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I am sad today.

Our Denver MountainAires chapter (barbershop harmony) lost one of our own, Rex Abelein. Rex was mister bar-bershopper to a lot of us, including me. I grew up in this chapter, being 19 when I joined. Rex always had an encouraging word and a friend-ly smile. One of the truly great guys, he sang a "mean ba-ri!" I'm so proud to have sung with him in the Chord Weav-ers (as a substitute lead and/or tenor) and also in the Har-mony Emporium (tenor). Now the Chord Weavers have their baritone with them as they harmonize across the heavens (Clark, Don, Rex, and Van). These four gentle-men helped to start our Youth In Harmony program in the early '80's.

Rex had been experiencing some health issues over the last ten years. Despite hobbling around and losing his sight, Rex still held down his spot on the risers and in his quartet(s). I bet he went singing! It's hard to write this! I loved this guy! You are missed, my friend!

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About two weeks ago, I was coming out of a Golden Pain Clinic, and who do I see? A grinning Lev Ropes in a wheelchair being pushed towards me by a friend of his. Lev promptly stuck out his hand for me to shake, saying, “Hello stranger!” Sad to say, our friend has suffered a stroke and his speaking skills are now limited. For those of you who remember Lev, he was a commanding presence in the bass section and had quite a flair for the spoken word. I will forever be indebted to Lev for introducing me to the wonderful word of computers for editing bulletins by selling me a used Mac — cheap! He lived just six blocks away, so I received many a lesson in his basement office. Fun times with a great guy and a good friend.

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Lifted from an email from past member Ron Skabo to President Bob Kaes

Unfortunately, I received word that Rex Abelein died yesterday. Apparently, he fell at home, suffering internal injuries. I think he died at the hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending, as their pas-tor is out of the country, so they will wait until he returns. Arrangements are by Aspen Mortuary.

Chelsea Asmus, Oct. 24th It is hard to go to rehearsal when you know one of the best people has passed on. Rex, you are missed. We had to really think about starting and ending re-hearsal tonight. Your love for After Dark and your passion when you directed Keep the Whole World Singing made everyone want to sing more. Now, friend, the light will shine forever around you. Tonight, it was empty without you. I cried all the way home, hearing you tell me "young lady...." expecting your wisdom to follow. Rex, you were more than a baritone, you were on fire for helping others; your energy never ceased to amaze me. Rest in peace, Rex.

Al Klinger, Nov. 5th Rex's funeral was this past Friday, Nov. 3rd, at The Light of Christ Church in Denver. The church had printed 150 bulletins for the funeral and ran out by about 15 minutes before the service even started. I would estimate over 200 people were in attendance with the Denver MountainAires well represented by present and past members. The Grace Notes sang "Precious Lord" and the energetic Burt Szabo ar-rangement of "A Little Talk With Jesus" that broke the solemn mood of the "High Anglican Worship Service" when rhythmic clapping broke out, by everyone, during the last chorus ... Rex would have loved it!

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Dec. 16 “Holiday Harmony”

Colo. Chord Company Praise Ringers

Colo. School of Mines Madrigal Singers

Dec. 16 Christmas Show

Colo. Chord Company

Tues., Dec. 19 Children's Hospital, 7:00 pm

Tues., Dec. 26 Denver Botanic Gardens, 6:00 pm

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Officer Installation &Awards Dinner Jeff Maen’s clubhouse

Mon., Feb 19 High School Quartet Contest Arvada High School, 7:00 pm

July International Convention

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Summer Harmony Camp YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park

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Joe Gibson Oct. 17th

On Friday, Oct. 20, at 3 pm. a Cele-bration of Life for Robert Warren was held at the First Unitarian Church in Den-ver, at 1400 N. Lafayette St. in Denver.

“Robert sang in the lead section of our chorus for a couple of years but had not been attending our rehearsals or performances since last Christ-mas. He passed two weeks ago from cancer at the age of 77. I knew him for about 50 years and I will be say-ing a few words at his memorial.”

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I’m very sad to report that Curtis Klinger has passed away. Curtis was Al’s brother, living in Arizona. Curtis was Master of Ceremonies at several of our shows. A strong friend of the chapter, Curtis will be deeply missed and fondly remem-bered.

