The pitchpipemagazine.com | April 2019 | Volume 72 — No.4 PitchTHE VOICE OF SWEET ADELINES Pipe INTERNATIONAL Life on a High Note. TPP_April_2019_FINAL.indd 1 3/6/19 11:00 AM Barbershoppin’ the Big Easy! Experience the historic neighborhoods, iconic streets, fabulous food and rich musical history of New Orleans during Sweet Adelines International Convention and Competition. Join us for our greatest week of the year! Save up to $50 USD on early registration! Early registration pricing ends May 29, 2019 73rd Annual Convention and Competition Sept. 16-21, 2019 • Smoothie King Center New Orleans, La., USA Visit www.sweetadelines.com/neworleans for registration and event information. TPP_April_2019_FINAL.indd 2 3/6/19 11:00 AM The PitchApril 2019 • Volume Pipe 72 — No.4 Visioning Retreat participants gather for a photo at Sweet Adelines International Headquarters in Tulsa, OK (USA). Features Headquarters Headlines 18 Open Division Q&A with Paula Davis 4 Judge Training with Lustre 20 Born to Teach 6 Meet New IBOD Member Jennifer Harris 21 Introducing the Arranger Certification Program 7 Meet New IBOD Member Leslie Galbreath 22 Countdown to 75 Years 8 Learning to Listen by Being Heard 37 My Director Always Says... 40 2018 Donor List 38 Friendship Week – An Amazing Experience! 48 Regional Calendar Swedish and Japanese Choruses Sing in Harmony Together In Every Issue 3 From Our President Events 5 From Our CEO 10 Sing and Celebrate at Sweet Adelines 25 Harmony Roundup International Education Symposium 2019 46 Accolades/In Memory 14 A Brand New Song and Dance: Directors and Visual Leaders Seminar 2019 On The Cover 26 Barbershoppin' the Big Easy! 73rd Annual Convention and Competition These images of our members in action were captured at the 2018 Sweet Adelines International Convention in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). They display the musical, personal and inspirational aspects of our organization expressed in our new outreach campaign, “Life on a High Note.” These images and others like them are also featured on the new website. April 2019 | 1 TPP_April_2019_FINAL.indd 1 3/6/19 11:00 AM The Pitch Pipe April 2019 | Volume 72 — No.4 | www.pitchpipemagazine.com. SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL A worldwide women's singing organization committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through opportunities in education, performance and competition. _____________________________________ INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Tammy Talbot Chief Executive Officer Richard Huenefeld Chief Financial Officer Tamatha Goad Editor-in-Chief Kim Berrey Save up to Managing Editor Stacy Pratt Associate Editor/Staff Writer Ben Larscheid Graphic Designer $50 USD Joey Bertsch and Lauren Stark Staff Photographers Kim Berrey Advertising on Early 918.622.1444 • [email protected] INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS May 1, 2018 – April 30, 2019 Patty Cobb Baker, International President Registration Paula Davis, Immediate Past President Joan Boutilier, President-elect Thérèse Antonini,Secretary JD Crowe, Treasurer Sharon Cartwright Janice McKenna Rates! Jennifer Cooke Renée Porzel Peggy Gram Mary Rhea Cammi MacKinlay EDUCATION DIRECTION COMMITTEE Register Today! 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[email protected]. Not all submissions will be published. ______________________________________ THE PITCH PIPE (ISSN 0882-214X) Remaining 2019 Copy Deadlines (USPS 603-060) is published quarterly: January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 by Sweet Adelines International • May 6 (July 2019 issue) Periodicals paid at Tulsa, OK U.S.A. and additional mailing offices. • Aug. 5 (Oct. 2019 issue) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE PITCH PIPE 9110 S. Toledo Ave., Tulsa, OK 74137 U.S.A. Change of Address: Canadian Post Agreement Number: 1453408 Send Canadian change of address information Let us Know Where You Are and blocks of undeliverable copies to: P.O. Box 1051, Fort Erie, ON L2A 6C7 Canada Please be sure headquarters has your current address to Entire contents are copyright © 2019 by ensure you receive The Pitch Pipe and non-electronic Sweet Adelines International. All rights reserved. mailings. Log in to the membership database at HARMONIZE THE CYBER WORLD members.sweetadelines.com. Click on "My Profile," then @SweetAdelinesIntl @SweetAdsIntl "Contact Info" and update the appropriate information. @SweetAdelinesIntl @SweetAdsIntl @SweetAdelineIntl Remember to use #iamsweetadelines on social media. 