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What is Barbershop Harmony?
Barbershop Harmony Society
The Caveman Chorus |
The Caveman Chorus
The formation of what eventually became the Mammoth
Cave Chapter began in the spring of 1971 at a meeting in Glasgow,
Kentucky called by Society Field Representative, Chet Fox. The 12 men
at the meeting elected Marvin Nicholson president of what was proposed
to be the Glasgow-Barren County Chapter. Nicholson had previous
barbershop experience as a member of the old Versailles, Kentucky
Chapter.
Bill Boone, the choral director at Glasgow High School, agreed to be
the new group's first musical director despite the fact that he had no
previous barbershop experience. The proposed name for the as yet
unlicensed chapter chorus was the "Highlander" chorus. By the summer
of 1972, after several public performances under Boone and successor
John Malone (a senior at nearby Western Kentucky University), the men
from Glasgow and Barren County were joined by approximately 10 ex-barbershoppers
from a failed chapter in Bowling Green, about 35 miles west of Glasgow
and the site of Western Kentucky University with the solid contingent
from Bowling Green now in the fold, along with about seven or eight
others from various towns in the Southern Kentucky area, it was
decided to pursue the name "Mammoth Cave Chapter" with the Society in
order to reflect the concept of membership.
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