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MORE SINGING OPPORTUNITIES
In addition to the New England Youth A
Capella Jamboree, there are other singing opportunities
available in 2005 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
The New Hampshire High School Barbershop
Festival
The festival is held this year on Saturday
March 12th, 2006. It is sponsored by the
Concord Coachmen Chorus of the Concord NH Chapter (www.harmonize.com/coachmen/index.html).
The Granite Statesmen perform each year on a show that
features several barbershop choruses in New Hampshire, along
with top notch local quartets, and choruses made up of local
high school students, with separate choruses for boys and
girls. Each chorus learns 3 songs. These choruses draw
representatives from all over the state. The students are
sent sheet music and learning tracks prior to the day of the
performance. They then gather at the performance site early
in the morning on the day of the performance and spend the
day preparing for the show under the tutelage of
representatives from The Barbershop Harmony Society, Sweet
Adelines International and Harmony, Inc. After a day of
fellowship and song in preparation for the evening's show,
the students take the stage to sing their hearts out in the
Barbershop Style for an assembly of family, friends, and
local barbershoppers. It is supported by nearly every
barbershop chorus in NH.
For more information,
contact Dan Signor, event chairman and a New Hampshire
choral music educator. Email:
dan_lead@yahoo.com.
The Metro West High School Barbershop
Festival
The festival is held
this year on Saturday March 4th, 2006. It is
sponsored by the Sounds of Concord Chorus of the Concord, MA
Chapter (www.soundsofconcord.org).
This is a choral event for high school boys and girls from
across the Metro West Massachuesetts area. Students come
together for a day of instruction by top quartets and music
educators. With boys and girls choruses, each chorus
learns 3 songs (sheet music is provided months before the
event). The evening concert for family, friends, and the
communtiy was supported by the Sounds of Concord Chorus. For tickets to
the show call 866-206-9067 ext. 7622. For more information
about the Festival, contact Scott Domaratius 781-789-6882
email:
youth@soundsofconcord.org.
Harmony Explosion Camp Northeast
Held this year from August 10-13, 2006 at
Fitchburg State College, high school teachers and male
singers are invited from within 350 miles of the site.
Sponsored by the Barbershop Harmony Society and the
Northeastern District, see the Harmony Explosion website (www.hxcamp.nedymih.org).
Students will receive learning tracks and
sheet music prior to attending. A variety of a cappella
music, including several styles of TTBB, and barbershop will
be learned. Six songs will be prepared for a performance in
a concert on Saturday night. A curriculum of vocal technique
and development, effective warm-ups, ensemble singing, and
rehearsal techniques, plus other classes. Quartet coaching
will be added to the program this year. Top clinicians and a
teaching quartet will be working with the students.
There is also a full music educator
curriculum. Teachers who come will attend seminars on topics
including warm-ups, vocal production, directing techniques,
quartet coaching, riser placement, non-verbal communication
and the conductor, recruiting for your chorus, and more.
Music educators will be sent a course selection listing
for the Harmony College Northeast curriculum which runs
parallel to the HX Camp. Also back by great popular demand
will be the educator chorus! The music educators and
collegiate MENC students will be formed into a mixed chorus.
Music will be sent in advance.
The camp’s staff handles all chaperoning
duties so the music educators are not burdened in any way.
For more information contact, Scott Domaratius, HX Camp
Coordinator email:
hxcamp@rcn.com.
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