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Published quarterly by the Rocky Mountain District Association of Chapters

Colorado Idaho Kansas Montana Nebraska New Mexico South Dakota Utah Wyoming

Vol. 38, No. 4 4th Quarter 2017

Proud members of PROBE

www.RMDsing.org Barbershop Harmony Society

Classic Collection, 1982 International Quartet Champions

Storm Front, 2010

2016 RMD Barbershopper of the Year

Woody Woods, Colorado Springs, CO

Bass, Baritone, Lead or Tenor:

Harmony Foundation International (HFI) has undergone many changes within the last couple of years and the need to support the programs of Barbershop Har-mony Society (BHS) continue to increase. The demand to participate in these singing programs for all ages is great, yet some do not have means to join us. As we approach the end of HFI's fis-cal year on September 30, we are making a final push to increase funding in support of these important initiatives. If you are cur-rently a donor to HFI, THANK YOU! Your contributions make all the difference. If you have donated in the past, but not this fiscal year, please consider renewing your support by 9/30.

If you have never made a gift to HFI, we hope that you will consider one prior to 9/30 to add your name in support of SING-ING. In addition to supporting vital BHS programs, your gift will also qualify for the Mitchell challenge, meaning you double your impact dollar for dollar.

Perry White, President & CEO, Harmony Foundation International It is with a heavy heart that I leave

my duties as RMD editor, effective January 1. Lifestyle and health is-sues have led to my decision to retire as your editor after doing this publi-cation, on and off, for about 25 years. I volunteered at the request of RMD President Rex Touslee (at the 1982 Mountain Glow) to edit the New Harmony Horizons, then re-sumed the Vocal Expressions in late ‘80’s. I’m very proud of my ef-forts and cherish the many memo-ries gathered along the way and the MANY barbershoppers that I have be-come friends with in my journey through the RMD. I still hope to do the Denver MountainAires bulletin Mountain Talk. It’s been an awe-some ride. Thanks, RMD and the BHS.

Steve Jackson, editor

2017 RMD Barbershopper of the Year Brett Foster, Billings, MT

BOARD OF DIRECTORSBOARD OF DIRECTORS

Exec. Vice President

Pasco Scarpella [email protected]

Immediate Past President

John Elving [email protected]

Treasurer

David Fischer [email protected]

Secretary

Tony Pranaitis [email protected]

President

Bob Fox [email protected]

Chorus Director Development

Johnny Bugarin [email protected]

RMD Vision Statement — Enriching lives in the Rocky Mountain District through singing in

OPERATIONS TEAM (VP’S)OPERATIONS TEAM (VP’S)

Music

Stevie Dugdale [email protected]

Youth In Harmony

Tony Sparks [email protected]

Financial Development

Neil Ridenour [email protected]

Membership

Lee Taylor [email protected]

Webmaster George Davidson

[email protected]

Contest and Judging

John Coffin [email protected]

Chapter Support & Leadership Training

Brett Foster [email protected]

Events

Dallin Hill [email protected]

Marketing & PR

Al Klinger [email protected]

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Albuquerque Journal

Sent by Gil Whalen New Mexi‐Chords Albuquerque, NM

Michael Clarence Taylor, age 80, passed away on Wednes‐

day, Oct. 11, 2017, surrounded by his family. He was born on July 22, 1937 in Lu in, Texas to Ma hew Clarence ("Zack") & Bonnie Nell (Crumpler) Taylor. He fell in love with Eunice Earlene (Nikki) Hancock and married her on December 6, 1957. Together, Mike and Nikki had four children.

Music was one of Mike's biggest passions. He was ac ve for over 30 yrs. with the New MexiChords Barbershop Chorus, where he made lifelong friendships.

He is survived by his brother Gary, sons Michael Glenn (Susan), Marcus Neill, and daughter Melanie Paige (David) Sum‐mers, nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mike was preceded in death by Nikki, his wife of 49 years, his parents Zack and Bonnie, brother J, and daughter Marie Elizabeth (s llborn in 1965).

Mike will be remembered for his engaging smile, as a lover of music and books, and by his many friends and family. A memori‐al service was held Sat., Oct. 21, 2017 at 10 a.m. at Hoffmantown Church in Albuquerque, N.M.

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All four quarterly issues will be posted online @

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Michael Clarence Taylor July 22, 1937 to October 11, 2017

My chorus, North Front Sound, just submitted our pa-perwork last week to license with the society. We'll be mic testing at the chorus contest in Midway, hopefully as the newest chapter in the district.

