The whole thing is obscenely good. Is this Woesche arrangement? Anywhere to buy a copy?

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What a luck to have been there! Breathtaking! One question: do you know if this quartet exists nowadays?

@@elsincuello The members are still around but this quartet retired decades ago...www.aicgold.com/1989-second-edition/

@@elsincuello David Harrington, their lead, used to direct the Zero8 SNOBS Chorus, and their tenor Fred Farrell went on to sing tenor for Crossroads, who won Internationals in '09.

Parker Rognrud It was actually their baritone, Doug Harrington (brother to David) that directed Zero8.

Wahl95 That’s right. Thanks!

I believe it's Ed Waesche.

It's in the Polecat II book

jr57 met most happy fellows Barber Shop somewhere over the rainbow

yes..they won gold medal!

Yep.

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It “delivers me”!👌

I understand...I first heard them when Doug was a pre-teen singing tenor. They (The Harrington Brothers) were not well received by the "old guard" because they were too young. They had what it took then, just sad to see they didn't get the chance to turn the society onto it's ear.

Music theory teaches about chord voicing, spacing, chord progressions, , and 4 part harmony writing. Someone educated made all the right decisions

The point of barbershop is that it is all about close harmony and dominant seventh chords. The close harmony makes the voices pop, the dominant sevenths keep the music always moving forward. :-)

The big thing is having all the pitches in perfect intonation. This allows the overtones to be heard clearly, which makes the sound much bigger.

hughvane Don't judge the quartets they are actually judged in competition on all of that. They just want to win.

hughvane It's called the "Presentation" category. It's one of the three categories that competitive barbershop singing is judged on along with "Singing" and "Music". Presentation is described by the Barbershop Harmony Society as follows: One significant goal of any art form is communication. In a barbershop performance "Presentation" is communication via the transformation of a song into an entertaining experience for an audience. The presentation of a song is the performer's gift to the audience; whose experiences, memories, and imagination transform that gift into an emotional experience. The performer's goal is to create a high level of entertainment through the performance. The means to that end are as varied as the personality, abilities and creative skills of the performers. The performance is measured in its ability to musically connect with the emotions and senses of the audience through aural, visual, and sometimes spiritual channels. So to just stand there with blank expressions on their faces and no movement would result in very low scores in this category.

cicholdebannan Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it. First and foremost, I acknowledge the competition requirements, I just don't agree with the choreography component(s). Mine is a purely personal opinion of what I see, contrasted with what I hear. For the same reason I cannot cope with opera, although I adore classical music. In other words, I'm a listener rather than a viewer. For comparison's sake, try listening to the Chordettes, whose harmonies were at times exquisite, and they didn't need to dramatise them. Then come forward in time to Celtic Woman, who have adopted various facial expressions and head movements to - as they perceive it - emphasise what they're singing. I don't enjoy watching it, although their singing is often gorgeous. From another angle, listen to and watch The Real Group, whose voices say it all.

+hughvane I started in BBS back then and this was what the judges seemed to like, big loud chords, the presentation style etc. things have changed much and will continue changing as the years go by.

I agree fully. They have (had, sadly) so much chemistry, vocal chemistry that seems to be magical for me.

And that "wow" 2:05!

Yes!!!!

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