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Harmony ShowNov. ' 6masspeetm av5th annual Rourd.l'p of Harmony show is scheduled u r 8 ,i‘, ■pm. Nov. 16 in the city au : ;gchapter of the Slt; met- -or tie Preservation and F.-u our.icemert Barber Shop Quartet Sinking inAmerica. and co sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club. j ThIt will be a hi? mcht uitu quar- ;vlets and choruses corning from rehe all o\er West Texas and Dallas in t! to beef up the local performersChoruses will come from LubbockOdessa. Lamesa and San Angelo Championship quartet' will include cone the Four Pesos of El Paso and the of w Madcaps of Dallas The Big Spring Mi rhorus will also !e on hand to act : erouas hosts and to sing. Sprittype of harmony you will *tr nhear the evening of Nov 16 is one hearwhich almost became extinct. Bar- j instrbershop harmony is one of two or nowthree exclusively American contri- by Ibuttons to the field of mu.de Ml menbarbershop singing is built ham- in-drcalljr around the seventh chord, jviohwith an occasional fifth, sixth or edninth chord added for rout rap. or dacontinuity.Because the human \oice i the staclmost perfect musical instrument w-m barbershoppers are able to uL nwthe diatonic scale. The minute adjust • OUt of O! e O!d serves to lock the harmony Dooland an effect is produced which is ' unobtainable with a permanently bins tuned instrument such a the tm ‘ •ano or organ. In barbershop p.-r .Mis lance, a “bright” tone is produced. Tan But all in all, barbershoppers !»• • • for all the technicalities of music, | sine the way music sounds best toand not always in accord-1 pa ance with the way it e written or •mo**Tickets for the show will be onlyone dollar, no seats reserwd r.pr The local barbershoppers, inci- [4(ndentally, will begin a membershipdrive immediately aft the how will kick it off with an ‘ old-timers” night, including a feed
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 10, 1957
Page 30
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