I'd love to let people know that I produce learning tracks. I'm the only RMD guy I know of listed on the society learning tracks page.

http://www.onqtracks.com/

Scott Anderson

Brett Foster Oct. 10, 2017 on Facebook

I got to practice judge my first contest over the weekend with a couple other judge candidates, Jamie R. Bedford and Johnny Bugarin, in Midway, Utah. It was quite a weekend to remember in the Rocky Mountain District with 22 quartets and nine choruses. Great weekend!

Jamie Johnny Brett

Switch - 76.1% Grant Goulding, Joel Gillespie

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

Corridor, TX & Frank Thorne

Qualified for the Senior Contest at Midwinter — RMD’s Sugar House (Utah).

Maelstrom - 81.9% Kevin Meyer, Seth Fetzer

Wes Short, Tyler Wigginton Denver Mile High CO

Second Wind - 77.9% Joseph Hopkin, Adam Haggart

Matt Allen, Chaz Chesser Greater Phoenix, AZ, Rexburg, ID

& Wasatch Front, UT

Sound of the Rockies qualifies to compete in Orlando for 2018 BHS Chorus competition

RMD Qualifies Three Quartets to Compete at International for the First Time

— Maelstrom, Second Wind, and Switch — Sound of the Rockies qualifies, Saltaires earn wild-card


Wasatch Front, Utah — THE SALTAIRES — John Sasine, Director

Complete results and scoresheets can be found on the RMD webpage

at www.RMDsing.org

I produce learning tracks. I'm the only RMD guy I know of listed on the BHS learning tracks page. http://www.onqtracks.com/

Sco Anderson

North Front Sound submitted paper-work to license with the society. They were

the mic testers for the chorus contest at Midway, Utah. Qualified for the Senior Contest at

Midwinter — Continuum (Denver Mile High)


Congratulations to the two newest RMD Barbershoppers of the Year! At the recent Fall Convention 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 Brett Foster, 2017.

In case you haven’t had the pleasure of knowing either, or both of these great men, here is a little about them. Woody Woods, has served the district in numerous ways over the years. He has been the Vice President of Marketing & PR, the VP

for Chorus Director Development, been the district webmaster, editor of the Vocal Expressions, Executive Vice President, District President and Immediate Past President. He is a Chorus Director with the Colorado Springs Metro Chapter. Within the Society itself, he is a certified Outstanding In Front (OIF) trainer, a PROBE Bulletin Judge, and a Contest Administrator, where he currently serves as the category specialist. Those who know Woody know that he is an avid quartet singer. He is also a proud member of AHSOW, willing to woodshed anytime and anywhere.

Brett Foster has served for many years as the Vice President of Chapter Support and Leadership Training (CSLT). In that capacity,

he has overseen the development of the Leadership Academies, and now COTS Plus (Chapter Operations Training Seminar). One ongoing program he has worked with is the Chapter Activity Recognition Award (CARA) by which chapters can judge their overall health. Within the last couple of years, Brett has founded the newest chartered chapter within the RMD, the Yellowstone Valley Chapter and Treasure State Chorus, where he currently serves as President. He is also an avid quartetter. Just this year Brett qualified as a Candidate Judge as a Contest Administrator, using his new skills for the first time in this year’s Fall Contest.

Whenever you see these two fine gentlemen, please congratulate them on the honor they have just received.

President Box Fox presents the Barbershopper Of The Year

award to Woody Woods

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2007 Rocky Mountain District Quartet Champions2007 Rocky Mountain District Quartet Champions


Brett Foster Treasure State Sound Facebook, Nov. 15th

So much fun! The Treasure State Sound and Check-pointe! singing in a packed house tonight at the AA Music Festival. An awesome experience!

Paul Dover

Fastlane was honored to be able to sing at the “9 Cares Colorado Shares” donation drive today, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2017.

Seen on Facebook Nov. 18

Richard Blaine Lambert, 77, of Wesley Chapel passed away November 7, 2017 at Tampa General Hospital. He was born August 14, 1940 in Minot, N.D. Richard graduated from University of Minnesota with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and received his Masters in Electri-cal Engineering from San Jose State University. His first job was working at Lockheed's Space Division, in Silicone Valley Calif. He always had a passion for space and flying.

