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Welcome to the thrill
of singing when four, forty or four hundred men blend their voices in the unique
barbershop harmony style that is a distinct American heritage. The Gold Standard
Chorus (GSC) is the performing unit of the Charlotte Chapter of the Barbershop
Harmony Society. The GSC is a non-profit corporation that was formed in 1950.
Barbershoppers get their fun in singing -- for each other and for the public. The better we sing, the more we enjoy it. Therefore, we enter official
Barbershop Harmony Society competitions to keep improving. Our annual stage production is widely acclaimed for its hilarious presentations, its excellent music and award-winning quartets.
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About the
Barbershop Harmony Society...
As the name suggests, the Society's purpose is to perpetuate and spread this uniquely American musical art form throughout the world. There are more
than 32,000 members in more than 825 chapters in the United States and Canada.
Affiliated organizations throughout the world include Australia, Germany,
Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Great Britain.
There are also barbershop singers in Denmark, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Uganda,
China, Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Iceland, and the Russian Federation..
This style of unaccompanied vocal music is characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note. The voice parts are tenor, lead, baritone and bass. The lead usually sings the melody, the tenor harmonizing above, the bass singing the lowest harmonizing notes and the baritone completing the chord either above or below the lead.
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