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Music VP

Tony Pranaitis

♪♪♪ Music Notes ♪♪♪♪♪♪ Music Notes ♪♪♪ We are revising the song learning sched-

ule, to get caught up on the songs where we fell behind, and to give the Music Committee a little more time to get caught up on production of tracks for Ding Dong Merrily On High and O Tannenbaum.

Just so you know, we are singing Ding Dong Merrily On High with the handbell choir, and we are using THEIR arrangement. We took a very basic barbershop arrangement of the song and made revisions based on what needed to be changed to match the handbell arrangement. That has finally concluded and Bob Dickman (who has been notating our chart and moving notes here and there until we reached everyone's satisfaction) will be generating our arrangement in print form sometime this week. The Music Committee will record the learning tracks on Oct. 24th and they will be sent out shortly afterward. So, that song has been delayed until the end of this month.

O Tannenbaum will need some volunteers to sing a verse in German. It could be an individual who would like to sing the mel-ody solo in German, or a quartet that would sing four part harmo-ny in German. Tune: "O Christmas Tree" (Yuletide Favorites). If you are interested in participating, please let me know. The cho-rus will be learning the opening / closing line of each verse (there are three) in German. This is the equivalent to: "O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how evergreen your branches" (which is sung twice at the beginning of a verse and once at the end...pretty simple).

We will have learning tracks of the whole song in German, so the chorus can learn it's single line for each verse, and volunteers can learn the "inside" lyrics on each verse. If you are familiar with German, or just happen to be good with languages, please use your skill in this role for the show. These tracks will also be avail-able at the end of October or early November.

We will move We Wish You A Merry Christmas ahead of these songs in the learning schedule. For next week, work at mastering Do You Hear What I Hear and Feliz Navidad and clean up other songs we have already introduced this season. Because there is a lot of repetition in Feliz Navidad, as well as flipping around with a repeat and a coda, I find it helpful to just look at the lyric from start to finish, so I have typed out the lyrics below. You can print this as a lyric sheet and try singing from the lyric sheet in rehearsal (see if you can first memorize the notes, then gradu-ally wean yourself off the lyric sheet).

The location of our Christmas show on Dec 16, and it is AR-VADA HIGH (65th and Wadsworth). Please know that this is NOT Arvada West (64th and Simms).

Ken Po er, Director,

Northwest Sound, Bellevue, Washington

Think inside the breath. Without breath, there is no vocal music. As you breathe, so shall you sing. If you breathe for your musical phrase, you shall sing musi‐cally. For within the breathe, there is musical life. And when you can breathe musically without think‐ing, you shall eliminate all distrac ons from your musicianship. Breathe because you wish to add life to the music. It requires much deeper thought.


We ARE singing at the Colorado Chord Company show at 7:00 pm on Dec.16th, and that is at 108th and Huron. You will have time to catch some dinner between shows.

Aside from some tickets that we will give to the Handbell Choir for their performance, the rest of the tickets are ours to sell, and that's over 600 seats. We have a GREAT opportunity to present our wonderful show to a packed house and we can earn over half of our budget for 2018. The Christmas show is obviously the EASIEST show to sell, and if we can do it well, we can literally relax for the rest of the (upcoming) year.

The gold-medal chorus from the St. Louis area, the Ambas-sadors of Harmony, sell out FIVE performances of their Christ-mas show every year. This income not only pays their bills for the year, but even purchases registrations for all members to attend the International Convention. Then they win the chorus contest virtually every three years, when they become eligible after sitting out two years, which is required after winning the contest.

So instead of each man in our chapter selling 10 tickets to this show, let's each set a goal to sell TWENTY (or more).

Chorus Director

Chelsea Asmus

Director on the loose!

Congratula ons to the two newest RMD Barbershoppers of the Year! At the recent Fall Conven on of the RMD, the Barbershopper of the Year (BOTY) was named for both 2016 and 2017. Those awarded this honor were Woody Woods, 2016, and Bre Foster, 2017


This is the article that happens when Steve asks you for something and you say you have something but you really don’t because your other four jobs are climaxing all at the same time.

A question came up from the membership to the di-rector; more of a request, actually. That was to not spend all of September and October on Christmas music. I felt trapped. Any director of any choir will tell you that Christ-mas music gets passed out in August, early September at the latest. But how much time do we really need to get Christmas rep under our belts?

