Saturday, July 25, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Anameim Results
As many of my readers may know already, I've now returned from my trip to California which was partly pleasure and partly barbershop (just kidding... that's pleasure too).
My Quartet, "Chameleon" finished a respectable 37th place scoring our highest overall score ever (and best overall position). If the individual category scores are to be believed, we are pretty good musicians, mediocre singers and piss-poor presenters (I exaggerate at both ends!). I'm also pretty lucky to join a small group of singers who have sung in the international quartet contest on two parts now (bari last year, lead this year), and I believe that I have the current longest running international competitor streak, at 12 years(which includes 10 years as a chorus competitor, one year where I was just a college competitor, and last year where I was just a "regular" quartet competitor)... woohoo!
The chorus (TNL) after a year off returned to the international stage and placed a respectable 5th place (the competition is getting much more difficult).
On the whole, the international convention was good fun. I'll post links to some of my California pictures when I find the time to sift through them (which should be soon, as I'll be a lonely bachelor for a three weeks after Susanna leaves for Taiwan tomorrow night).
My Quartet, "Chameleon" finished a respectable 37th place scoring our highest overall score ever (and best overall position). If the individual category scores are to be believed, we are pretty good musicians, mediocre singers and piss-poor presenters (I exaggerate at both ends!). I'm also pretty lucky to join a small group of singers who have sung in the international quartet contest on two parts now (bari last year, lead this year), and I believe that I have the current longest running international competitor streak, at 12 years(which includes 10 years as a chorus competitor, one year where I was just a college competitor, and last year where I was just a "regular" quartet competitor)... woohoo!
The chorus (TNL) after a year off returned to the international stage and placed a respectable 5th place (the competition is getting much more difficult).
On the whole, the international convention was good fun. I'll post links to some of my California pictures when I find the time to sift through them (which should be soon, as I'll be a lonely bachelor for a three weeks after Susanna leaves for Taiwan tomorrow night).
Monday, July 13, 2009
Seen in California
On a sign in a window in a desert zoo: "Cold Beer, Ice cream".
On another sign in the same window "Closed for summer"
On another sign in the same window "Closed for summer"
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