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Show 'The Music Man' is long gone, but they're still harmonizing navanpnsamvinBaaanHinnW-n aiJi-ii IWU , Imuran i. i I J ? " 3 'J: i X T I 1 1 T'-VtJtJ '''' , '-.'A ' ' 1 3 :" - t ' . V ' ' ' " :; If f Vi f" -"T " . I '' " ' ;':::;ffl;i;i:: 1 " 1; jl I1 by Teri Gomes "Hummm." "Hummm." "HVMmm." "HUMMM." Acompanied by nothing more than a pitch pipe, Park City's own barbershop quartet quar-tet is off and singing again. VLida Rose I'm home again Rose To get the sun Back in the sky." The crooning foursome began their harmonizing last December in the Park City Performances version of "The Music Man." They played the constantly-bickering constantly-bickering members of the River City School Board who are somehow convinced that they have the makings of a barbershop quartet. The Park City men who played the quartet were so convinced that they've been singing ever since. "Lida Rose I'm home again Rose About a thousand kisses Shy." With their red- and white-striped white-striped shirts, the four men, with varying musical backgrounds (from singing in a high school chorus to majoring in classical woodwind) wood-wind) look and sound the part of a turn-of-the-century musical group. Their varied repertoire includes their hit numbers from Music Man, "Lida Rose," "It's You," "Goodnight Ladies," and "Sincere." "Ding, Dong, Ding You can hear the chapel bell chime Ding Dong Ding At the least suggestion, I'll pop the question. " The quartet is comprised 'of Bill Tatomer, locomotive engineer and first tenor; Bob -Toy, reservation assistant 'for Park City Ski Holidays "and baritone; Mike Phillips, United States Department of 'Agriculture photographer jand bass; and Dick Cum-mings, Cum-mings, representative for a ; legal and medical seminar : group and second tenor. I "Lida Rose I'm home again Rose I Without a sweetheart Tomyname." I Since last December, the ; four men have performed for J a variety of convention groups. They have sung in bar rooms, cameoed in the I musical revue, "How the ; West Was Sung" and most recently sang as part of the outdoor entertainment at the photo by Terl Gomes The members of Park City's own barbershop quartet are from left to right: Bill Tatomer, Dick Cummings, Bob Toy and Mike Phillips. Park City Village Plaza last weekend. "Lida Rose Now everyone fenows That I am hoping You're the same." Why sing barbershop-style music? "We all enjoy close harmony, har-mony, Bob Toy explained. "We usually sing within the same octave and everyone has to depend on everyone else. Besides, it beats the two- and three-part harmony thai is so often done late at night at some bar." "So here is my love song Not fancy or fine Lida Rose , Oh, won't yoube mine." All the men protest that, because of their varying work schedules, getting together is often difficult. But, when they are together, they claim there are no ego problems involved. There is only the. desire to sing well together. "Except for the time when Toy screwed up the lead." "No, it was Cummings who was off." "I thought Tatomer should have come in sooner on the note." "And Philips was way off." Some roles are hard to shake. But never mind. Those former school board members can really croon a 'une. "Lida Rose Oh Lida Rose Oh, Lida Rose." |