Keepsake - 1991 International Quartet Quarterfinal

Keepsake, from Tampa, FL, took home the silver medal from the 1991 Int'l Quartet Contest in Louisville, KY. They won the following year.

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[jonathan1234911]

2:10!! :D :D

TONY DE ROSA IS A GOD!

[strongbad635]

@Sylvanas590 It was a relatively easy transition. Although sevenths aren't counted anymore, they still factor into the holistic Music score. A song with fewer sevenths has less potential for big time ring and consonance, and so it's more difficult to score high with marginal songs and easier to score high with seventh-heavy tunes. SAI hasn't counted seventh officially for decades now.

[Sylvanas590]

@strongbad635 Has the decision to not count 7ths been met with controversy? Isn't that the essence of the style?

[strongbad635]

@Sylvanas590 There used to be a 4-category system: Sound, Interp, Stage Presence, and Arrangement. The first three of those were scored on the now-familiar 0-100 scale. The arrangement judge could award up to 25 points or could rescind up to 25 points from the score per song. So Keepsake actually receive a NEGATIVE 40 pts for their final round. After the BHS chaged to the 3-category system we have today, the 33% rules stayed, but was eliminated last year. They don't count 7ths anymore.

[Sylvanas590]

@strongbad635 So just to clarify (17 year-old here who's new to how things are judged); there are 4 judges for each category, and they didn't get ANY points in the arrangement category because Once Upon A Time fell 4% below the required number of dominant 7ths? Is this still a rule, that each song needs to have 33% dominant 7th chords? I for some reason thought the number was closer to 60%.

[strongbad635]

@Sylvanas590 Once Upon A Time has less than 33% dominant 7th chords (in the range of 28-29%). Under the old 4-category system, with Sound, Interp, Stage Presence and Arrangement, the ARR judge awarded up to 25 points per song or a negative value of up to 25 points. That song took a -25 hit. Their finals sets totalled a loss of 40 points in the ARR category, and they lost by exactly 40 points to The Ritz. They would've won a tie-breaker on the backs of their higher Sound score.

[Sylvanas590]

I barely recognize Joe.

Early 90s Tony looks like Dave Coulier!

[Sylvanas590]

@strongbad635 What was the penalty for?

[seventieschildexcess]

mighty awesome Joe

[strongbad635]

The song they got hammered on was "Once Upon A Time." They would have won if not for the penalty.

[megsdadj1]

Should have won this year. What songs did they do in the finals that hurt them with a -15 and a -25 in arrangement scores??