For most chapters at least mid-September through mid-December is the answer. We put on hour and a half long shows one of the weekends in December and only meet once a week. That is about 14-17 pieces of music to learn in 13-14 weeks. So every member of every chapter will learn a song and a half a week, perfectly, and the cho-rus will perform it flawlessly the first or second weekend of December. How many of you directors out there are rolling your eyes?

I did too, but realized how little I wanted to hear Christmas music in August. So I digested this member’s request. In our chapter, the music team tries to stack each concert with a few new pieces, but mostly songs we can recycle. We also have a learning calendar that allows for the membership to live their normal lives--aka holiday trav-el/game night/family emergencies.

Thinking about the request, I came to the compromise of first half of rehearsal will be “holiday charts” and the second half will be skill building with older repertoire songs. This way, we are forced to stick closely to the learning schedule, members are required to spend some time out of rehearsal learning, and we still get to sing songs that don’t mention sleigh bells or Santa.

Around mid-October, of course, it is time to get serious about the Christmas repertpoire and get the show roughly put together. We still have a couple of simple pieces that we have only picked up this week, however, they are well within the ability of the chorus to learn well in the time allot-ted. The rehearsals are now focused fully on the show to come, but I try to get the guys singing a stock, “any time” barbershop song each week.

Though my feet are planted on when to start learning the holiday spectacular music, I HIGHLY recommend the mix. If your chorus picks up charts quickly, plan accordingly. If it takes a little longer, plan accordingly. I would love to hear other director’s thoughts on this as well. Feel free to send me or the lovely editor an email to let us know what has worked for you! Is that a Bb I hear?

Robert (Bob) Clay Warren was born to Robert and Helen Warren in Pampa, Texas on Dec. 15, 1939. Bob grew up with his younger brothers Charlie and Mark, attended Pampa High School, and was a star running back on the football team and sprinter on the track team. Bob was the first person in his family to graduate from college, obtaining a B.A. in Sociology from Baylor University in 1962, a Master’s degree in Social Work from Louisiana State University in 1964, and a Ph.D in Clinical Social Work from the University of Denver in 1978.

Bob had a fascinating and highly successful career as a psychotherapist. During his career, Bob worked as a social worker at the Wisconsin School for Boys, at the University of Colorado Children’s Hospital, on the crisis team at Fort Logan Mental Health Center, and as the Director of Mental Health for the Colorado Department of Corrections. Bob also had a private psychotherapy practice for over 40 years in Colorado Springs, Denver, Pueblo, and Dillon, Colorado.

In 1994 Bob founded the Bijou Treatment and Training Institute (“BTTI”) in Colorado Springs, focusing on the treatment and rehabilitation of sex offenders and the train-ing of other therapists in the field. Although Bob said he was officially “retired,” he never completely left the practice of psychotherapy and was still seeing clients at the time of his death.

Bob lived his life courageously. His chosen career path of providing mental health services to sex offenders exem-plified his belief that all individuals deserved compassion, support, and a second chance. His ongoing commitment to helping this group took tremendous courage due to the difficulty of the subject matter and the negative stigma at-tached to his clients. Bob can be credited with saving many of his clients’ lives from additional suffering and trau-ma, as well as protecting countless potential future victims from harm.

However, Bob will be remembered most by his family for his endless love and devotion. Bob married his high school sweetheart Kay Waggoner in 1960, and during their 26 years of marriage they raised two amazing children, Chandler and Jill, who brought four amazing grandchildren into his life: Kaycie, Erica, Jacob and Noah.

Bob was the consummate cham-pion for his children and grandchil-dren, attending their sporting and oth-er events throughout their lives, and his relationship with his children and grandchildren was the living embodi-ment of the term “unconditional love.” Bob’s grandchildren will always re-member him as their “Papa Bear,” and will always treasure their time with him, whether it was attending football games, spending time at his beloved Dillon condo, sharing family meals, or going on countless “adventures.”

Bob’s other passions in life includ-ed the Broncos and the Rockies, bicycling, and traveling throughout the world. He was a voracious reader, loved attending the symphony and other cultural events, and pursued adult education classes. In his later years, despite his self-proclaimed inability to carry a tune, Bob found tre-mendous joy in singing with his barbershop chorus, the Denver MountainAires. Bob was also a writer who loved to write poetry and work on his memoirs.

