From the E-Mailbag…

Just got this in from Don Roemer, who's with the Ambassadors of Harmony…

As a long time member of the Ambassadors of Harmony chorus, I thank you on the behalf of all the Ambassadors for including our performances on your blog.

One quick correction, above the La Mancha video you identify us as the Masters of Harmony rather than the Ambassadors of Harmony. There is, by the way, a very good chorus in California with that other name.

The "76 Trombones" was one of two songs we did at the 2009 Barbershop Convention at the Honda Center in Anaheim in early July. We won the contest with a record high score and beat a chorus from Texas which had not lost a competition in thirty years.

If you like, you can learn more about us at www.aoh.org. Thanks again!

Thanks, Don, and my apologies for the name confusion. As the kind of singer who couldn't join in the National Anthem at a baseball game without throwing the entire performance off-key, I have only admiration for the talents and obvious dedication of a group like yours. Someone else posted a link to mine and headlined it, "A four minute smile from Mark Evanier." That's a great way of putting it except, of course, that I deserve little credit for passing it on.