Paul Davies on the Arrangement Process...
26 April saw just over 30 barbershop arrangers gathered together in Birmingham to exchange ideas and learn from each other.
Our keynote presentation came from Paul Davies, the UK’s most successful barbershop arranger. Paul took the chorus he founded, Cambridge Chord Company, to several gold medals in British and European contests, and picked up the Pavarotti Choir of the World trophy at Llangollen with a medley of parodies that mocked the Welsh (he’s brave as well as talented).
CCC have also been more successful in International barbershop contests than any other British chorus by some considerable margin. They’ve done all this on Paul’s arrangements, so he is clearly someone worth inviting along to share his insights.
Paul’s talk was an entertaining and enlightening mixture of inspirational ideas, practical advice and anecdotal embellishments.
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