In March 2015 Bob met Helen Berkman at a DU recep-tion. They shared life together in Denver and at Bob’s be-loved Dillon condo. Together they bicycled throughout Col-orado, enjoyed many trips in the U.S. and Canada, attend-ed Rockies games, and found great happiness and love together.

Bob is survived by his loving partner Helen Berkman, daughter Jill Carl and her husband Ron Carl and grand-sons Jacob and Noah Carl, his son Chandler Warren and his fiancee Cyndy Williams, his granddaughter Kaycie Kimmich and her husband Greg Kimmich, his granddaugh-ter Erica Warren and her partner Micky Koonce and great-grandson Mikey Koonce. He is also survived by his brother Charles Warren and his wife Durinda Warren, and brother Mark Warren and his wife Freada Warren, and many be-loved nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, we are asking that donations be

made in the name of Robert Warren to the Second Wind Fund. Details on how to donate can be found at http://www.thesecondwindfund.org/donate


Robert Warren

Dec. 15, 1939 - Oct. 5, 2017


Music VP

Tony Pranaitis

Music Notes ♪♪♪ Here's good news: we WILL perform our Holiday Har-

mony repertoire at the Denver Botanic Gardens "Blossoms of Light" on Tuesday, Dec. 26th! Received approval to-day. It's a great atmosphere with everyone in a festive mood...what a great way to share our Christmas music one final time on the day after Christmas.

We do need solid commitments for this and our other performances in December, especially from the singers in our quartets and in the various VLQ combinations.

On Tuesday we'll need confirmations from these groups for the EVENING show on Dec. 16th (at Colorado Chord Company). This is so they can plan their show and know which songs we can (or cannot) perform. Hopefully every one of us will support our fellow chorus members and our directors by being there. The other dates are:

Sunday, Dec 3 Westminster Elks 11:00 am (call time 10:00)

Tuesday, Dec 19 Children's Hospital 7:00 PM (call time 6:30)

Tuesday, Dec 26 Denver Botanic Gardens 6:00 pm (call time 5:30)

Lastly, I will be asking if the chorus will support a (paid) performance at Steve Jackson's community residence, Christopher House, at their annual Christmas party on Fri-day, Dec. 22nd at 2:00 pm.

Add in the two shows on Dec. 16th, and that sounds like a lot. It is! Please remember that two of those perfor-mances are on TUESDAYS when we'd be singing to our-selves anyway. Instead, we get to share the joy of the sea-son with hospital-bound kids and with festive families en-joying the amazing lights at the Botanic Gardens. Bring your wife and other family members to enjoy as well...they will get the "member admission rate."

We will have Dec. 16th tickets and show posters avail-able either this Tuesday or next. Tickets will also be avail-able on EventBrite. Time to spread the word about this great show. Remember, it's not just the wonderful show package our chorus and quartets have prepared. We have the Colorado Chord Company and their quartets. We have the Colorado School of Mines Madrigal Singers. Dr. Bob Klimek will lead an audience Sing-Along on the "mighty Wurlitzer" organ. We will also have the Golden-based Lutheran church Praise Ringers handbell ensem-ble.

We have an area Boy Scout troop that will prepare and serve refreshments at intermission (accepting donations). They will also patrol the parking lots, making sure the west lot is used ONLY by seniors and for bus drop-off. We will have a printed show program. We are supporting the Ar-vada High Vocal Music Department with scholarship funds to be used to send students to Summer Harmony Camp.

Arvada High is the largest auditorium we perform in, and our treasurer Alex Lunsford could easily put $3K into the bank after expenses, even $4K. Hopefully all of this will inspire all of us to sell tickets and sing well.

Society Code of Ethics

The Society aspires to preserve for its members and for all future generations of members the sacred right of men to seek haven from the burden of their daily cares through indulgence in old-fashioned vocal quartet harmony, and to that end we do hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to abide by the precepts of the Code of Ethics.

We shall do everything in our power to perpetuate the Society. We shall deport ourselves and conduct the Society’s functions in such manner as to reflect credit upon the Society and its membership. We shall conform in all aspects to the bylaws of the Society and the rules from time to time promulgated by its Society Board of Directors. We shall accept for membership only congenial men of good character who love harmony in music or have a desire to harmonize. We shall exhibit a spirit of good fellowship toward all members. We shall refrain from forcing our songs upon unsym-pathetic ears. We shall not use our membership for per-sonal gain. We shall not use our membership in the Society for personal gain. We shall not permit the introduction of political, reli-gious or other similar controversial issues into the affairs of the Society. We shall by our stimulus to good music and vocal harmony, endeavor to spread the spirit of harmony throughout the world. We shall render all possible altruistic service through the medium of barbershop harmony.


