From the 43 views right now, I'm guessing about 50% are mine :). Can't stop watching this. I don't think I ever heard them sing this one as good as right here. That is how it's done!! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Wonderful, wonderful. This brings back good memories of hearing the SPEBSQSA champions in the Plaza and Proctors Theaters in Schenectady, New York in the 1950s.
Stunning! How I'd love to see Ringmasters live. One thing about this clip, and others, that galls me, however, revolves around the crowd's interrupting the quartet while they're still performing: Jakob's incredible post is something deserving of careful, indeed almost reverential, attention. To whoop and whistle four or five seconds prior to the natural conclusion of the note and the piece itself almost spoils it and seems almost vulgar...seriously, people. Exercise some decorum and basic audience discipline. I understand being excited as an audience member, but as a performer I also 'get' the special sacredness of space creating magic moments brings. Please- take a breath; wait, let the song naturally conclude. And THEN go nuts. Just my thoughts.
I completely agree with you. Although, I'm assuming you're part of the Barbershop community as well, and we're some of the only people who really appreciate those kinds of things in that way. With events like this that have such large audiences there are almost always people who are used to loud and rowdy concerts, where they begin to scream whenever the main vocalist isn't singing. When they hear the final chord they think of it as the final words being sung in a pop song, where they go crazy while the instruments finish close down the song. Even at HU 2018, for the Friday night show the audience began to clap where they thought a tag was, when in reality it was a false tag to lead to the real one, but they interrupted the song so much that the middle part couldn't even be heard. The rowdy people will begin to clap, then because of the social pressure of the others clapping around them, others who don't know any better will just follow suit. It's sad people don't know that, but we've gotta remember that the Barbershop bubble is much smaller than we may think sometimes.
They go from G to G# at 0:28. That isn't written in the music. At 1:52 that is a modulation, which sounds like it's put into a new key, but it's brief. They return to the previous key. You can tell bc at the tag, the lead posts the root of the last chord, which is G#. My point was they preformed an unwritten key change, which I've never heard them do in any other variation of the piece. I can say I do enjoy the song more in G#.
Its not really a key change, it's just that they slided the frequency of the notes a little bit. That is very common when singing acapella without an actual instrument to accompany you. humans are not instruments, so they end up singing in the frequency they are more comfortable with
Love this group. Will miss martin Will not be the same.
From the 43 views right now, I'm guessing about 50% are mine :). Can't stop watching this. I don't think I ever heard them sing this one as good as right here. That is how it's done!! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Does anybody ever acknowledge how lobely tht little drop in voice was from the baritone and tenor was @ 2:32
Wonderful, wonderful. This brings back good memories of hearing the SPEBSQSA champions in the Plaza and Proctors Theaters in Schenectady, New York in the 1950s.
Stunning! How I'd love to see Ringmasters live. One thing about this clip, and others, that galls me, however, revolves around the crowd's interrupting the quartet while they're still performing: Jakob's incredible post is something deserving of careful, indeed almost reverential, attention. To whoop and whistle four or five seconds prior to the natural conclusion of the note and the piece itself almost spoils it and seems almost vulgar...seriously, people. Exercise some decorum and basic audience discipline. I understand being excited as an audience member, but as a performer I also 'get' the special sacredness of space creating magic moments brings. Please- take a breath; wait, let the song naturally conclude. And THEN go nuts. Just my thoughts.
I completely agree with you. Although, I'm assuming you're part of the Barbershop community as well, and we're some of the only people who really appreciate those kinds of things in that way. With events like this that have such large audiences there are almost always people who are used to loud and rowdy concerts, where they begin to scream whenever the main vocalist isn't singing. When they hear the final chord they think of it as the final words being sung in a pop song, where they go crazy while the instruments finish close down the song. Even at HU 2018, for the Friday night show the audience began to clap where they thought a tag was, when in reality it was a false tag to lead to the real one, but they interrupted the song so much that the middle part couldn't even be heard. The rowdy people will begin to clap, then because of the social pressure of the others clapping around them, others who don't know any better will just follow suit. It's sad people don't know that, but we've gotta remember that the Barbershop bubble is much smaller than we may think sometimes.
That octave at 2:04 is so perfectly tuned
The overtone is real, it seems to be a soprano singing in the background hahah
They ended in a different key than they started in...
Because at 1:52 they do a key change.
They go from G to G# at 0:28. That isn't written in the music. At 1:52 that is a modulation, which sounds like it's put into a new key, but it's brief. They return to the previous key. You can tell bc at the tag, the lead posts the root of the last chord, which is G#. My point was they preformed an unwritten key change, which I've never heard them do in any other variation of the piece. I can say I do enjoy the song more in G#.
This happens a decent amount with them I think haha, there's a video of blackbird and of notre Dame where they change keys.
Its not really a key change, it's just that they slided the frequency of the notes a little bit. That is very common when singing acapella without an actual instrument to accompany you. humans are not instruments, so they end up singing in the frequency they are more comfortable with