SOUTHWEST & SOUTHEAST COMBINED DIVISIONAL CONVENTION-CONTESTS SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2017 EL MONTE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 3048 Tyler Ave, El Monte, CA CHORUS CONTEST 10:00 AM QUARTET CONTEST 5:45 PM Hosted by the Masters of Harmony celebrating over 30 years of musical excellence Welcome to the FWD BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY 2017 SW/SE Divisional Contest Welcome to another exciting FWD SW/SE Divisional Contest. This is our first visit to El Monte High School, and we hope you enjoy the contest facilities as much as we like spring weather on the Pacific Coast. Today’s competition will determine who will represent Southern California and Southern Nevada at the Fall District contest in Bakersfield, California this October. We have a great turnout for this contest, and many of you have come a long way to participate. We wish all competitors the best of luck and a wonderful competition experience. Your events team and the Masters of Harmony have done their best to make this Divisional Contest a success. We would like to thank El Monte High School for sharing their facilities and making us welcome. We would also like to thank members of the District Events Team for keeping the contests running smoothly. We dedicate this competition to everyone joining us today, you who “keep the whole world singing.” Please enjoy the show. Tag and polecat singing is encouraged. In Harmony, Bill Rosica SW/SE Divisional Chairmen Team Chairmen District President: Gordon “Mongo” Bergthold SE Division VP: Nick Papageorge • SW Division VP: Brent Anderson Convention Chairmen: Bill Rosica • Events Chairman: Bryan Forbes Treasurer: Rich Owen • District Music & Performance: Craig Ewing Production Manager: Nick Papageorge / Russ Young District C & J Chairman: Ron Black & Brett Littlefield Registration: David Melville • House: Mark Freedkin Stage: Sharon Ernsberger • Host: Larry Fletcher • Printing: Steve Katz Judges Services: Rich Owen, Kristin Hasty & Amnon Avidor Riser Coordination: Tom Christman • Signage: Leonard Jensen 2 Stage Manager: Sharon Ernsberger • Flow Manager: Jim Ernsberger Program: Tim Truesdell Schedule of Events DownloadAll timesscore sheets are approximate, from on-line • http://tinyurl.com/FWD-2017-Scoresheetsexcept contest starting times Morning Event Location 9:00 am Registration Opens Auditorium 9:00 am Chorus / Quartet sign-in table opens Auditorium 9:00 am Doors Open for Quartet Contest Auditorium 9:30 am Judges Meeting/Luncheon Backstage Room 10:00 am Chorus Contest Begins Auditorium Afternoon 1:40 pm CA Announcements Auditorium 2:00 pm Chorus Evaluations, Sesson 1 Auditorium 2:50 pm Chorus Evaluations, Sesson 2 Auditorium 3:35 pm Chorus Evaluations Ends Evening 4:30 pm Doors open for Quartet Contest Auditorium 5:30 pm Quartet contest begins Auditorium 8:24 pm Contest Ends 8:44 pmShow Contest of Results Champions Auditorium 8:55 pm Auditorium 10:10 pm Quartet Evaluations, Sesson 1 Auditorium 10:55 pm Quartet Evaluations, Sesson 2 Auditorium 11:40 pm Quartet Evaluations Ends Show of Champions Immediately following the Quartet Contest Masters of Ceremonies Nick Papageorge & Brent Anderson CA Announcements SW Quartet Champion SE Chorus Champion SE Quartet Champion SW Chorus Champion Keep The Whole World Singing 3 Judging Panel These contests would not be possible without the dedicated services of the Certified Judges in our Society, These men spend up to five years training to earn their credentials and serve without pay. After the contest, the judges provide their appraisal of each group’s performance in an evaluation session, They embody the true spirit of Barbershoppers by giving generously of their coaching and judging talents to ensure the highest levels of the Barbershop craft are maintained. Official Panel of Judges District Vice President for Contest & Judging: Ron Black Contest Administrator Rick Haines - RMD Windsor, CO Bob Lawson - RMD Albuquerque, NM John Burri - EVG Battle Ground, WA Music Ken Potter - EVG Federal Way, WA Rod Sgrignoli - RMD Littleton, CO Performance Greg Caetano - SWD Cypress, TX John Coffin - RMD Denver, CO Sam Papageorge - FWD La Habra, CA Singing Chad Guyton - DIX Cleveland, TN Rik Johnson - CSD O Fallon, MO David Tautkus - FWD Simi Valley, CA All contestants are adjudicated in the following three scoring categories. Each scoring judge awards from 0 to 100 points for each song. Music Category Music is defined as the song and arrangement, as performed. The Music Category judges the arranger's skill and the performer's musicianship in bringing the mood or story of the song to life, and the suitability of the material to the barbershop style. The Music judge is responsible for adjudicating the musical