He received his private pilots license in the 70s and his great-est pleasure was flying over the Bay Area and the Golden Gate Bridge. Richard married his love, Lola, and they resided in Cali-fornia, where he enjoyed camping throughout the state and boat-ing on Folsom Lake. They moved to Albuquerque, N.M. and found his other true love, green chili! He looked forward each October to witness the hot air balloons flying over his back yard. His hobbies included remote control airplanes, Barbershop cho-rus (the Albuquerque New MexiChords), World War 2 and the Civil War, as well as football. He loved his 49ers.

He is survived by, his wife Lola of 52 years: 2 daughters, Stacy Mote (Damon Mote) and Kristin Nebiolini (Ernie Nebio-lini); two grandchildren, Ian Mote and Corinne Lykins, and one sister, Carole Cameron.

Memorial Services were held at Atonement Lutheran Church Wesley Chapel on November 11, 2017. In lieu of flowers, please offer donations to the Helping Hands Food Pantry at Atonement Lutheran Church. 29617 State Road 54 Wesley Chapel Florida 33543.

Former Mew MexiChords editor Dick Lambert passes away

"How you can make sure your Youth Chorus Festival Spon-sorship donation gets into the right hands" ...

Neil Ridenour RMD Operations Team Financial Development

After our email, sent out a few days ago, with Bob Fox's

"every member" appeal to support RMD's commitment for the Youth Chorus Festival Sponsorship, Neil has had many inquiries as to "How do we make our donations?" Neil has submitted four easy options as follows:

Youth Chorus Festival Sponsorship – RMD

1. Chapter Donations – While this is an individual member

appeal, we also encourage chapters to participate if your board agrees. Make check out to Harmony Foundation and write RMD YCFS in the memo line. Bring to our Fall Convention next month and have your HOD representative provide to Neil Ridenour at the HOD meeting.

2. Individual’s Checks – Recommend they are collected at the chapter level, made out to Harmony Foundation and write RMD YCFS in the memo line.

a. Alternatively, if written to the chapter, the chapter can add this to their one check for this campaign.

b. Or, if preferred, they may be snail mailed (soon!) directly to Neil Ridenour for presentation at the Fall Convention. But, be sure they’re made out to Harmony Foundation and write RMD YCFS in the memo line. Be sure to include a note as to chapter affiliation with the check, example: CS Pikes Peak S-002.

Neil’s address is 8165 Brigantine Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920-4405.

3. Cash – please collect at the chapter level, and follow steps in item 1 above.

4. Credit / Debit Card – Recommend the individual go to http://harmonyfoundation.org/ways-to-give/give-today/ and:

a. Select Single Gift b. In Designation area, select Other, do not select Unrestrict-

ed. c. In Designation area, enter in Comment box: "RMD YCFS" d. Complete all other necessary entries and submit; be sure

to retain your email receipt.


Ken Potter Director, Northwest Sound

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 musically. For within the breathe, there is musical life. And when you can breathe musically without thinking, you shall eliminate all distractions from your musicianship. Breathe because you wish to add life to the music. It requires much deeper thought.

Doug Arrington is recognized as Judge Emeritus for the Barbershop Harmony Society at the November 21 rehearsal.

From the New MexiChords weekly Que Pasa, Nov. 24,

editor George Franklin

Albuquerque’s Doug Arrington honored with Judge Emeritus status

Sent our way by John Chase, Pueblo President/director via Tony Pranaitis

Arkansas River Chorus Makes Impact in Pueblo By Wil Meiklejohn

Christmas Program Show Chairman

On a bright early December afternoon, the nine singers of the Arkansas River Chorus shared our “Christmas Gift to the Community.” For an hour we provided a program of music and a “Great Escape” from all the chaos and nega-tivity that saturates our senses nearly everywhere we turn.

Barbershop Christmas music was sung, seasonal se-lections provided by connections within our group, several members of nearby chapters shared their talents and the audience of nearly 100 people joined with us singing famil-iar Christmas carols. Volunteers served light refreshments following the show and tirelessly worked to assure that a very positive experience was in place. In addition, financial support from a number of patrons ($1,045), an offering taken at the program ($242.80), plus an anonymous matching gift, will enable us to share over $2,575 with local charitable organizations in order to help them provide food, gifts and outreach to those who otherwise might not enjoy a merry Christmas.

