New Dimension Chorus

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Keep the Whole World Singing All Day Long! To find out how, visit the New Dimension Chorus on a Thursday evening.

Get Learning tracks from Lyle's Learning Lounge, and spots from the Barbershop Harmony Society.

A Tune By Four is one of the Chorus' top three quartets. Composed of Lead Bill Sandau, Baritone Ray Spinosa, Bass Lance Mangano, and Baritone Jeff Harris playing the part of a Tenor, the quartet made its first appearance at a private performance for the Sons of Norway in Hayward, CA in early 2007.

The New Dimension Chorus is not the only Barbershop Chorus in the San Francisco Bay Area. In fact, there are 18 other chapters within 100 miles of the greater Hayward, CA Metropolitan Area. Some of these choruses fall into our Northern California West/Hawaii division, some are in the Northern California East/Northern Nevada division. If you're looking for more chapters and choruses across the country, visit the Barbershop Harmony Locator Page.

Remember that not all choruses are for all people. Some are in a heavy competition phase, some are in a learing process, others are just a bunch of guys who like to sing the old songs, and the rest are somewhere in the middle. Try one or more of these choruses, and find the one that fits you the best. While we hope that the New Dimension Chorus fits you best, we won't hold you back for want of a better match.

• Voices in Harmony, Sunnyvale, CA
• Devil Mountain Chorus, Walnut Creek, CA
• The Golden Chordsmen. San Mateo County, CA
• Peninsulaires, Palo Alto-Mountain View, CA
• Cable Car Chorus, San Francisco, CA
• Gathering of Bay Area Quartets, San Jose, CA
• Golden Gate, Marin, CA
• The Gold Standard Chorus, Santa Cruz, CA
• Stockton Portsmen, Stockton, CA
• Napa Valley Vintage Chapter, Napa, CA
• West Valley Chorus, Davis, CA
• Wine Country Troubadours, Rohnert Park, CA
• Golden Valley Chorus, Ceres, CA
• Redwood Chordsmen, Santa Rosa, CA
• Capitolaires, Sacramento, CA
• Cypressaires, Monterrey Peninsula, CA
• Folsom Harmony Express, Folsom, CA
• Gold Country Chorus, Sutter Creek, CA

It is a hard fact of our culture today: recreational singing is on the decline. Families no longer gather around the piano for a little pleasure singing. We are rapidly becoming a culture of listeners, rather than singers, content to let others make music for us. SPEBSQSA and the New Dimension Chorus believes it can be otherwise.

Our Society and our Chapter form an ever-growing singing fraternity of men drawn together by their love of the four-part, a cappella, close-harmony style known as barbershop. Our mission is to perpetuate that style by sharing it and our love for it with people of all ages throughout our community and the world; and to be a leader in the cause of preserving and encouraging vocal music as an enjoyable recreational activity and an essential element in one's cultural well-being.

To accomplish this the New Dimension Chorus seeks men who wish to sing harmony in an environment of good fellowship.

The Chapter will be an ever growing fraternity of men excelling in
the Barbershop style of singing, and entertaining, all the while
participating in community performances and outreach.

Mission Goals

• To Develop public appreciation of Barbershop
  Harmony and to teach a cappella vocal music in our
  schools and our communities, through monthly programs to
  include: Performances (paid & free), Charitable Projects, Youth
  Outreach, and Seasonal Performances (i.e., Singing Valentines).
• To Provide an environment that will encourage and
  develop each singer's musical and singing ability, and will also
  make singing and performing an enjoyable experience for both the
  singer and the audience.
• To Increase membership and develop performance
  quartets.
• To Become the recommended Barbershop Chorus by the
  local cities in our area.
• To Serve our current and potential members by
  providing and supporting singing opportunities such as: Competition
  Singing, Chorus Performances, Organized Quarteting, Vocal Craft,
  Coaching, and Music Instruction.

Your next step is to join us for a song Thursday evening at Calvary Lutheran Church, 17200 Via Magdalena, San Lorenzo, CA, beginning July 10, 2008. It's free to try, and you will go home with an even greater understanding of the fraternity and common bond between Barbershoppers.

• New Dimension Chorus Members
• Fremont-Hayward Chapter Board of Directors
• Far Western District of the BHS.
• Barbershop Harmony Society

When most people think "Barbershop," they think of old men in boaters
and armbands warbling some old grampa music. Maybe Meredith
Willson's The Music Man comes to mind. Fifty or
seventy-five years ago, that would probably be an accurate
description. Today, our style of music has grown and evolved into a
higher art form, enjoyed by men and women of all ages.