My formal chorus has (in the past, before my time) sung Barbershop stuff - we still have the arrangements in the archive to prove it... it made a change from Mozart's Requiem and the Messiah oratorio.

It's seen as a mostly male domain though, and that's a problem when you're a girl.

I love singing in formal harmony styles to make a big noise, but I also love making my own harmonies and descants in quieter situations. I guess all the Barbershop I've been exposed to has been too AR for my liking - very tight and restricted.

As a style, I like to listen to about 10-15 minutes of it, then I get bored. But I'm like that will most music. Look at my CD player or MP3 and you'll find several different styles of music (classical to heavy metal to folk ballads...) and they're all on shuffle.

LTS