your chapter will like this show, school to date. and it's all barbershop harmony, 28 MARDI GRAS CHORUS HELPS of course. 12 "THANKS, EO, FOR 25 YEARS:' DENMARK CELEBRATE JULY Not too many chapters have had 4TH. Greater New Orleans Barber­ the same music director for twenty­ shoppers joined Danes for celebra· Contributors five years, In Green Bay, Wis. they tion before touring Sweden and paid tribute to their 25-year man, Merritt Auman ... Dick Girvin ... Hugh Norway. Ingraham. ,. Eric Jackson. ,, Dean Snyder ... Harold VonBlaricon .. , Dan .20 WHERE THERE'S A WILL 32 INSTITUTE SHARES MAGICAL THAT'S THE WAYI There are Waselchuk MOMENTS. Pictures tell the story several ways of repaying the So­ of last year's big events at the In­ ciety for all it's given you. Har- stitute of Logopedics. Conventions Also in this issue INTERNATIONAL 2 THINKING ALOUD 14 BARBERSHOPPERS' SHOP 1983 Seattle, Wash. July 3-10 1984 St. Louis, Mo. July 1-8 3 LETTERS 21 NEW CHAPTERS· BARGAIN 1985 Minneapolis, Minn. June 30-July 7 BASEMENT 1986 Salt Lake City, Ut. June 29-July 6 4 SARASOTA CONVENTION REGIS· TRATION 27 HISTOR ICAL NOTES MID-WINTER 1983 Sarasota, Fla. Jan. 26-29 7 INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT'S 30 CHAPTERS IN ACTION 1984 Honolulu, Hawaii Jan. 25-28 MESSAGE THE HARMONIZERINOVEMBER-OECEMBERI1982 International Officers Prosldent, Merritt F. Auman, P. O. Box 7842, Reading, Pennsylvania 19603 Immediate Past President, Burt HuIsh, 1531 Julie Lane. Twin Falls, Idaho 83301 Vice President, Dr. Hank Vomacka, 1881 Rose Think-ng Street, Sarasota, Florida 33579 Vice President. Gil Lefholz, 13316 E. 51st Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64133 Vice President-Treasurer, John T. Gillespie, 712 Nowgate Road, Kalamazoo, Mt 49007 Aloud • • Board Members • Cardinal, Morris Jennings, 500 Gardner Court, Marion, Indiana 46952 I don't think I'm a barbershop snob. big country and western show sponsored Central States, Thomas M. (Mike) Hines, 3317 Ravenwood Terrace NW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa At least I try not to be. Matter of fact, I by the Nashville convention bureau and 52405 feci my musical tastes are quite catholic. Dixie, Ralph Delano, P. O. Box 9, Benson, Chamber of Commerce. North Carolina 27504 Aside from my obvious devotion to bar­ The show featured Louise Mandrell Evergreen, Harry NeUWirth, 1109 Maple Street, bershop harmony, I enjoy just about Silverton, Oregon 97381 and her husband R.C. Bannon: "Me and Far Western, Beryl Caron, 10809 Wetlworth every kind of choral music. And I mean Ave.• Los Angeles, California 90024 My R.C." I really enjoy most country and Ulinois, Jim Vliet, 807 W. Springfield, Urbana, who wouldn't go bananas about the western. You know, it's close to our type illinois 61801 musicianship of the King's Men. Big band Johnny Appleseed, Darryl Flinn, 7975 Cleve­ of music in many ways. Fairly simple land Ave. NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720 still turns me on as does traditional melody line, tells a story, and it's easy to Land 0' Lakes, Don Challman, 916 W. CountY jazz and dixieland. Blues, I love. I've been Road G2, St. PaUl. Minnesota 55112 harmonize. Mind you, they use instru­ Mid-Atlantic, William Park, Box 470G, RD 1, a more or less regular attender at the Chadds Ford, Ponnsylvanla 19317 ments and in their quartets the bass is Chicago Lyric Opera for years. Broadway Northeastern, Ronnie Menard, 50 Tufts Drive. just about always an octave below the Nashua, New Hampshire 03060 musicals, you bet. Yes, and some of the Ontario, Cliff Watts, 234 Walden Blvd., Fort melody. But it's still good listening music modern pop stuff on the radio. It's when Erie, Ontario L2A 1RS CANADA and has some very interesting melodies. Pioneer, Doran McTaggart, 890 BUckingham, it's live that bothers me; the over-amplifi­ Windsor, Ontario N8S 2C8 CANADA So I was really looking forward to that Rocky Mountain, Jack Sl'nith, 700 Valencia cation just plain hurts my ears. Much of show. Drlvo NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108 country and western I really enjoy. Seneca Land, Robert Culbertson, 43B Buffalo I left very disappointed. Why? Because Street, Franklin, Pennsylvania 16323 So, what's all this leading to? Simply Southwestern, Donald Wagner, 10106 Laing· this. I recently experienced what a lot of the show contained hardly any country troe, Dallas, Texas 75243 and western. That's what I'd gone to hear Sunshine, Bert Warshaw, 9100 SW 16th Streot, the great unwashed must feel when they MIami, Florida 33165 and instead most of it was semi-rock or attend a barbershop show. And Past International Presidents In August, I attended the annual pop, all over-amplified. And that's when it occurred to me that many people going Roger Thomas, 3720 St. Andrews Blvd., Racine, meeting in Chicago of the American Wisconsin 53405 Society of Association Executives.