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by PATRICK BABCOCK
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
In between the one-liners, chicken costumes and ventriloquist’s dummy impressions; there was room for some singing at the 27th Annual Barbershop Show.
The show was held at the Rosen Concert Hall of Broyhill Music Center at Appalachian State University Sept. 20.
“It’s four-part barbershop style, so it’s not really contemporary,” junior communication disorders major Megan A. Frenia said.
 The 27th Annual Barbershop Quartet and Chorus Show performs in the Rosen Concert Hall with a series of 1940s radio-era skits and songs by Triad Harmony Express, a Winston-Salem based chorus company. The live dummy ventriloquism was a hit with the Boone community audience. Photo by Martin Stamat
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Frenia sings with Treble Attraction, one of the groups that performed during the show.
The show began with a 1940s radio show-themed performance by Triad Harmony Express, a chorus from Winston-Salem.
The
group has been the featured chorus for all 27 years of the show, and
this performance included a bag-of-tricks comedian and a gender-bending
comedy reading about an arguing married couple.
Erica M.
Adelman, elementary education and history major and Treble Attraction
singer believed the audience played an important role in the
performance.
“The audience seemed to be very involved and enjoying it, and so that’s always fun,” Adelman said.
The
singing itself centered on barbershop swing tunes, and also included a
handful of quartet-style performances of radio commercial jingles and a
rendition of the theme of “The Lone Ranger.”
After the Triad Harmony Express finished, Treble Attraction, a student female a capella group from Appalachian performed.
The
group entered as a quartet and performed the Harold Arlen classic “Over
the Rainbow,” before inviting two other members onstage to round out
the performance with The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends”
and the spiritual classic “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.”
After an
intermission, the student barbershop quartet High Country Post
performed two songs of their own, including a version of “Shenandoah.”
The night closed with the headlining Max Q, the Barbershop Harmony Society’s 2007 International Quartet Champions.
“You
know, it’s really a dream come true for us,” High Country Post singer
Matthew C. McNeely said of sharing the stage with Max Q. “[They] are
just phenomenal, phenomenal musicians.”
The quartet’s ringleader Tony DeRosa entertained crowds with his various interactions between the four singers’ performances.
“The
college quartet right before us, I thought they did an awesome job,”
DeRosa said. “…And we heard the girls before them, and they did a nice
job, too, so it was great to hear.”
After one stunning performance after another, the quartet received an overwhelming standing ovation from the audience.
“[The
show] was all very, very good,” freshman music education major and
Treble Attraction singer Heather M. Worth said. “I look forward to
being able to see things like this a lot in the near future.”
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