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President...
"YOU'VE GOT TO ACCENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE AND ELIMINATE THE
NEGATIVE"
Just what does that mean according to Wikipe-dia? In 1944 the song was written by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Mercer heard it spoken by a preacher in the style of a sermon explained that "accentuating the positive is the key to hap-piness & eliminate the negative"
What I get out of that is when we're at Rehearsal on Tuesday's or at home "rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing" our music we should pull out every-thing a song provides us in the lyrics and sing it the way the Lyrist intended it to sound like; with feeling, emotion and "color"....ACCENT THE POSITIVE. I’ll bet there isn't one song the chorus has sung over the years that didn't have some negatives in it.....I can only think of one song with no nega-tives..........."STEPPIN OUT" LOL
Negatives are there in everything if we let them be there. And the thing about negatives is that if we work and focus on them long enough, they turn into a positive.
We prove that every year when we perform at our Annual Show at the Sundial which was evident by the response we received from our great audi-ence.
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2017 Officers &
Directors
Dave Starcevich President
Bill Shaw VP Music
Gene Brandwein Secretary
Bob Thompson Treasurer
Bob Taylor VP Programming
Ron Sonnenleiter VP Chapter Dev.
Jack McGill VP Marketing
Bob Geinosky VP Communications
Grant Fox 2017 Dir at Large
Bud Hesterman 2018 Dir at Large
Duke Jensen 2019 Dir at Large
Larry Says: Connect Your Words
Bi-Monthly Newsletter
2016 Plateau A Champions
April 2017
Issue 5
In The Air (es)
Bill Says:
Stay on Top of The Pitch
Dave Says:
Follow The Tempo
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Newsletter Editor
Bob Geinosky
Send articles to Bob Taylor [email protected]
Suggestions? Complaints?
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YOU, the chorus made it happen but it hap-pened because of the positive attitude we took with us that day and especially because of all the hard work by our Co-Directors Bill Shaw & Dave Moses and Larry Campbell.
Thank You to each and everyone of you. Re-member, it's never to early to start rehearsing for our 2018 show. (it would be nice to have the music?????)
Dave Starcevich - Your Humble President
Charlie: What do you call a baritone with half a brain?
Sam: Gifted.
To those with birthdays in April
& May, Happy Birthday
Although the Desert Aires does not have anyone even close to Clare
McCreary’s age. We do have some with the same enthusiasm.
What does “Happy at 100″
look like? Clare McCreary
tells you! – A Baritone On
YouTube https://youtu.be/GE88v77-WR4
Click on this link or copy and paste or go to DesertAires.net
and click on YouTube on the Member’s Home Page
Sing with Feeling ! ! The Tenor-Lead
Clef which is
sung one octave
lower than writ-
ten.
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2017 International Competition July 2-9 2017
2-18 Annual Show TBA
2017 Christmas Show TBA
2017 Arizona Convention April 21, 2017
Scheduled Events
Barbershop Harmony
Society
Planet Hollywood
International Contest
July 2 –9, 2017
AZ Division Convention
MESA HIGH SCHOOL
April 21. 2017 1630 E Southern Ave • Mesa, AZ 85204
Harmony Platoon • Arizona Division Chorus & Quartet Contests and District Prelims • Show of Champions • Afterglow • Hospitality Rooms
Ralph: How do you know when a lead is at your door?
George: He can't find his key.
Look for the new Music Charts on the website’s
Member Home Page-Music Charts
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How many of you know it’s History
The Black keys on the Piano..
At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps de-
livers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amaz-
ing Grace ever recorded. He says, "A lot of people don't realize that just
about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano.
Slaves were not permitted to use the white keys. Probably the most famous
on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who used to be the captain
of a slave ship, and many believe he heard this melody that sounds very
much like a West African sorrow chant. And it has a haunting, haunting
plaintive quality to it that reaches past your arrogance, past your pride,
and it speaks to that part of you that's in bondage. And we feel it. We feel
it. It's just one of the most amazing melodies in all of human history."
After sharing the noteworthy history of the song, Mr. Phipps delivers a stir-
ring performance that brings the audience to its feet!
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1312 (Try holding down the “Cntl” key
and clicking on the link) Editor note: Also called the Petatonic Scale of which there are
five variations.
Contributed by Bud Hesterman & Bob McGowen
Be Proud - Great Job
