Saturday, July 3, 2010

Convention Extra-3

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Twenty-seven Choruses, One Is Golden

The chorus competition wrapped up at about 10:00 on Friday night. The variety of costumes, themes and the wonderful singing made for a great, but lengthy day of barbershop entertainment. The top five finishers are listed below with their total scores (out of a possible 3,000).

Gold-The Westminster Chorus: 2932
Silver-The Vocal Majority: 2913
Bronze(3)-The Northern Lights: 2822
Bronze(4)-Sound of The Rockies: 2769
Bronze(5)-Alexandria Harmonizers: 2680

As before, the complete score sheets for all the choruses are available online at BHS Home.

Note: The Alliance (JAD) finished 6th with a score of 2671. They were the final chorus to sing on Friday and received a standing ovation after their second number. Congratulations to The Alliance for an outstanding performance and for representing our District so well on the international level.

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Mega Sing

At 12:30 on Saturday afternoon, over 1,000 barbershoppers (by my unofficial estimate) gathered near Independence Hall to sing. We did several PoleCats plus "Hello Mary Lou"and "God Bless America". The mass chorus was ably directed by Rick Spencer from his perch in the "bucket" of one of Philadelphia's fire trucks. The truck was provided at no charge by the city fire department. The Fire Chief even joined Rick and directed us in The Star Spangled Banner. As often happens, we concluded our singing with "Keep The Whole World Singing".





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Derbytowners Enjoy Philadelphia

The picture below shows Ken and Sue Spencer and Robin and Carole Reid as they enjoy the sights, sounds and tasty foods at the Reading Market, which was conveniently located across the street from the Convention Center. The Market Building was once used by The Reading Railroad.