Guests and first time visitors to the Manhattan Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society don't usually know just how deep and wide the iceberg below the surface is that anchors it's shining top, The Big Apple Chorus. In fact, the Big Apple Chorus is a small part of an amazing, expansive and tremendously supportive organization filled with talent, tools, resources and opportunities for the avocational male singer of every age. It's a little hard to get your arms around just how vast (yes, vast) the opportunities are in just a few casual, Monday night visits.

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Harmony College East might give you an idea of what is in store and accessible to the members of The Big Apple Chorus, the 800 other chapters and 30,000 men in B.H.S.

On June 15-18 at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD several hundred members of B.H.S. chapters, like Manhattan's, will come from about a 200-mile radius to participate in Harmony College and Director's College East.

This annual weekend convocation offer specialized courses (at nearly all levels) for quartets, quartet and chorus singers, chorus directors, arrangers, show producers, show MCs and comedians, coaches in training and improvisational harmonizing, barbershop music theory and history- to name a few subjects offered. Attendees can come solo and optionally as quartets. There is even a special Youth in Harmony Program offered to High School and College students.

It is an exceptionally rewarding experience, for example, for full quartets to participate in the day long round robin expert coaching sessions and evening performances offered.

The weekend includes numerous shows, performance opportunits and improvational jam session "woodshedding." Besides being an intensive weekend for learning it is also a fraternal weekend with lots good fellowship. Fees are modest and optionally include housing and meals.

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