2 | April 2019 Headquarters uses this # to find your posts, photos and tweets to share across Sweet Adelines social media channels. TPP_April_2019_FINAL.indd 2 3/6/19 11:00 AM From Our President THE VALUE OF ALIGNMENT s singers, we understand the importance of proper body This creative and collaborative process is exciting and revitalizing, alignment to the production of good vocal sound. In fact, generating new energy in all that we do. And, just as when we focus on it a great deal when first learning how to make learning how to align our bodies for singing we must focus on the it a routine singing habit. Where are my feet? Are my knees soft, is many details of what we are doing, realigning an organization’s Amy sternum lifted, what’s going on with my pelvis, ribs, shoulders essential values to its strategic efforts takes time, dedication, and and arms? What about my neck and chin? So many elements of the concentrated thought. The Visioning Team has worked extensively body to tend to, and so much to think about when first learning on creating a 10-year vision and its five guiding principles for those basic principles of good alignment and what it feels like to our organization. Those crucially aligned statements will guide achieve it. We make and take the time to learn it because we know everything that we do over the next ten years. In June, the it’s crucial to the singing process. How many of you have watched International Board of Directors will update our current strategic a voice teacher adjust the length of the singer’s neck or the position plan guided by this vision and its fundamental values. When of their chin by a mere millimeter and then hear the singer’s sound complete, this comprehensive work will provide our roadmap to completely free up and change noticeably? Alignment matters. the future. It’s a very exciting time to be a Sweet Adeline! Of course, alignment matters in many areas of life and in the world in which we live. My car’s tires need to be aligned or I’ll be buying new ones sooner than I’d like! Parents spend thousands of In harmony, dollars getting their children’s teeth aligned, chiropractors make a living aligning spines, and we hope and pray that our planets are forever aligned! Don’t you love it when, driving down long streets with lots of traffic lights, the lights are totally aligned with the speed at which you are driving? Yes! Alignment is good, it makes Patty Cobb Baker things work, it makes things easier, it helps create success. International President Organizations know the importance of alignment, too. In particular, they know how important it is that an organization’s mission aligns with its core essential values and that all activities undertaken by the organization are aligned with and driven by that mission and those values. This kind of alignment provides clarity of purpose, action and outcome. It ensures that the flock flies in formation, never at cross purposes, and that the organization’s precious resources are expended effectively. Throughout its almost 75 years of existence, Sweet Adelines International has performed many an alignment check—ensuring that at any point in our history our values are aligned to our mission and to our strategic goals. We are undergoing such a process now. Fueled by member input and outsourced research collected over the last two years, the Sweet Adelines International Life on a High Note. Visioning Retreat held last November kicked off a robust realignment of the values, mission and strategic priorities that will guide us into the next 10 years of harmonizing the world. April 2019 | 3 TPP_April_2019_FINAL.indd 3 3/6/19 11:00 AM IT’S ALL IN THE INTERPRETATION: JUDGE TRAINING WITH LUSTRE “It was an honor to be given this unprecedented invitation.” Lustre, the 2018 Queens of Harmony, participated in Judge Training last August in Tulsa, OK (USA). We spoke with the quartet about what they learned from the experience. Can you give an example of how this experience changed the way you interpret scoresheet comments? We had a few moments where we learned that our definition of a word was different from theirs! Specifically, we didn’t realize that “your work shows here” was a compliment. It doesn’t mean “you’re trying too hard,” it means “we see the effect of your rehearsals.” What was the most helpful part of working with FOUR PARTS, the judges? Scoresheets without specific indications of how to ONE HEART! get to the next level were hard for us to decipher.