How to Improve Sight-Reading Skills
How to improve sight-reading skills An Introduction to Sight-Reading What exactly is sight-reading? Sight-reading is the ability to look at a sheet music chart and sing it for the first
The Houston Tidelanders Chorus were excited to be able to host our Share a Good Time for the Clear Lake area. The Good Time Show has been a traditional and performance stable for a very long time.
It wasn’t just a “Good Time”, it was a great time! The crowds at our two shows did not disappoint! We saw many toes tapping, people singing along, and even received two standing ovations.
Our performances included our Very Large Quartet “The Tide Pool”, S.L.E.D Quartet, Ringside, and Lakeside. In addition to the Tidelanders, the Men’s (TTBB) High School Quartet Tag Contest competition winner UmbraFour from Shadow Creek got on stage and entertained all of us. It was clear that the members of UmbraFour had spent the time necessary to put on a great performance.
A distinction of this show is that the Houston Tidelanders act as the table’s waiters. At the Clear Lake “Share a Good Time” shows, we served water, tea, beer and sodas with tamales and popcorn.
These cabaret style show features our family friendly a cappella barbershop repertoire but using family style table. Meaning, guests get to sit and visit with each other. In fact, this seating arrangement encourages friends, family, and strangers to enjoy the entertainment together.
Membership Chair and St. Paul the Apostle Church parishioner Pete Hasbrook said, “the Clear Lake Good Time shows are some of our favorite performances of the entire year. The Clear Lake area has been good to us over the last 35 or so years. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to perform for parishioners of St. Paul”.
The shows were so successful that we are already in discussions with St. Paul’s to produce our Good Time Show there again next year.
Both of our shows went well and we performed our set better than we have all year. It was awesome to get two standing ovations. Many of us in the Chorus also had the opportunity to see and hear the Quartets perform. It was easy to see why our patrons enjoy our Quartets performances.
We had about 250 patrons in attendance between both shows. The crowd was very interactive and engaged during the entire show – that was awesome to witness!
Our Set List included:
Be Our Guest
I Love to Hear That Old Barbershop Style
At Last
Java Jive
Mona Lisa
Almost Like Being in Love
Desperado
Kiss the Girl
Swing Low Chariot – Swing Down Chariot
Smile
Blue Moon
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
This is My Country
America the Beautiful
Armed Forces Melody
The Houston Tidelanders Chorus performs in the Greater Houston Metropolitan area throughout the calendar year. Our organization has performed at charity benefits including Fort Bend Family Promise, Fort Bend ISD Men’s Fest, and the annual Heroes at Home Golf event benefiting the Green Beret Foundation. The Houston Tidelanders offers Singing Valentines, Good Times Shows, and Christmas performances annually.
The Houston Tidelanders have won the Southwestern District of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s competition 17 times and placed in the top 10 in International competition 9 times.
Our last Good Time Show performance in the Clear Lake part of Houston was in April of 2019 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.
Learn how Barbershop Harmony is different from other types of a cappella music in The Basics of Barbershop Harmony Explained or get started with The Basics of Music Theory Explained.
How to improve sight-reading skills An Introduction to Sight-Reading What exactly is sight-reading? Sight-reading is the ability to look at a sheet music chart and sing it for the first
Generally in most years, the SWD sponsors an annual Chorus and Quartet competition. The exception is the pandemic year we experienced due to Covid-19. There was no competition during the pandemic. The BHS recent resumed chorus competitions in 2022.
The Tidelanders excitedly sponsored our first singing competition. We promoted the contest to over 200 high schools in Harris and Fort Bend counties in Texas. We announced two winners (Men’s and Women’s) mid-April. We are looking forward to planning a bigger contest next year.
The Houston Tidelanders Chorus is pleased that we were able to perform for Clear Lake audiences once again! We’ve been performing in the Clear Lake area for about 25 years and it’s one of favorite shows.
“Smile” continues to be considered timeless. Meaning the message always seems to be relevant. As long as it continues to be popular, artists will continue to cover and interpret it’s meaning in order to continue to have it resonate with audiences. Modern artists like Michael Jackson have arranged and performed it.