http://www.daveho.com/2009/02/05/20-year-dream/ DaveHo's home on the web. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.daveho.com/2009/02/05/20-year-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-37 daveho.com » Blog Archive » The perils of composing music Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:12:11 +0000 http://www.daveho.com/?p=154#comment-37 [...] advent of the ManWeekend excursions. It had occurred to me that the majority of us had sung with the Dreamers, our college fraternity’s a capella group.  Since we were there, I thought we should use the [...] [...] advent of the ManWeekend excursions. It had occurred to me that the majority of us had sung with the Dreamers, our college fraternity’s a capella group.  Since we were there, I thought we should use the [...]

]]> http://www.daveho.com/2009/02/05/20-year-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-34 DaveHo Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:07:20 +0000 http://www.daveho.com/?p=154#comment-34 A followup: Since posting I've received some very nice feedback, mostly from the principal players noted above. But I was told of a factual error: Shawn Pearce did not sing with the Dreamers during our probationary period; he was working in a university production of "Godspell". He did join in during our first full membership year (and remained a force in the acappella scene at PSU for over eight more years!) I would also be remiss if I didn't mention one other name - Chris Goffredo. Of all the Dreamers I sang with at the very beginning, ChrisGo had seemed to vanish from sight for me and others in the group after graduation. Kevin and Doug I had visited once (each) between graduation and the 20th, and Marc could be looked up on IMDB, and we all followed Paul's post-PSU exploits with DaVinci's Notebook. But we weren't even sure where ChrisGo was at this point. So lest he thinks I was making a conspicuous omission, since he was at the Diner on that Saturday night, you weren't in this narrative for a very stupid, silly reason: I didn't want to spell your name wrong! I didn't have the definitive spelling in front of me as I was composing so I erred on discretion. But let me state categorically that ChrisGo is as vital to the history of this group as Kevin or Doug or Lou or Paul or anyone else: He will always be our voice for "Unchained Melody" or "Goodnight Sweetheart". As the kids say: Big mad props to ChrisGo! A followup: Since posting I’ve received some very nice feedback, mostly from the principal players noted above. But I was told of a factual error: Shawn Pearce did not sing with the Dreamers during our probationary period; he was working in a university production of “Godspell”. He did join in during our first full membership year (and remained a force in the acappella scene at PSU for over eight more years!)
I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention one other name – Chris Goffredo. Of all the Dreamers I sang with at the very beginning, ChrisGo had seemed to vanish from sight for me and others in the group after graduation. Kevin and Doug I had visited once (each) between graduation and the 20th, and Marc could be looked up on IMDB, and we all followed Paul’s post-PSU exploits with DaVinci’s Notebook. But we weren’t even sure where ChrisGo was at this point. So lest he thinks I was making a conspicuous omission, since he was at the Diner on that Saturday night, you weren’t in this narrative for a very stupid, silly reason: I didn’t want to spell your name wrong! I didn’t have the definitive spelling in front of me as I was composing so I erred on discretion. But let me state categorically that ChrisGo is as vital to the history of this group as Kevin or Doug or Lou or Paul or anyone else: He will always be our voice for “Unchained Melody” or “Goodnight Sweetheart”. As the kids say: Big mad props to ChrisGo!

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