SOUTHWEST & SOUTHEAST
COMBINED DIVISIONAL
CONVENTION-CONTESTS
SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2017
EL MONTE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
3048 Tyler Ave, El Monte, CA
CHORUS CONTEST
10:00 AM
QUARTET CONTEST
5:45 PM
Hosted by the
Masters of Harmony
celebrating over 30 years of
musical excellence
Welcome to the FWD
BARBERSHOP
HARMONY SOCIETY
2017 SW/SE Divisional Contest
Welcome to another exciting FWD SW/SE
Divisional Contest. This is our first visit to El Monte
High School, and we hope you enjoy the contest
facilities as much as we like spring weather on the
Pacific Coast.
Today’s competition will determine who will
represent Southern California and Southern
Nevada at the Fall District contest in Bakersfield,
California this October. We have a great turnout for
this contest, and many of you have come a long
way to participate. We wish all competitors the best of luck and a
wonderful competition experience.
Your events team and the Masters of Harmony have done their best to
make this Divisional Contest a success. We would like to thank El Monte
High School for sharing their facilities and making us welcome. We would
also like to thank members of the District Events Team for keeping the
contests running smoothly. We dedicate this competition to everyone
joining us today, you who “keep the whole world singing.”
Please enjoy the show. Tag and polecat singing is encouraged.
In Harmony,
Bill Rosica
SW/SE Divisional Chairmen
Team Chairmen
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District President: Gordon “Mongo” Bergthold
SE Division VP: Nick Papageorge • SW Division VP: Brent Anderson
Convention Chairmen: Bill Rosica • Events Chairman: Bryan Forbes
Treasurer: Rich Owen • District Music & Performance: Craig Ewing
Production Manager: Nick Papageorge / Russ Young
District C & J Chairman: Ron Black & Brett Littlefield
Registration: David Melville • House: Mark Freedkin
Stage: Sharon Ernsberger • Host: Larry Fletcher • Printing: Steve Katz
Judges Services: Rich Owen, Kristin Hasty & Amnon Avidor
Riser Coordination: Tom Christman • Signage: Leonard Jensen
Stage Manager: Sharon Ernsberger • Flow Manager: Jim Ernsberger
Program: Tim Truesdell
Schedule of Events
All times are approximate, except contest starting times
Download score sheets from on-line • http://tinyurl.com/FWD-2017-Scoresheets
Morning
9:00 am
9:00 am
9:00 am
9:30 am
10:00 am
Event
Location
Registration Opens
Auditorium
Chorus / Quartet sign-in table opens Auditorium
Doors Open for Quartet Contest
Auditorium
Judges Meeting/Luncheon
Backstage Room
Chorus Contest Begins
Auditorium
Evening
4:30 pm
5:30 pm
8:24 pm
8:44 pm
8:55 pm
10:10 pm
10:55 pm
11:40 pm
Doors open for Quartet Contest
Quartet contest begins
Contest Ends
Contest Results
Show of Champions
Quartet Evaluations, Sesson 1
Quartet Evaluations, Sesson 2
Quartet Evaluations Ends
Afternoon
1:40 pm
CA Announcements
2:00 pm
Chorus Evaluations, Sesson 1
2:50 pm
Chorus Evaluations, Sesson 2
3:35 pm
Chorus Evaluations Ends
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Show of Champions
Immediately following the Quartet Contest
Masters of Ceremonies
Nick Papageorge & Brent Anderson
CA Announcements
SW Quartet Champion
SE Chorus Champion
SE Quartet Champion
SW Chorus Champion
Keep The Whole World Singing
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Judging Panel
These contests would not be possible without the dedicated services of the Certified
Judges in our Society, These men spend up to five years training to earn their credentials
and serve without pay.
After the contest, the judges provide their appraisal of each group’s performance in an
evaluation session, They embody the true spirit of Barbershoppers by giving generously of
their coaching and judging talents to ensure the highest levels of the Barbershop craft are
maintained.
