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Rich
has made a lifelong "passion" of barbershop harmony and a cappella
music. He is a 35 year member of SPEBSQSA with
activities at the Local, District and International levels. He
has been the Musical Director of four barbershop choruses and
was a founding member of a new barbershop chapter in 1987. He
counts the following as accomplishments he is proud
of:
* He served for three years
on the Faculty of the
premiere school of SPEBSQSA -
Harmony College
* He served for 7 years on the Faculty of the Mid Atlantic
District's annual Harmony College East
* He served for 9 years on the Faculty of the Chapter Officer
Training School
* He revived the Mid
Atlantic
District's Young Men In Harmony Program in 1990.
* He served as the General Chairman for the 1984 MAD Int'l
Preliminary Contest / Convention
* He is a respected coach of both choruses and quartets
*He has conducted
many successful "retreat weekends" for music
and administrative teams.
Rich began his broadcast career in
1965-1967
when he hosted a college radio program called the "APPLAUSE" program at Heidelberg
College in Ohio. This weekly show featured Top-40 music and
discussion about artists and events in the musical
world. From 1966-1967, he worked for WTTF, 1510AM in Tiffin,
Ohio, where he hosted a show called "Swap & Shop",
a two hour show which brought together buyers and sellers who had
things to swap or trade with the buyers who were
looking for the merchandise offered. He even read the local
"Obituaries" for ten minutes at the end of each show.
In 1997, Rich was asked to host radio
program on a public
broadcasting station in Hunterdon County. He
presented "The APPLAUSE Show", reviving the name of his original
college radio show, to the owner of the local station as a weekly
two-hour show.
The first show aired on Tuesday night, April
8, 1997 from 8:00-10:00. After four months,
it was moved to Wednesday
from 10:00-Midnight, and in the fall of 1998, the show was given
a "premier" three hour slot on Thursday.
In January of 2002, the show moved to
it's present home at WVRM 1620 AM
from Upper Montclair, NJ.
Rich, along
with Phil DeBar, has
been honored to be broadcaster for SPEBSQSA for their "Webcasts" of
their annual Convention and
Contest. They hosted the webcasts from Kansas City, Missouri
(2000), Nashville,
Tennessee (2001) Portland, Oregon(2002) and Montreal, Canada 2003.
Rich
lives in East Orange, New Jersey and is single.
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