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A Musical Competition in Perspective October 31, 2016

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Rounding up the “Around the Globe” concert in Las Vegas together with hosting chorus Christchurch City Chorus from New Zealand and featured quartets last night, singing “How we sang” together with the audience, puts this international competition in perspective.

“The summer of 1945 was a time to appreciate being alive. Many longed for the older, gentler days, and one of the things held dearest was music.” This was the time and reason why Sweet Adelines International started.

Today Sweet Adelines International is a highly respected worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance. This independent, nonprofit music education association is one of the world’s largest singing organizations for women, boasting 23,000 members!

Members extend over five continents and belong to more than 500 choruses and 1,200 quartets. Sweet Adelines choruses and quartets sing exciting a cappella, four-part harmony music, barbershop style.

1997 the nordics got their own region Nordic Light Region – Sweet Adelines International Region #32 with today 18 choruses of which one is prospective, as well as 28 registered quartets, a total of 900 barbershop singers.

Rönninge Show Chorus (RSC) “2014 International Chorus Champions, Sweet Adelines International”, was founded 1983 in Sweden and has today over 155 members in the age range of 18-80.

This is the 10th international competition for RSC, and together with Pearls of the Sound, and five quartets Milli Blink, VocalityQuartet, MACC QuartetTwist Quartet and SVEA, we are now representing region #32 in the internationals in Las Vegas.

Let’s continue to harmonize the world. Thank you Sweet Adelines InternationalChristchurch City Chorus and all singers – past, current and future – around the globe.

Let’s always WIN [focus on What is Important Now 😉 ] !

– Johanna C. Nilsson, Management Team – Marketing, Rönninge Show Chorus

Rönninge Show Chorus PRESS KIT (Official)

 

Broadway Next? November 10, 2013

Rönninge Show Chorus, GoldAnd the winner is…. Rönninge Show Chorus, from the Nordic Region! Rönninge Show Chorus won gold in the world championship of barbershop singing, in Honolulu Saturday November 9, 2013.  They received the highest score in history. Keep spreading the news…

Gosh – I am smiling as I see the video from the performance in the final.

1) To me barbershop has always been such an american style of singing – the clothing, make-up, everything around it. And actually, living in the US now, it still seems – a tad different.

2) I’m seeing a lot of faces from the old times 18 years ago – this choir (132 on stage) has members in the age of 16 to who knows 75?

3) It’s a solid musical performance – and what is the theme?????!!!!?!?!?!? Can’t believe it. As it has been my theme this fall.  In the final package shown in the video below from the webcast the choir performs 4 songs. The show-tunes start at 12min 25s.

New York next? Maybe re-joining this choir, would be the quickest way to Broadway. 😉 Not kidding. I wonder if I would make it in the audition for the spot in the middle of the front row again. Imagine the wall of sound coming over you being in the very middle of 150 singers… Pretty amazing.

My vote is: Broadway next.

Johanna

 

Digging Gold in the USA November 8, 2013

At some point it’s time to stop counting the years… But it’s 18 years ago that I travelled with Rönninge Show Chorus for the first time to compete in the international barbershop contest. 120 of the 150 choir members came along. My mom joined as our medical doctor. The big arena in New Orleans was the stage.

We had trained hard, been coached by the best, and our own musical director was one of them: Britt-Heléne Bonnedahl. Later on she was the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Sweet Adeline International. Another one was a male coach who had trained world class golf players. [visualization!] We got judged in four categories: sound, music, expression and showmanship.

One song from the final package was “One moment in time”, originally sang by Whitney Houston. When I hear that song today my mind is still triggered and I have straightened my spine for performance before I realize it is that music playing. Another show tune was “Gräva guld i USA”. The World Cup tune for the Swedish men’s soccer team 1994 – Digging Gold in the USA.

The soccer team came third. The choir came second. This year… may they get the gold. Last but not least in the final tomorrow in Hawaii.

Johanna
(And yes, I shared this on Facebook – so it is a back-date post… )

 

Oh Ye Be Faithful November 10, 2012

November 10, Saturday morning in San Francisco. The weather temperature changed from 27 degrees Celsius earlier this week, to 12 degrees right now. I woke up early, put on the largest and warmest sweater I have, soft pants and socks, and started to clean up and fiddle around – clean the light holders in the window… while singing Christmas Carols. “Oh ye be faithful…” to be more precise.

Mm… hot tea, nice breakfast – let me play that song on youtube… And this is what I found. (more…)

 

 
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