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Harms continued... Now I want to touch on the board’s decision to adopt a taping program. What does that mean to each member? It means that the chapter leadership wants every one of us to tape ourselves while we sing the songs together on the risers. It means that we want every member to take his tape home to listen to himself, to follow along with the sheet music, to catch the missed words, or missed notes, or missed/added pickups. And it means that when we have made a tape that we think contains our best performance, we can lend that tape to a section leader or other chapter volunteer to review to make helpful suggestions. But that review will be between the member and the reviewer. Our chapter goal is to have every member take part in this training effort and to sing each note and each word accurately. Can we have your support? I’m counting on it. But if you don’t make a tape what will happen? Nothing, except you will not improve your contribution, and you will probably reduce the quality of our performance. So, it’s really important that you cooperate and record yourself for your own critiquing, and for the helpful suggestions another member will have a chance to make. Let’s all get on board with this program.
Harmony Hawks takes a road trip by Richard Anderson If you recall from the The Hawkseye’s July edition, the chapter board got together and decided to take our practice on the road. On Thursday, July 27th we fueled our vehicles and drove to Anamosa were we performed at the local park across from the Lawrence Community Center. The performance began at 7:00 p.m., which lasted about forty-five minutes. We performed a wide variety of songs from our collection and gave the local residents a taste of barbershop harmony music. Under the direction of John Hayden along with Bob Kerdus assisting, the chorus gave a class in Barbershop 101 and showed our audience how four parts together make a chorus of harmony. This was a great opportunity for the chorus to get out and meet with other communities in the Cedar Rapids surrounding areas and share with them the love of barbershop style music. The Harmony Hawks original motive was to meet with the community while promoting the possibility of acquiring new members to the chorus. We concluded the night by spending about ninety minutes at the Lawrence Community Center working on some of our current music and learning new tags..
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