Official Panel of Judges
District Vice President for Contest & Judging: Ron Black
Contest Administrator
Music
Performance
Singing
Rick Haines - RMD
Bob Lawson - RMD
John Burri - EVG
Ken Potter - EVG
Rod Sgrignoli - RMD
Greg Caetano - SWD
John Coffin - RMD
Sam Papageorge - FWD
Chad Guyton - DIX
Rik Johnson - CSD
David Tautkus - FWD
Windsor, CO
Albuquerque, NM
Battle Ground, WA
Federal Way, WA
Littleton, CO
Cypress, TX
Denver, CO
La Habra, CA
Cleveland, TN
O Fallon, MO
Simi Valley, CA
All contestants are adjudicated in the following three scoring categories.
Each scoring judge awards from 0 to 100 points for each song.
Music Category
Music is defined as the song and arrangement, as performed. The Music Category judges
the arranger's skill and the performer's musicianship in bringing the mood or story of the
song to life, and the suitability of the material to the barbershop style.
The Music judge is responsible for adjudicating the musical elements of the performance.
He judges the degree to which the musical delivery demonstrates an artistic sensitivity to
the song's ongoing predominant musical element(s) and mood or story, as well as the
extent to which the musical performance displays the hallmarks of the barbershop style.
One of the primary hallmarks of barbershop music is its consonant harmony. Thus, the
quality of performance depends largely on the ensemble presence, accurate execution, and
artistic delivery of the consonant harmonies traditionally identified with the barbershop style.
Indirectly, the Music judge evaluates the work of the composer and arranger. A basic
prerequisite for a successful barbershop performance is that the song be appropriate to the
barbershop style.
Performance Category (New)
These judges evaluate how effectively a performer brings the song to life. They judge the
entertainment value of the performance; the art of the performance.
One significant goal of any art form is communication. A barbershop performance refers to
how the artist communicates his/her message and vision via the transformation of a song
into an entertaining experience for an audience. The performance of a song is the artist’s
gift to the audience; whose experiences, memories, and imagination transform that gift into
an emotional experience. The performers’ goal is to create a high level of entertainment
4 through the performance. The means to that end are as varied as the personality, abilities
and creative skills of the performers.
Singing Category
In the Singing category we judge artistic singing in the barbershop style – listening
holistically for ringing in-tune voices that use a free, beautiful and rich vocal quality, which is
wonderfully unified and vocally expressive.
Judges in this category evaluate the degree to which the performer achieves artistic singing
in the barbershop style: the production of vibrant, rich, resonant, technically accurate, and
highly skilled sound, created both by the individual singer's use of good vocal techniques,
and by the ensemble processes of tuning, balancing, unity of sound and precision. They
listen for a sense of precise intonation, a feeling of fullness or expansion of sound, a
perception of a high degree of vocal skill, a high level of unity and consistency throughout
the performance, and a freedom from apparent effort that allows the full communication of
the lyric and song.
Definition of the Barbershop Style
Barbershop harmony is a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant
four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture. The melody
is consistently sung by the lead, with the tenor harmonizing above the melody, the bass
singing the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completing the chord. Occasional
brief passages may be sung by fewer than four voice parts.
Barbershop music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies,
whose tones clearly define a tonal center and imply major and minor chords and
barbershop (dominant and secondary dominant) seventh chords that often resolve around
the circle of fifths, while also making use of other resolutions. Barbershop music also
features a balanced and symmetrical form, and a standard meter. The basic song and its
harmonization are embellished by the arranger to provide appropriate support of the song's
theme and to close the song effectively.
Featuring
Main Street
Sunday, May 21, 2017 • 3 pm
Richard and Karen Carpenter
Performing Arts Center
6200 Atherton Street
Long Beach, CA 90815
(562) 985-7000
www.carpenterarts.org
Golden Circle $39
Orchestra $29
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Chorus Contest
Master of Ceremonies
Bernard Priceman
Video and Audio recordings are not allowed
Please turn off all cell phones, pager, and other noisemakers.
No flash photography!
Digital or other non-flash still photography is permissible.
