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Four women ranging in age from 25 to 65 make up the barbershop quartet, Generations. In this piece they sing a number of songs while also talking about what got them into barbershop singing and why they enjoy it so much.
Sweet Adelines, acapella singing, women, barbershop
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Four women ranging in age from 25 to 65 make up the barbershop quartet, Generations. In this piece they sing a number of songs while also talking about what got them into barbershop singing and why they enjoy it so much. Sweet Adelines, acapella singing, women, barbershop
Transcript
?Generations ? A Women?s Barbershop Quartet?
MUSIC ?Crazy?
MOLLY
Barbershop is four-part harmony.
LOIS
We don?t use any instruments. We use our voices as our instruments.
MOLLY
That first picture in people?s minds ? that?s four men standing around with little vests on with little straw hats. That?s probably the way it started.
ELAINE
Sweet Adelines is a women?s organization of barbershop harmony.
MOLLY
We are proud to say that it was invented by men and perfected by women.
NARRATOR
Over sixty years ago a few women decided they wanted to participate in the ?chord-ringing, harmony? that their husbands were singing. That was the beginning of Sweet Adelines International back in 1945. Today nearly 30,000 women participate in more than 600 choruses around the world. One of the goals of Sweet Adelines was to create and promote barbershop quartets. Generations is...
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When we hear the term "barbershop music" we think men. But think again. This barbershop quartet is made up of women.
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