Maelstrom Kevin Meyer, Seth Fetzer

Wes Short, Tyler Wigginton Denver Mile High, Colo.

81.9%

Second Wind Joseph Hopkin, Adam Haggart

Matt Allen, Chaz Chesser Greater Phoenix, Ariz., Rexburg, Ida-

ho & Wasatch Front, Utah

77.9%

Switch Grant Goulding, Joel Gillespie

Kenny Wiser, Adam Scott Wasatch Front, Utah, Central Texas

Corridor, Texas & Frank Thorne

76.1%

Qualifies to compete at Orlando for the 2018 BHS Chorus Competition Sound of the Rockies, Mark Hale, director

Denver, Colo. 52eighty Youth Chorus (Mixed) Johnny Bugarin, director

Paige Sgrignoli pins 2017 BOTY Brett Foster

Qualifies to compete at Orlando for the 2018 BHS Quartet Competition

RMD Fall Convention

Tony Pranaitis

As a member of the Sound of the Rockies, the 2017 Fall Convention was a wonderful celebration of bar-bershop with all the rest of the Dis-trict. What a proud feeling of accom-plishment to achieve our second-highest District contest score ever (with a somewhat depleted represen-tation on the risers). Our director, Mark Hale, challenged us to earn a score "that started with a 9" and we did. We knew we had a formidable challenger in the Saltaires, who very likely earned an International-qualifying wild card score as well. We wanted to make a statement to the rest of the great choruses in the Bar-bershop Harmony Society.

We were also proud to have four chapter quartets in the top ten, with Maelstrom taking the trophy, which was presented to them by another SOR quartet as outgoing champs, The Pine.

As a chorus, we learned from the judges what we need to work on to improve, and that is the exciting chal-lenge set before us for the future. The key to getting better is to embrace those challenges and make it a per-sonal goal to become part of the im-provement. The more artistic our per-formance, the better we are able to touch hearts in our audience, which is why we engage in this art form. Of course, performing touches our own hearts, but the judges give us feed-back on what we did successfully and what we can do better to reach the audience.

The Zermatt Resort is a wonderful destination, with the only compromise being the performance venue. We know that scores would have been even higher in a theater with better acoustics, but there are learning ad-vantages to performing in less-than-favorable conditions (the International stage is notorious for being less-than-favorable).

You can enjoy the Sound of the Rockies holiday show in very favora-ble conditions at Gates Concert Hall (Denver University) on Dec. 8th and 9th. The chorus is singing 17 songs (our most ambitious undertaking ev-er) and it will be entertaining and in-spiring. I hope many Denver Moun-tainAires will attend and enjoy this show.

Visit www.SoundoftheRockies.com to purchase tickets online


President Bob Fox presents 2016 BOTY Award to long-time

Board member Brett Foster

President Bob Fox presents 2016 BOTY Award to long-time Board member Woody Woods

Paige Sgrignoli pins 2016 BOTY Woody Woods

Eventbrite blog profiles BHS

Our Customer Service team has plen-ty of experience with Eventbrite, and as a leading user for the product, the Barber-shop Harmony Society is providing a space for the platform to pilot new fea-tures while enhancing our own services to members at events. The Eventbrite team captures our story on their blog:

"After switching to Eventbrite's regis-tration system, the organization gained insight that enabled them to make smart-er decisions in the future. The Society's ability to customize the experience for attendees becomes even easier as their local chapters adopt the Eventbrite plat-form for their events.

The Society's ability to customize the experience for attendees becomes even easier as their local chapters adopt the Eventbrite platform for their events.We have 750 chapters in the United States and Canada. So far, 55 are using Event-brite's registration platform for their events." he says.

"Now we can see who's attending the local events and analyze the trends against other regions and the national attendee data. Once we onboard the oth-er chapters, we'll begin to realize how big our audience is and really make a differ-ence."'

We have 750 chapters in the United States and Canada. So far, 55 are using Eventbrite's registration platform for their events.' BHS Public Relations Manager, Brian Lynch reports. 'Now we can see who's attending the local events and ana-lyze the trends against other regions and the national attendee data. Once we onboard [more and more] chapters, we'll begin to realize how big our audience is and really make a difference.'"