We realize how truly fortunate we are and celebrate the opportunity to give to our neighbors. It is, indeed, “more blessed to give than to receive.” Our hope is that we all may live in harmony and “let every heart prepare Him room.” Dear brothers in song, thank you for all your time, effort, energy, commitment, and love to make this come together and bring “Joy to the World.”

On July 1st, David F. Corley of the Pikes Peak chap-ter (S-002) in Colorado Springs, Colo., passed on. Dave was a 56-year member of the Society, a member of the Pikes Peak chapter for the last 18 years, and will be sorely missed. For many in our chapter, Dave was always upbeat, friendly and just a joy to know.

Dave’s legacy with the society is his love of singing and wanting to share that love with others through his di-recting of several choruses. He directed choruses in both Northern and Southern California and in Colorado. These included Downey, Pasadena, and Walnut Creek, Califor-nia, along with Colorado Springs. He also directed several Sweet Adeline choruses in California, including for North-ern Orange County and Diablo Vista (Walnut Creek).

Dave was a songwriter and arranger with at least one of his original songs copyrighted: the Rose Parade March © 1974 for the Pasadena Queens Show. In addition, Dave coached quartets, both men’s and women’s, and served the entire barbershop community as a judge in the Vocal Per-formance category. He also performed in at least three pro-ductions of The Music Man in California and four times in a musical version of Scrooge in Colorado.

For the last four years, Dave formed a mixed-voice chorus, 26 persons this past year, at the RV park in Ari-zona where he “snowbirded” during the winter. This group put on performances in January, February, and March and each show had different music from arrang-ers such as Rogers and Ham-merstein, Irving Berlin, Je-

rome Kern and George Gershwin. He worked those folks hard, but with great humor and love and they always had a full house for their performances. Plus, during the local talent shows, he and his spouse Naomi performed song and dance routines from musicals like Easter Parade and Royal Wedding, and they had a great response from the audience for their singing and comedy.

Dave Corley was a modest man who never put himself forward for recognition, but he literally touched thousands of lives through his love of singing. Many people are bet-ter singers because he spent time with them on improving their skills and lending a helping hand whenever it was needed. Dave was a great example of what each of us should strive to become as a barbershopper, both within our Society and in our interactions with our communities, wherever we may be, at any stage of life.

The Pikes Peak chapter, several chapters in California and the entire Barbershop Harmony Society are greatly diminished by his loss. However, we and many other bar-bershoppers are forever thankful for Dave’s interest in making us all better singers and his love of life that he shared with us through singing.


Oops, this editor overlooked two articles sent our way for the 3rd quarter VE by Neil Ridenour, Pikes Peak chapter, Colo. Springs, Colo. Our apologies — my health and recently-forced relocation are my only ex-cuse. Many thanks to Neil for being persistent in “getting the word out!”

2010 International Quartet Champions

[email protected] Contact Syd Lybsack for all performance requests

America the Beautiful Chorus Spring Show

June 10, 2017 by Jim Campbell

The America the Beautiful Cho-rus of the Colorado Springs Pikes Peak Chapter presented their Spring Show, “If I Could Write a Song,” on June 10 at the Sunrise Methodist Church in Colorado Springs. In addi-tion to performances by the chorus and two of the ATB quartets, Velcro and Odd Man Out, the show was memorable for the young people who were guest performers and really wowed the audience.

Our Special Guest Quartet was Vintage Mix, a mixed quartet made up of 16-year-old quadruplets from the Milwaukee, Wis. area. Fresh from an April appearance on Fox and Friends, and an earlier 2017 perfor-mance at the BHS Midwinter Conven-tion in San Antonio, Kelsey, Anika, Julia, and Ian performed a set of aca-pella tunes that included both Barber-shop and other styles. Their rendition of “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” was a real crowd-pleaser in particular. They have been singing together since the fourth grade, but only began perform-ing Barbershop style about two years ago. They are one of the first quartets registered in the Mixed Barbershop Harmony Association.

Check out their website at www.vintagemixquartet.com

The ATB Chorus also welcomed

another youth quartet, Straight Up, to the stage. These four teenagers from different schools are all mem-bers of the Summit Ensemble of the Colorado Springs Childrens’ Chorale. Hunter, Hayden, D’Ante, and Sean brought the audience to their feet with a performance of a work song, “Tsotsholoza” (pronounced Show-Show-LOW-Zah), a song that is sung by miners working in the gold and diamond mines of South Africa.

