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April 2006 InCider Press Page 3 |
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The show is now only just a little over two weeks away! I would like to encourage you to, in addition to reviewing your music each day, to think about what you can do to stay healthy! This is a time when colds can creep up and wipe us out. What can you do? Get your rest, stay away from other people who have colds, eat right, wash your hands, etc., etc., etc. You all know the drills, but please do all you can to insure that you can be effective on the risers come April 29th. It is always more fun when we have a lot of people to sing to. How about making one last effort to sell just 6 more tickets! If 60 guys sold just 6 more tickets each, that is 360 more people to sing to. As you already know, selling tickets is just a matter of effort. And, again, the reward is that it is a whole lot more fun when the auditorium is full. We have several new members who will be singing on the show for the first time. Many of them are singing with us because they heard us perform, saw that we were having a good time, obviously liked the kind of music we sing, and decided it was for them. Now, it was announced at the board meeting that we will have another "guest night" on May 18th. What better way to get some more new members than by inviting them to our show, then to the "guest night" on May 18th. If they see and hear us, there is a much better chance that they will want to join with us and enjoy this hobby as we do. We have six guys who are providing the narrations for the show. I would like to publicly thank each of them for their extra effort to learn the narrations and provide the "set-ups" for the music. This is an important aspect of the show this year. If you see any of them, be sure to give them your encouragement! I am really excited about how the music is coming together. However, it is apparent each week that we have quite a few guys who do not look at their music between Thursdays. I would implore you to make that extra effort these last couple of weeks to review each song each day. It will help Ken so much as he continues to prepare us for the show. Don Thomson Associate Director |
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Last minute advice |
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Our spring chapter OPEN HOUSE is scheduled for May 18th. Chapter members need to start thinking about the people they would like to invite to join the Chapter. Each Chapter Member needs to think about and remember that "Membership Begins with ME." Bill Hanson |
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Permit me to bother you all for just a moment to celebrate the 68th birthday of The Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, as it was originally known. I sometimes wonder how hard it was to change that to Encouragement? As the Barbershop Harmony Society staff partakes of birthday cake in the break room (sorry, Board members, you’ll have to get your own) I think it appropriate to laud and enjoy all the achievements and progress the Society has enjoyed over those many years. Yes, we can always improve and we’re all working hard to do that, but we must not let that enthusiasm for change cloud an appreciation of what we enjoy today. Congratulations to all the members, the quartets and the choruses that have chosen to sing, to enrich lives through singing. They have enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, a hobby that stretches from the Bartlesville Barflies to Realtime; that includes OC Cash, Rupert Hall, Sean Divine, Charlie Metzger and Joe Barbershopper; that involves Dick Van Dyke and Norman Rockwell, Jim Henry and Tom Neal; that requires countless hours of dedication and volunteer work; that brings smiles to faces and joy to hearts; that engages the best aspects of humanity; that increases in complexity the more it is studied; and that will continue as long as people enjoy singing. Happy sixty-eighth, Society, and MANY returns of the day! E. D. Watson Executive Director/CEO
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Happy 68th Birthday |
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We registered sometime around 1978 and performed regularly for various groups and churches in and around the Manhattan area. Dave Dohrman, an engineering student at K-State, was our original bass and Leonard Purvis replaced him in the quartet when Dave graduated from K-State and moved to Nebraska to work for the New Holland machinery company. The quartet sang together until 1982 when my job responsibilities took me to Kansas City and we no longer had the opportunity to practice on a regular basis. Singing in that quartet provided some of the best musical experiences of my Barbershop career and I thoroughly enjoy each time we have an opportunity to sing together again. Bill Hanson
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It is the Classic Impressions. |