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Six in the City from University of California, Berkeley sings September/Dance to the Music and took second place at the International
Championship of Collegiate A Cappella quarterfinals held at South Eugene High School on Saturday night.
Divisi: Singers to compete in Stanford finals
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“We were kind of surprised be
cause four-sixths of the competitors
were from the same area,” Davis
said, suggesting that Yreka, Calif.,
would have been a more geographi
cally equitable location for
the event.
The event’s venue, South Eugene
High School, is the alma mater of
Divisi music director Lisa Forkish.
South Eugene High School’s jazz
choir performed while the ICCA
judges deliberated.
“We were trying to find a venue
that was bigger than Beall,” Forkish
said. “South held the most people,
and I was familiar with it.”
On The Rocks, Divisi’s male
counterpart at the University, em
ceed the event and provided musi
cal entertainment between groups.
On The Rocks has competed in
events similar to the ICCA competi
tion, but the group is taking this
year off from competing to work on
a compact disc that will be released
either at the end of this school year
or early next year.
“It’s tough because when you do
a competition, you spend two
months focusing on three songs,”
On The Rocks member Jeremy
Davidson said.
Divisi went into the competition
hopeful and confident, member
Suzie Day said.
“You never know what will hap
pen because the three judges — it’s
just three people’s opinions,” Divisi
member Joanne Caputo said.
Groups at the competition were
judged on blend, arrangements,
rhythmic accuracy, interpretation,
intonation, solos, dynamics, visual
effects and stage presence.
“We’re constantly critiquing our
selves, so I do think we come with
a full package,” Forkish said. She
added that Divisi’s choreography
has become stronger over the
past year.
Divisi member Erica Barkett, who
is also the captain of the Universi
ty’s dance team, is in charge of the
group’s choreography.
“Teaching singers to dance is dif
ferent from teaching dancers to
dance,” she said, explaining that the
dance movements accompanying
songs are smaller and more con
fined than most but are still an im
portant part of the Divisi package.
“It makes it visually appealing, so
there’s something to go along with
the singing,” Barkett said. “It gives
the singers energy. ”
Divisi won awards for outstanding
choreography, outstanding arrange
ment for Sarah Klein’s adaptation of
the Joni Mitchell song “Woodstock”
and outstanding solo by Evynne
Smith for the same song.
Divisi also performed original
arrangements of “Walking on Bro
ken Glass” by Annie Lennox and
“Yeah!” by Usher.
Many of the groups at the compe
tition worked with material outside
the spectrum of traditional a cappel
la music. “Yeah!,” a rap song Smith
arranged for Divisi, was innovative
for the group.
“It’s a fun song,” Divisi member
Megan McCornack said. “It’s differ
ent from anything else we sing.”
Outspoken opened the show with
a cover of “Don’t Whiz on the Elec
tric Fence” from “The Ren and
Stimpy Show.”
“It’s a really tight song for us,”
Outspoken member Jacob LaCombe
said. “We decided to go with it,
have a little fun. We knew it wasn’t
going to be copied.”
Divisi will be commuting by van
to the semifinals at Stanford this
coming Friday. On all other Fridays
they perform free concerts in the
EMU Amphitheater at 4 p.m.
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