LiveWire - 2015-08-14

August 14, 2015

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Sometimes... ya gotta change parts!

Song of the Week

Polecat Roundup

Mark your calendars

Trying something new

I'm just talkin' about Grants

And a Ring-A-Ding-Ding to YOU

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Instant Classic rocks the house at HU

You know it's a good week at HU when you have the outgoing quartet champs AND current champs on campus. We didn't plan it, but on the way home from PGH we realized that we had Theo Hicks on faculty, Kohl Kitzmiller filling in on bari with The Newfangled Four, and David Zimmerman and Kyle Kitzmiller attending as students! Thanks for doing us a favor and winning the thing, fellas. All those gold medals and you can still have a little fun up there.

Instant Classic - You Gotta Change Parts

GROWN UP (BARBERSHOP) CHRISTMAS LIST

Refresh that holiday repertoire!

Last week's song suggestion got you thinking about your holiday set list? We thought so!

Here's a handy way to take a spin through Harmony Marketplace's seasonal options, now with their own section on the web site.

YOU LIKE IT... YOU REALLY LIKE IT

Sing all the Polecats!

The Barberpole Cat Vol. II is FLYING out the door, you guys! Many of you have already purchased this item and we're so pleased you've seen the value in it. We hope it will be an item every chorus utilizes in the future.

This week we highlight the last two songs to be featured in BPC II:

Lida Rose

Over the Rainbow

"Lida Rose", from the hit Broadway musical The Music Man has long been a staple in the Barbershop repertoire. Meredith Willson's classic used an obligato fifth part to up the ante, and arrangers Mo Rector and Nancy Bergman rose to this challenge to create the 8 part arrangement we included in this book. Don't have a female quartet to sing it with you? No problem, since this version can easily be translated into TTBB + soloist or simply cut to the TTBB version with a few easy changes.

"Over the Rainbow" may well be one of the most recognized songs the world over. Fun Fact: The song was nearly cut from The Wizard of Oz! Ed Waesche's masterful treatment of this beautiful song contains two endings: the standard half step up key change and the unexpected and higher key change that Second Edition used. We'll let you pick your favorite, but either way you choose your audiences will thank you.

One last look at the entire list... and a few of their sources!

After You've Gone (Four Voices)

Bright Was the Night (Gas House Gang)

Caroline (Boston Common)

Darkness on the Delta (Bluegrass Student Union)

Drivin' Me Crazy (OC Times and Keepsake)

From the First Hello (Boston Common)

Goodbye My Coney Island Baby

Hello Mary Lou

I Don't Know Why

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Footloose (Just kidding! We wanted to see if you were still reading.)

HU WITHDRAWAL IS REAL

Let the HU countdown begin

Mark your calendars for July 24 - 31, 2016! We are a week earlier in 2016, so start stocking up that vacation time...

As of press time!

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

Small room + Big names = Serious party!

Most chapters fight to sell tickets a chapter show, hoping sales to friends and family, a well-cultivated mailing list, and word of mouth will fill a hall.

The Masters of Harmony aren''t "most chapters." For starters, they can brag eight chorus championships plus four quartet championships in their ranks. So when they come up with an audacious plan for celebrating their 30th anniversary, one has to listen.

Instead of trying to fill a large auditorium of relatively inexpensive seats MOH is staging their September 12 dinner party/show with a limit of 300 guests, at $650 for a table of ten. Bet they can do it, too -- because all four of those champ quartets will be there. Who could say no?

Details: http://mastersofharmony.org/home/

HELP US HELP YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Grant applications accepted beginning September 1

We sing every week. We learn every week. And every week, your Society grows in stature as it doubles and redoubles its efforts to make a difference in peoples' lives.

A powerful tool in that effort is the Society's Outreach Grants program. Thanks to funds underwritten by Harmony Foundation International, we have awarded an astounding $285,000 in 2015 to efforts to encourage singing among youth, seniors, and communities. That amount is expected to grow by ten percent next year, too!

Are YOU ready to make a difference? Another application window opens September 1 through October 31, so now is the time to get planning for 2016.

To assist you through the process of designing and applying for a grant, our Outreach team will release a few webinar videos over the coming weeks. Check back often at www.barbershop.org/resources/membership-resources/grants

First up: Joe Cerutti gives an overview of the program to date, and looks forward to what comes next.

WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY?

One more reason to order: FOREFRONT!

You guys. Forefront. They sang their faces off all week, took home some more hardware, and cheered the very loudest when their buddies won the gold. Class all the way.

Pre-order your convention CDs and DVDs here and enjoy the best of the best... any time you want!

FARE THEE WELL, FRIEND

David Calland departs Foundation for new venture

It is certainly with mixed feelings that we accept David Calland's resignation as Regional Director for Harmony Foundation International. He came to us as a long term employee of Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio and plans to return to that company in a new and challenging position. His son begins High School this fall and so David will be working in the area during these important years instead of travelling as he did for Harmony Foundation.

Everyone knows David as a Barbershopper's barbershopper with a passion that knows no end. We are grateful for the many friends he introduced to the Foundation and will certainly miss him. Yet at the same time we wish him great success in this next chapter. You all know we will see him around these barbershop parts.

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