Velcro, who recently appeared as the members of the River City School Board in a concert performance of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man at Mesa Ridge High School in Fountain, Colorado, also brought a special guest. Naomi Mullins, a junior at Me-sa Ridge who played Marian the Li-brarian in that production, joined Vel-cro for a performance of “Lida Rose.”

The members of the America the Beautiful Chorus were thrilled to appear on stage with such a talented group of young people, who are proof positive that Barbershop singing real-ly brings generations and communi-ties together.


WE MADE THE HARMONIZER!

Adam Haggart

Second Wind Facebook, Nov. 15th

On Dec. 1 and 2 we were the teaching quartet and headliners for the Craig A Cappella Workshop! We went up to Craig, Colo., almost exactly halfway be-tween Salt Lake and Denver. We were super excited to go teach some great kiddos about barbershop and acappella



Harmony Foundation

DOUBLE or TRIPLE YOUR IMPACT Donation Match Dollar for Dollar

Mitchell Family Challenge: For every dollar raised in new, current

donations, the gracious Mitchell family is willing to match up to $100,000! This is a time sensitive challenge, so if you have ever considered a gift to HFI, act quickly to double the impact of your investment.

Corporate Funds: Many companies have charitable gift matching programs

available to encourage philanthropy by their employees. Ask your employer about its interest in matching your gift to increase your impact.

Here is an early alert from Montrose President and Silverton SBHMF chairman, Larry Cooper, about the 2018 event so that all RMD Chapters will be current on information.

As you may know, the RMD attendance in Silverton last year was trending downward and Coop has some great ideas about how to build the numbers up to previous years. Part of his strategy is to increase the information out to all RMD Chapters earlier than in the past. Another is to schedule some serious coaching for all day Friday as well as Saturday. This is in the thinking process at this time.

To help increase the attendance, we are counting on you guys to get the ‘word out’ to our RMD Chapters so that every-one is aware of this historical gathering of barbershoppers in a beautiful Colorado mountain town to experience excellent coaching and fun performing.

If there is ONE guy we should contact with information, please let us know who he is so there is no confusing duplica-tion of efforts. Here is the early news for the 2018 Silverton Barbershop Harmony Festival (SBHMF).

It is scheduled for the first weekend in August, August 3 and 4. Tony Sparks, the mass chorus director for 2017 will return as our 2018 chorus director. More news and information will fol-low as soon as it is available. Thanks for your help.

Bill Sutton, [email protected] Communications VP

Our director, Amy Barrett, has indicated interest in the Durango barbershop chorus performing in Sil-verton (the annual Festival held late summer) this year. We always have some (most) of our members attending.

The Durango chapter is having their 50th annual show on June 9, 2018. We'll have two guest quartets, Blue Steele and Storm Front!

Ed Simons 970-426-9094

Silverton Festival 2018 Alert


Aquapella

This one turned out awe-some! The back of the pipe in the decorative section is almost hypnotic. The owner was very pleased from what I hear! It was also a magnet-ic pipe!

Far Western District, BHS

Gordon Berghold is the President who will soon be passing the mantle to a new guy. His FWD mates got this sweet PhlyPipe for him as a keepsake. Making pipes that become keepsakes to honor times of service or achieve-ments within our art form are some of my (Curtis Terry) favorites! Enjoy Gordon!

The Many Ways to Support Harmony Foundation International

President's Council — Donors are invited to accelerate our progress toward the future by making individual gifts of $1,000 and higher ($83.33 per month), or quartet gifts of $4,000 and higher. Ambassadors of Song — Donors can arrange for automatic monthly deductions at any level, starting at just $10 per month ($120 per year). It’s easy to begin investing in the future of singing. Key Voices — Just as Every Voice Matters, so does every donation no matter how large or large at heart. One time annual gifts $1 - $119 add up with other like gifts from across the world to contribute to the overall impact. Keep A Melody Ringing — Dedicate your gift to the loving memory of a passed Barbershopper or supporter and we will dedi-cate a nameplate to be forever honored within Harmony Hall. Legacy of Harmony — Proactive planning to designate funds to loved ones and organizations you love also provides a gift called peace of mind. Our Legacy of Harmony program helps you meet your goals for your loved ones while also supporting HFI through a gift from your will, retirement plan or life insurance policy. Binding commitments qualify for a 1:10 match with current dollars, allowing you to make a difference both today and tomorrow!

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