All Chapter Chorus: Registration is open!

Join champion director Justin Miller for the All Chapter Chorus experience in Costa Mesa, CA at the 2018 BHS Midwin-ter Convention. This year's songs include:

I Told Them All About You Bluegrass Student Union I Heard You Singing Grandma’s Boys and Max Q Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat Chiefs Of Staff, Gas House Gang

2018 MIDWINTER CONVENTION January 16-21, 2018

Orange County, CA

Costa Mesa in beautiful Orange County, CA hosts the 2018 Midwinter Convention, with all events taking place in the incomparable Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, one of the most incredible concert halls in the country.

Join us for epic shows, incredible per-formances, classes from our world-class HU faculty, Marketplace and Membership exclusives, and all the singing you can handle!

Deadline for the Nov. Mountain Talk is

October 25th, thanks!


Heather and I are thrilled to an-nounce that our little "pumpkin" will be joining us in May. We couldn't be more excited to become parents.

Chris Kanapackis

Jerry Hooper The Grace Notes received a rather

unusual request recently to provide a sound track for a video celebrating the life of 101-year-old Bill Coors. He likes barbershop quartet music, and he specifi-cally requested "Del's quartet" as our tenor Del Miller had cut his hair for over

40 years at Del's Ton-sorial Parlor in Gold-en.

So the Grace Notes assembled at a record-ing studio at Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver,

and recorded "When You're Smiling," which is apparently a sort of theme song for Bill Coors. The recording studio was feeding our rendition to the Hollywood producer of the video, who was very par-ticular about the pace and timing. He wanted it at 108 beats per minute, and we were singing at about 120!

After a few tries, we finally achieved something they deemed satisfactory! The video is to be released sometime next spring at a party to celebrate Bill Coors' life.

Sunset Volcano north of Flagstaff. Lava flow behind us and volcano in the back-ground. — with Suzanne Sortman.

Havasu Falls with Vinny and Suzanne Sortman — the tributary to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.


Lee Van Deren

I am looking forward to driving to Arizona Monday to spending six months. No snow. I will be singing with the DesertAires chorus in Sun City West. The cho-rus membership is about 35 because snow birds are returning. In the summer the number is about 14. 115 degrees! Our Director is not paid and he also directs his wife’s Sweet Adeline Chorus. He is a committed barbershopper and a full time Realtor. I will be singing in the Christmas show.

Membership update Quartet Support Services Project

Our Membership team is excited to an-nounce the completion of Phase I of the Quartet Support Services Project, which began in May 2017. Our ultimate goal is to develop a robust set of resources that will encourage and assist in the formation and continued growth of quartets.

We enlisted the services of a volunteer project coordinator, Walt Lammert, who bar-bershops in the Southwestern District with the quartet Smooth Brew. After 624 quartets (some registered, some not) responded to our short survey, Walt targeted a smaller group for more in-depth surveys and email conversations. With all that feedback, the team (Walt, two peer reviewers, the quar-tets, Harmony Hall marketing and website folks, and others) produced a 40-page docu-ment, which was published as a series of web pages on the BHS web site.

In this format, groups can target just what they need and access the information in smaller secions, while still giving it a spe-cific home. This method also lends itself to easier updating and improvement via addi-tional content, enhancements, and supple-mental resources. The Guidebook for Per-forming Quartets can be found here:

barbershop.org/quartets/guidebook/

Denver MountainAires Chorus & Quartets

proudly presents our annual

“Holiday Harmony”

Saturday, Dec. 16th — 2:00 pm

Arvada High, 7951 W. 65th Ave., Arvada, Colo. 80004

Denver MountainAires & Colorado Chord Company

Colorado School of Mines Madrigal Singers

Faith Lutheran Praise Ringers handbell ensemble

Audience Sing-Along with the "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ

Tickets

$15 at the door $10 in advance $8 groups of 10+ $5 under age 12 $25 family (two adults and all the kids)

For tickets or info, call Tony Pranaitis at 303 233-6234

Senior Ride Available

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BARBERSHOP HARMONYBARBERSHOP HARMONY SINGERS WANTED!SINGERS WANTED!

Come join us Tuesdays!Come join us Tuesdays!