elements of the performance. He judges the degree to which the musical delivery demonstrates an artistic sensitivity to the song's ongoing predominant musical element(s) and mood or story, as well as the extent to which the musical performance displays the hallmarks of the barbershop style. One of the primary hallmarks of barbershop music is its consonant harmony. Thus, the quality of performance depends largely on the ensemble presence, accurate execution, and artistic delivery of the consonant harmonies traditionally identified with the barbershop style. Indirectly, the Music judge evaluates the work of the composer and arranger. A basic prerequisite for a successful barbershop performance is that the song be appropriate to the barbershop style. Performance Category (New) These judges evaluate how effectively a performer brings the song to life. They judge the entertainment value of the performance; the art of the performance. One significant goal of any art form is communication. A barbershop performance refers to how the artist communicates his/her message and vision via the transformation of a song into an entertaining experience for an audience. The performance of a song is the artist’s gift to the audience; whose experiences, memories, and imagination transform that gift into an emotional experience. The performers’ goal is to create a high level of entertainment 4 through the performance. The means to that end are as varied as the personality, abilities and creative skills of the performers. Singing Category In the Singing category we judge artistic singing in the barbershop style – listening holistically for ringing in-tune voices that use a free, beautiful and rich vocal quality, which is wonderfully unified and vocally expressive. Judges in this category evaluate the degree to which the performer achieves artistic singing in the barbershop style: the production of vibrant, rich, resonant, technically accurate, and highly skilled sound, created both by the individual singer's use of good vocal techniques, and by the ensemble processes of tuning, balancing, unity of sound and precision. They listen for a sense of precise intonation, a feeling of fullness or expansion of sound, a perception of a high degree of vocal skill, a high level of unity and consistency throughout the performance, and a freedom from apparent effort that allows the full communication of the lyric and song. Definition of the Barbershop Style Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. The melody is consistently sung by the lead, with the tenor harmonizing above the melody, the bass singing the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completing the chord. Occasional brief passages may be sung by fewer than four voice parts. Barbershop music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies, whose tones clearly define a tonal center and imply major and minor chords and barbershop (dominant and secondary dominant) seventh chords that often resolve around the circle of fifths, while also making use of other resolutions. Barbershop music also features a balanced and symmetrical form, and a standard meter. The basic song and its harmonization are embellished by the arranger to provide appropriate support of the song's theme and to close the song effectively. Sunday, May 21, 2017 • 3 pm Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center 6200 Atherton Street Featuring Long Beach, CA 90815 Main Street (562) 985-7000 www.carpenterarts.org Golden Circle $39 Orchestra $29 5 Chorus Contest Master of Ceremonies Bernard Priceman Video and Audio recordings are not allowed Please turn off all cell phones, pager, and other noisemakers. No flash photography! Digital or other non-flash still photography is permissible. Joe Barbershopper chorus members please come backstage by 9:20am MT Joe Barbershopper Chorus • Director, Ron Black Song #1 ________________________________________ Song #2 ________________________________________ 1. Coastliners • Director, Peter Neushul (SW) - South Bay Chapter, Redondo Beach, CA • Plateau A Song #1 ________________________________________ Song #2 ________________________________________ 2. Valley Harmony Singers • Directors, Jeffery Bunch & Thomas Raffety (SW) - San Fernando Chapter, San Fernando Valley, CA • Plateau A Song #1 _______________________________________ Song #2 _______________________________________ 3. Orange Empire Chorus • Director, Craig Ewing (SE) - Fullerton Chapter, Fullerton, CA • Plateau AA Song #1 _______________________________________ Song #2 _______________________________________ 4. South County Sound • Director, Dawn Castiglione (SW) - South Orange County Chapter, Lake Forest, CA • Plateau AA Song #1 _______________________________________ Song #2