Cherry Capital Chorus
Sharing Center Stage
© 1997 Cherry Capital Chorus
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Barbershop, A Cappella Vocal singing
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- 1 There's No Business Like Show Business
- 2 It's a Grand Night For Singing
- 3 I'm Sittin' On Top of the World
- 4 Caroline
- 5 Introduction to the Music Man
- 6 Ya Got Trouble
- 7 Good Night My Someone
- 8 Pick a Little, Talk a Little
- 9 The Sadder but Wiser Girl
- 10 Lida Rose
- 11 Shipoopie
- 12 Till There Was You
- 13 76 Trombones
- 14 My Honey's Loving Arms
- 15 Jubilee
- 16 Wait Till the Sunshines, Nellie
- 17 You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline
- 18 Honey/little Lize Medley
- 19 Working On the Raliroad
- 20 Back in the Old Routine
- 21 The Old Songs
- 22 Good-bye My Coney Island Baby
- 23 Back in the Days Gone By
- 24 On a Wonderful Day Like Today
- 25 Bright Was the Night
- 26 I Don't Know Why
- 27 One Heart, One Voice
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Album Title: Sharing Center Stage
Cherry Capital Chorus
Traverse Symphony Orchestra
And Friends
A Celebration of Barbershop Music, live and in concert from Corson Auditorium at Interlochen Arts Academy, and Milliken Auditorium at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Michigan.
The Cherry Capital Chorus:
On the first weekend of June, 1967 the 40 man Cherry Capital Chorus presented their first "June Night Of Harmony" at Lars Hockstad Auditorium. To this day, the same weekend of musical celebration brings joyous barbershop melodies to over 2000 appreciative fans in Corson Auditorium on the campus of the Interlochen Arts Academy.
The Chorus practices every week. New members and visitors are welcome. Members must be able to carry a tune and want to help fulfill the chapter mission.
The chapter mission is "to maximize our joy as Barbershoppers by musically being all we can be, while enriching our communities with great harmony and good works". Money is raised through performance related activities (like this CD) throughout the year. The Chapter donates over $7000 annually to hearing and speech related charities in the community. The CCC also supports the S.P.E.B.E.Q.S.A. Harmony Foundation.
Traverse City has rightfully earned a reputation as a center for artistic excellence in the nation. Beginning in 1927 with the efforts of Interlochen Center For The Arts founder Joseph Maddy, the Grand Traverse area offers the entire spectrum of the arts to visitors and residents all year round. The TSO and the CCC, just two of the many performing musical organizations active in the area, remain justifiably proud of their leadership roles.
By 1996, the CCC decided to produce its own CD. The 1997 June Night Of Harmony, on June 6 and 7, 1997, provided the first recording opportunity for the Chorus. Several of the songs on this CD came from that show.
Coincidentally, earlier in the Spring of 1997, the TSO considered opening their 1997/98 season with a joint production: combining a symphony orchestra with the traditionally a capella barbershop style. Marty Chirgwin knew of some barbershop music already arranged for symphony orchestra and chorus that was available through S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. As word of the collaboration spread through the two organizations, enthusiasm for the idea grew. On October 4, 1997, in Corson Auditorium, a sold out audience showed their enthusiasm for the combined performance by offering two standing ovations.
With this second concert recorded, and adding a wonderful Chorus concert at Milliken Auditorium on March 19, 1998 for the volunteer staff af the Dennos Museum, the Chorus approached the TSO about a joint venture CD. Eagerly embracing the idea, a collaboration between the TSO and the CCC brought the various elements of CD production together and the happy result is the album you now enjoy. The members of both the TSO and the CCC hope you have as much fun listening to their music as they have had making it available to you.
Did people actually sing barbershop in barbershops?
Certainly - and on street corners, at social functions, and in parlors. Barbershop is a melting pot of African-American music and European hymn-singing.
At the end of the last century, Vaudeville's popularity overtook that of the minstrel show, but the inclusion of close-harmony male quartets remained. The first written word "barbershop" when referring to harmonizing, came in 1910, with the publication of the song, "Play That Barbershop Chord".
By the early 1900s, pop music success depended on sales of sheet music rather than recorded music as today. Songs had to be easy for singers with average vocal ranges and control which called for songs with simple, straightforward melodies, and heartfelt, commonplace themes. Harmonizing enhanced enjoyment and developed a tradition of four part ensemble singing in America that continues today.
What is Barbershop Music?
The Society For The Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) is devoted to promoting this special form of harmony known as Barbershop. Technically speaking, barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied singing with three voices harmonizing to the melody. The lead sings the melody, with the tenor harmonizing above the lead, the bass on the bottom with the baritone completing this distinctive sound singing both above and below the lead line. The common use of the dominant 7th chord gives barbershop its uniquely "full" sound. Barbershop harmonizing comes naturally to many singers because the chords fit the ear singers expectations.