Youth In Harmony!

If you’re like most high school choral directors, you’ve probably asked yourself, “How can I attract more male singers to my choral program and keep them interested in singing?” The Barbershop Harmony Society and the River Cities Jubilee Chorus want to help address this issue.

The Society’s Youth in Harmony (YIH) program provides an introduction to a distinctly American art form that’ll excite your students about vocal music. Why Barbershop harmony? It’s fun! Students enjoy singing it, thrill to the performance opportunities, and share something that’s unique and novel. Not only do your current singers gain satisfaction, but their infectious enthusiasm can recruit other students.

Barbershop harmony is helpful in promoting a number of musical skills:

• Improves ear training for accurate tuning.
• Develops a strong sense of tonality, resolving around the Circle of Fifths.
• Helps develop sensitivity to chord balancing and choral blend.
• Stresses proper diction in execution of word sounds.
• Builds interpretive skills to provide a more exciting performance.