CHORUS PUTS NEW SPIN ON BARBERSHOP : CONCERT TO SHOWCASE FOUR-PART HARMONIES ARRANGED FOR BLUES.Byline: Daily News ``Barbershop quartet'' conjures up images of men wearing waxed mustaches and high starched collars, singing sentimental 1890s tunes in four-part harmony Noun 1. four-part harmony - harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines musical harmony, harmony - the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords . The harmonies will be the same, but the songs and the singers will be different when the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines International Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances. puts on ``Blues in the Night.'' The songs will be jazz, blues and Dixieland - ``After You've Gone, ``Blues in the Night,'' ``When the Saints Go Marching In'' - sung in barbershop-style by women singers, with one male quartet among the guests. ``We're really excited about our show,'' said Lola Negaard, team coordinator for the Antelope Valley Chorus. ``Our chorus will bring together two art forms that are distinctly American - blues and barbershop.'' The concert will begin at 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Tickets are $12. Though the songs won't be the usual ones, the sound will be the typical ``barbershop'' arrangement of lead, tenor, baritone and bass parts in close harmony close harmony Noun a type of singing in which all parts except the bass lie close together . The women sing the parts an octave higher than male singers do. ``Barbershop is a unique way of arranging music in four parts,'' said member Carol McMillan. ``It's the method of chord structure that makes it barbershop.'' The concert will take the framework of an evening in a New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded waterfront cafe, with master of ceremonies Lynne Smith - a vocal coach A vocal coach is a person, who works with singers on their singing technique, care and development of the voice, performance and preparation of a work. The coach may give instruction to the singer in private lessons, on stage, or during a recording session. and choreographer from Yorba Linda Yorba Linda (yôr`bə lĭn`də), city (1990 pop. 52,422), Orange co., S Calif., in a region of citrus fruit; inc. 1967. The city has grown tremendously along with the southern California area; its population increased fivefold between - introducing each act. Guest performers will include Angel City, a La Crescenta quartet that was 1996 champion for the Sweet Adelines International region that runs from Fresno to Downey to Las Vegas, and a men's quartet, Benchmark. Also performing will be groups drawn from the 30-plus members of the Antelope Valley Chorus: Shimmer , which made the 1995 International competition; Imagination Station, which finished second among novice quartets for the region; and a double quartet, Friends in a Chord. Sweet Adelines International is a nonprofit women's educational organization dedicated to the promotion of what its members call one of America's truly native art forms, barbershop harmony. Founded in 1945 in Tulsa, Okla., the group has nearly 30,000 members in more than a dozen countries. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Sweet Adelines International's Antelope Valley group sings barbershop arrangements. |
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