AdamTheTall

I mean... David Chan is a professional, award-winning, internationally-acclaimed violinist who married another professional violinist, and who spends his off-hours teaching violin students at juliard.

So, like, oboe or something?

Have you ever worked with or seen a show conducted by Steven Reineke? Whenever he does a retrospective of a composer or a musical style I feel like he does a good job of providing musical and historical context to the selections in a way that I thought might help a non-traditional musical audience develop enough interest in coming back for a classical performance. I always feel like his providing the audience with the trivia and factoids surrounding a composition does a good job of piquing the interest of audience members who might otherwise be less inclined to worry about how Schwartz came up with a particular idea and just want to hear "Day by Day"or "Defying Gravity" for the 800th time.

This post was downvoted when I found it and I don't know why - literally barbershop is mostly about seventh chords. I once took a penalty in a BHS competition because to the judge's ear there weren't enough of them. They don't have a copy of the music in front of them, so they're judging by feel.

The arrangement we were using was one that had been used by a gold-medal-winning quartet about a decade prior, but somehow when we sang it "there weren't enough seventh chords".

It's an older community, but they have a collegiate level contest that's increasingly popular and doing a lot to bring in a younger crowd.

Most major quartets from the last twenty years have been men under forty, and many under thirty.

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