Useful Links Are At The End Of This Message
Welcome to August! Now is a good time to polish your final preparations. Make it to at least one run-through or sing with your sponsor. If you don't live locally to other singers, make a video-chat appointment with someone on your part and sing for them, and let them check you.
As always - if you need help, ask for it! Everyone wants everyone else to succeed, together.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
- People who are driving to Brigade - please volunteer to make an airport run for people flying in.
- For people who are flying - links at the bottom of each message will help you find a ride to/from the airport.
- Some parts of the rally are in danger, without your volunteer help.
- Thursday night dinner organization
- Friday singouts
- The Rooming form is coming soon - when it becomes available please fill it out promptly.
- Daniel recently sent out a list of open Board positions - 2019 Needs You!
General Schedule For The Rally
The schedule's highlights in broad outline:
Friday:
- Afternoon arrival
- Checkers pass the checking process
- All attendees pass the checking process
- Dinner and quartet contest assignment
- Quartet competition
- Sing until you want to sleep.
Saturday:
- Breakfast
- General meeting and a members-only meeting
- Singing for fun (finish checking)
- Lunch
- Chorus rehearsal
- Singing for fun
- Dinner
- Big show
- Quartet competition and results
- Sing until you can't sing any more
Sunday:
- Breakfast
- Closing meeting
- If you can still sing, sing until the hotel makes you leave. :-)
The Quartet Contest
If this is your first Harmony Brigade Rally, you may not know how the quartet contest works. Even if it is NOT your first rally - did you know you have song options? Read on!
Caveat: This competition is not about winning, this is about fun. It's also about your skill in making your quartet sing to its potential. Only one quartet will win: but every quartet can be glad it sang together. Be the person other people WANT to sing with.
After Friday night dinner, every attendee will be assigned to a random quartet (sometimes to two quartets, if our parts don't evenly balance). Each quartet will be randomly assigned 1 of the 12 songs. Each quartet will have to quickly choose a name for itself. (It's good to come with an idea or two.)
There will be a short period of time before the show to rehearse. (For quartets sharing a singer, you will be a trio for some of that time.) Get together and sing! See my advice from earlier this summer on that rehearsal time. (Maybe even print and bring it with you.)
There will be a short period of time before the show to rehearse. (For quartets sharing a singer, you will be a trio for some of that time.) Get together and sing! See my advice from earlier this summer on that rehearsal time. (Maybe even print and bring it with you.)
Friday night all the quartets perform, and the top ten quartets will move on to the Saturday night show. But do not despair: maybe you will sing Saturday anyway.... I'll describe that below.
This probably won't happen - but if one of your singers is truly not prepared on your assigned song, you have two options. One is to notify the contest admins, and ask for another singer: which you should only do if your singer is truly unprepared. The other thing you can do is substitute another song. If you do that, the contest admin will quietly disqualify you from the Saturday night show, and no one needs to know.
This probably won't happen - but if one of your singers is truly not prepared on your assigned song, you have two options. One is to notify the contest admins, and ask for another singer: which you should only do if your singer is truly unprepared. The other thing you can do is substitute another song. If you do that, the contest admin will quietly disqualify you from the Saturday night show, and no one needs to know.
Quartets which advance to Saturday night will get their second song Saturday afternoon, usually after the chorus rehearsal.
It's good to come prepared with ideas for interpretation, props, alternative lyrics or chords, or anything that strikes your fancy. This is all for fun, so be creative!
After the Friday night phase of the competition, two new random quartets are formed by the contest admins, choosing from among the quartets that did not advance. They will be announced at the same time the songs for Saturday are given to the competing quartets. Those quartets will perform TWO songs randomly chosen for Saturday night. After the competition, First, Second and Third places are announced. No scores are revealed - this was all for fun, right?
Useful Links
- The NEHB Preparedness Blog.
- Critical Information About The Rally
- Run Through Calendar
- Tools for recording yourself
- Map of participants
- If you have to withdraw
- Additional learning tracks available to attendees, order from Music VP Will Johnson
- $15 per part, electronic only
- $17 per part, electronic + CD plus $3 shipping per order
- It's not too late to add the Challenge Song "Victr'y Road".
- Contact Joe Dempsey for more information.
- Travel Assistance (questions to Mark Schuldenfrei)
- If You Need A Ride From The Airport
- If You Need A Ride To The Airport
- If You Can Offer A Ride
- If you are using other transit, send me an email.
- $15 per part, electronic only
- $17 per part, electronic + CD plus $3 shipping per order
- Contact Joe Dempsey for more information.
- If You Need A Ride From The Airport
- If You Need A Ride To The Airport
- If You Can Offer A Ride
- If you are using other transit, send me an email.
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