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Gates Concert Hall Newman Center For the Performing Arts at Denver University 2344 E Iliff Ave, Denver CO 80210 Friday, Dec 9 - 7:30 pm Saturday, Dec 9 - 2:00 pm Saturday, Dec 9 - 7:30 pm

BUY TICKETS NOW Newman Center Box Office

Sound of the RockiesSound of the Rockies Annual Christmas Show

Meet our Guest Performers

Maelstrom - RMD Quartet Champs

Rick Crandall Our Beloved MC

“Oh nothing much, I just missed the bulletin deadline again!”

GRAY GIAN PAUL DOYLE

Fastlane (w/Mile High) Paul Dover 303 471-2225 [email protected] Doyle Cline, Paul Dover

Gray Jackson, Gian Porro

JERRY BOB JOE DEL

Grace Notes Jerry Hooper 303 278-1762

[email protected] Del Miller, Joe Gibson

Bob Dickman, Jerry Hooper

TONY DAMIAN CHRIS DAVE

UltraSoniX Damian Berger 720 962-6527 dami-

[email protected] Dave Myers, Chris Kanapackis Tony Pranaitis, Damian Berger

AL CAROL NANCY TONY

Joyful Noise Tony Pranaitis 303 233-6234 TonyChi-

[email protected] Carol Shouldice, Nancy Pranaitis

Tony Pranaitis, Al Klinger

DOUG VINNY JEFF ROBBIE

The New Notes Jeff Maen 303 718-3236

[email protected] Doug Kulesa, Vinny Sortman Jeff Maen, Robbie Robertson

Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season Arr. Adam Scott

A fun, swingin’ chart for your holiday show, Adam Scott delivers a crowd-pleasing arrangement based on the origi-nal Andy Williams recording that paired these two holiday favorites together. Ac-cessible for almost any level ensemble, this chart works great as a show opener or closer.

Men's Sheet Music Men's Learning Tracks Women's Sheet Music Mixed Sheet Music Difficulty 3


Member Center: Privacy options added!

The Society takes seriously its re-sponsibility to securely protect the per-sonal information of its Members, Associ-ates, and customers. At the same time, we recognize that being connected to one another is one of the primary reasons that the Society exists in the first place -- to be a means of finding more ways and more people to fully share the barbershop life-style.

Members and Associates now have the ability to change their specific privacy options by opting-in and opting-out of which information on your member profile can be seen by other Members or Associ-ates.

Rex Abelein [email protected]

Damian Berger [email protected]

Paul Bonnstetter [email protected]

Keith Bovee [email protected]

Dick Cable [email protected]

Eric DeGraff [email protected]

Robert Dickman [email protected]

Paul Dover [email protected]

Jonathan Dreger [email protected]

Sam Edward [email protected]

Dick Gearke [email protected]

Joe Gibson [email protected]

Howie Hebert [email protected]

Joe Hildebrand [email protected]

Jerry Hooper [email protected]

Steven Jackson [email protected]

Bob Kaes [email protected]

Christopher Kanapackis [email protected]

Al Klinger [email protected]

Douglas Kulesa [email protected] Alexander Lunsford [email protected]

Jeffrey Maen [email protected]

John Manion [email protected]

Glen McLaughlin [email protected]

Zach Mentzer [email protected]

Del Miller NO EMAIL

Ken Miller [email protected]

John Murphy [email protected]

Pete Peterson [email protected]

Richard Phillips [email protected]

Tony Pranaitis [email protected]

Robbie Robertson [email protected]

Glen Schmidt [email protected]

Jerry Scott [email protected]

Pat Smith [email protected]

Vinny Sortman [email protected]

Lee Van Deren [email protected]

Robert Warren [email protected]

Al White [email protected]

Chris Williams [email protected]

2017 Chapter Leadership Team2017 Chapter Leadership Team

Program VP Jeff Maen

PR & Marketing VP Al Klinger

Membership VP Dog Kulesa

Youth In Harmony VP Tony Pranaitis

Member at Large Joe Gibson

President Bob Kaes

Secretary Ken Miller

Imm. P. President Jon Dreger

Treasurer Alex Lunsford

Music VP Tony Pranaitis

Current member email addresses – 39 40 members as of July 1, 2017 Director Chelsea Asmus: [email protected]

Editor Steve Jackson

Chorus Director Chelsea Asmus

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