Joe Barbershopper chorus members please come backstage by 9:20am
MT Joe Barbershopper Chorus • Director, Ron Black
Song #1 ________________________________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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Song #2 ________________________________________
Coastliners • Director, Peter Neushul
(SW) - South Bay Chapter, Redondo Beach, CA • Plateau A
Song #1 ________________________________________
Song #2 ________________________________________
Valley Harmony Singers • Directors, Jeffery Bunch & Thomas Raffety
(SW) - San Fernando Chapter, San Fernando Valley, CA • Plateau A
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
Orange Empire Chorus • Director, Craig Ewing
(SE) - Fullerton Chapter, Fullerton, CA • Plateau AA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
South County Sound • Director, Dawn Castiglione
(SW) - South Orange County Chapter, Lake Forest, CA • Plateau AA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
Pasadena Crown City Chorus • Director, John Minsker
(SW) - Pasadena Chapter, Pasadena, CA • Plateau A
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
Inland Sound • Directors, Carl Buntin & William Kliewer
(SE) - Inland Empire Chapter, Upland, CA • Plateau AA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
7. The Oceanaires • Directors, Ben Lowe & Laura Singer
(SW) - Santa Monica Chapter, Santa Monica, CA • Plateau AA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
8. Gaslight Chorus • Director, Phil Ordaz
(SE) - Brea Chapter, Brea, CA • Plateau AAA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
• INTERMISSION - 15 MINUTES •
9. Temecula Wine Valley Harmonizers • Directors, Sang Park &
Arthur Sauls
(SE) - Tamecula Chapter, Tamecula, CA • Plateau A
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
10. Sun Harbor • Director, Kathleen Hansen
(SE) - San Diego Chapter, San Diego, CA • Plateau AA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
11. Pacific Sound • Director, Kelly Shepard
(SW) - Rincon Beach Chapter, Ventura, CA • Plateau AAA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
12. Pacific Coast Harmony • Director, Royce Ferguson
(SE) - La Jolla Chapter, La Jolla, CA • Plateau AAA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
13. Central Coast Chordsmen • Director, Robert McGee
(SW) - Santa Maria Chapter, Santa Maria, CA • Plateau A
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
14. Silver Statesmen • Director, Jim Halvorson
(SE) - Las Vegas Chapter, Las Vegas, NV • Plateau AAA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
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15. Color Country Chorus • Director, Chris Leonard
(SE) - St. George Chapter, St. George, UT • Plateau AA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
16. The Westminster Chorus • Director, David Rakita
(SE) - Westminster Chapter, Westminster, CA • Plateau AAA
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
FWD Southwest & Southeast
Contest Chorus Qualifiers
Choruses scouring 744 points (62% of 1200) or more qualify to compete in
the FWD Fall Convention and Contests in October in Bakersfield, CA.
Download score sheets from on-line • http://tinyurl.com/FWD-2017-Scoresheets
Southwest Chorus Qualifiers
1. _________________
____ pts
4. _________________
____ pts
3. _________________
____ pts
6. _________________
____ pts
2. _________________
____ pts
5. _________________
Southwest Division Awards
First Place SW Chorus Champion
________________________
Plateau A Chorus Champion
________________________
Plateau AAA Chorus Champion
________________________
Plateau AA Chorus Champion
Most Improved Chorus
________________________
________________________
Southeast Chorus Qualifiers
1. _________________
____ pts
4. _________________
____ pts
3. _________________
____ pts
6. _________________
____ pts
2. _________________
____ pts
5. _________________
Southeast Division Awards
First Place SW Chorus Champion
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____ pts
____ pts
________________________
Plateau A Chorus Champion
________________________
Plateau AAA Chorus Champion
________________________
Plateau AA Chorus Champion
Most Improved Chorus
________________________
________________________
Quartet Contest
Master of Ceremonies
Russ Young
Video and Audio recordings are not allowed
Please turn off all cell phones, pager, and other noisemakers.
No flash photography!
Digital or other non-flash still photography is permissible.
