First Take - Not While I'm Around [from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]

Performed live at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina during the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2022 International Convention
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[@billcorson9015]

Sorry but "proud father" is just too small a statement for Alex Corson and his incredibly talented friends. Every time I listen to these I just get shivers and pound my foot on the floor with excitement. Wow!

[@OliGoodall]

I want it to take like 10 years for these guys to win so we get 10 more contests of hearing Alex Corson go full Goblin Mode in tags please and thank you

[@evanbell]

That would be very ironic, given their name lol

[@squeezemyparticiple]

Tenth Take

[@SillySpaceMonkey]

Hear, hear! *raises glass*

[@mickeygijzen5847]

They should change their name to the amount of takes it takes them (what a sentence) to win international gold.

[@thebl00per]

Being in the audience and feeling the corporate "Holy S**T" as Alex hit the penultimate note, knowing he was gonna full voice the high C, was AMAZING. And then of course, he delivered. Mmm, mmm, good!

[@patrickmcalexanderbbs]

I've never been to space, but if I had to imagine what being shot into space feels like, I think it's probably similar to how listening to this tag feels.

[@QuartetLead]

1:53 that heavenly tenor!

[@romankingbhs]

Delusional how Tony’s monster Ab4 post is the second craziest part of this tag

[@cl3matis]

4:45 you can just hear one guy in the audience shouting YES and I think we're all with him on that. holy mother

[@WilliamAiken]

Anytime I’m ever feeling down I come back to this video and replay 4:38

[@figmo397]

I came here after seeing the badly dubbed off-key version, and what a treat (this one of course, not the off key one)! The arrangement is difficult, and these guys pulled it off with bravado!

[@lozzy8152]

It's a parody account. They give you are talking about dubs a ton of barbershop songs! That's hownj found this as well

[@Barberfrog]

The best tag of the contest. Alex Corson is the most insane tank of a tenor I've heard in recent memory, and the other three members are just as crazy good, this quartet should be illegal.

[@CatholicQuartet]

Ok so basically 3:15 to the end is just legendary.

[@Wahl95]

I just love the audience’s reaction to every performance these guys put on in Charlotte. It sounds like the house went absolutely wild for this quartet.

[@BarbershopChris]

Full voiced C5 = Wow, one of my favorite arrangements done so well! - Had to watch this on repeat multiple times when the rerun showed on the stream!

[@claymiller9707]

this arrangement is RIDICULOUS

[@burgundy6933]

That tenor is gonna be the next Lester Rector

[@WilliamAiken]

The overtone in that last chord is SCREAMING!!

[@jerometheodorepenasdebelen904]

From 4:21 onwards, goosebumps all around. Magnificent arrangement of the piece, and a spectacular performance of the quartet, 🎶 perfection!🎶🎶

[@jimsgraphixmachine6501]

Woh did he just full voice that. It feels like they were sharp too. He only just made it, a C and a bit, full voiced WOOSH! You do not hear that every decade let alone year!

[@crabstuf1469]

I think I've watched this video every day for the past week and every time I have to go back and rewatch the end because that full volume full voiced ending is so incredible.

[@ThatBenKraft]

Holy hell the dynamics and rubato in this are on POINT! These guys are so amazing

[@MasonEubank]

My favorite song of the entire contest.

[@harleypitihira]

Yo the tag is fire but 3:19….lord

[@jeromymcmahon8299]

So glad I got to see this live! Amazing job gents!

[@eboone]

Such a beautiful tag

[@francesdavies7979]

THE TAG 🔥

[@WilliamAiken]

3:19 barberfection

[@jackmacmusic]

Great work!

[@saraalhashimi2650]

Future champs right here! ❤

[@deanbuttholio9657]

I've never heard a song be so sad in a major key.

[@MSA03]

I LEAPED OUT OF MY SEAT

[@silas123781]

arr. Theo Hicks
(if you didn't guess)

[@NessBlock]

A typical Theo Hicks arrangement, love it

[@OneMoreTag]

F'n nailed it.

[@rileybrown3321]

Nicely done1

[@daniboi6641]

CHAMPS DELIVERRRRRRRR

[@overtone55]

Beast mode

[@markmcmillan4233]

1:45

[@MasonEubank]

Arranged by Theo Hicks

[@jacobjohnson2072]

WTF DID I JUST LISTEN TO!!!!!!!!!!!! that ending omg i wish i could do that

[@b_matthew1850]

How

[@makeshiftquartet3071]

I may be alone, but I can’t tell what they’re saying toward the end of the tag.

[@joshgirndt4896]

"I vow I'll not stand down while I'm around"

[@makeshiftquartet3071]

@@joshgirndt4896 ❤😊

[@tiagobernardi934]

Criminals!