Quartet personnel are listed in the following order
TENOR, LEAD, BARITONE, BASS
MT The Newfangled Four • 2016 International 11th Place Semi-Finalist
Joey Buss, Jackson Niebrugge, Ryan Wisniewski, Jack Tickner
Song #1 ________________________________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Song #2 ________________________________________
Above The Lawn • Seniors Quartet • Las Vegas
(SE) Buddy Seeberg, Jeff Swart, Chuck Wines, Dave Kennedy
Song #1 ________________________________________
Song #2 ________________________________________
Jin and the Tonic • South Orange County, Santa Fe Springs
(SE) John Skipper, Michael Ocampo, Jin Kim, Robert Cossentine
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
66 WEST • Santa Fe Springs, Santa Clara
(SW) Lance Ashkenasy, Raymond Johnson, Kevin Soto, Harrison Ashkenasy
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
Velvet Frogs • Fullerton, Santa Fe Springs, Santa Monica, S. Bay
(SW) Craig Ewing, David Livingston, C J Sams, Jr., Bill Wilson
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
The Great Outdoors • Novice Quartet • Santa Monica
(SW) Andrew Lehto, Alonso Pirio, Kevin Needham, Jasper Burik
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
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6. Behind the Barn • San Diego, La Jolla, Frank Thorne
(SE) David Garstang, Dave Pfizenmeier, Mark Whelan, Neal Palmer
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
7. Sugar Daddies • Senior Quartet • Fullerton, Orange Quartet
(SE) Thomas Nichols, David Lowerre, Michael Evans, Donald Derler
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
8. 184 • Santa Fe Springs, La Jolla, El Cajon, Frank Thorne
(SE) Bradley Kelso, Dan Jordan, Bryan Sandberg, Martin Fredstrom
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
9. Fourtunate Sons • Westminster, La Jolla
(SE) Chase Cullen, Ben Smurthwaite, Jason James, Bobby Reynolds
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
• INTERMISSION - 15 MINUTES •
10. Oddly Enuf • Novice Quartet • Santa Monica, San Fernando Valley,
Santa Fe Springs
(SW) Adam Marangakis, Bob Karlin, Mark Wolf, Timothy Singer
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
11. Four Fifteen • California Delta, Brea
(SE) Bryan Forbes, Larry Gassman, John Gassman, John Saylor
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
12. Big and Tall • Novice Quartet • Santa Monica, Rogue Valley, OR
(SW) David Zasloff, Don Tsuchiyama, Chuck Bevitt, Walter Mees, Jr.
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
13. Emergency Exit • Novice Quartet • Fullerton
(SE) Jaysson Yriarte, Justin Gabriel, Mark Halsig, Andy Au
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Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
14. Time Wise • Seniors Quartet • Las Vegas
(SE) Gordon Lankenau, Jeff Swart, Warren Hettinga, Chuck Wines
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
15. Cheers • South Orange County, Orange Quartet, Fullerton
(SE) John Skipper, Michael Ocampo, Kenneth Klein, Michael Werner
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
16. Apex • Senior Quartet • Novice Quartet • Santa Fe Springs,
Santa Monica, Orange Quartet, San Fernando Valley
(SW) Michael Van Schoonhoven, David Livingston, Douglas Ward,
Charles Carothers
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
17. Old Town Rascals • Temecula, Palomar Pacific
(SE) Arthur Sauls, Mark Lewis, Adam Massey, Steve Secules
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
18. Telegraph • Santa Fe Springs, Westminster, Santa Monica,
Inland Empire
(SW) Tom Moore, Jeremy Loper, Adam Marangakis, Robert Shelton
Song #1 _______________________________________
Song #2 _______________________________________
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FWD Southwest & Southeast
Contest Quartet Qualifiers
Download score sheets from on-line to your smart phone or tablet
http://tinyurl.com/FWD-2017-Scoresheets
Quartets scoring 816 points double panel (68% of 1200) or more will qualify
to compete in the FWD Fall Convention and Contests in October in
Bakersfield, CA.
Southwest Quartet Qualifiers
1. _________________
____ pts
4. _________________
____ pts
3. _________________
____ pts
6. _________________
____ pts
2. _________________
____ pts
5. _________________
Awards
____ pts
2017 Southwest Senior Quartet Champion ___________________
2017 Southwest Quartet Champion ________________________
2017 Southwest Novice Quartet
________________________
Southeast Quartet Qualifiers
1. _________________
____ pts
4. _________________
____ pts
3. _________________
____ pts
6. _________________
____ pts
2. _________________
____ pts
5. _________________
Southeast Division Awards
____ pts
2017 Southeast Senior Quartet Champion____________________
2017 Southeast Quartet Champion ________________________
2017 Southeast Novice Quartet
________________________
Upcoming events in the Far Western District
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California Delta show, May 20
Santa Fe Springs show, May 21, 3 pm
Temecula show, May 21
Walnut Creek Show, 2 pm, May 21
Greater Phoenix show, 7 pm. June 3
La Jolla show, 2 pm, June 10
FWD Summer Board Meeting, June 16-17
Greater Phoenix show, 7 pm. June 22
BHS International Convention in
Las Vegas, July 2-8
See the District Calendar for more
details on these and other events!