capella group and in choirs and I played the piano and stuff um so I I had some performance experience but it was mostly
capella so he took like the Baseline of um Good Vibrations which is
A capella teaches that better than any other creative form, better than any other participatory sport or whatever that you can possibly find.
A capella is an amazing way to do this.
A capella is just people.
A capella is all about that every time.
Doing a capella stuff that groups weren't really doing, so they couldn't figure out an image for the group.
with a groundbreaking a capella score by a team including the creators of "Pitch Perfect" and "Frozen." "In Transit" takes you on a journey with people hoping
So the a capella genre, I guess, subculture, within mostly college-age people, I would suspect, has a very specific set of groupies,
Do you have a capella groupies?
I had Capello when I was 18 years old, when I was in Italy.
the a capella music you hear today, this is really the man who started it all.
that a capella has to share with the world of business at large.
an incredible a capella group.
When it's a capella, it's just you and your friends.
They will a capella a song about you, about anyone.
I think the best thing about a capella is the fact that you can just stand up and just perform it.
This is-- you're an a capella group, I understand, with the best name in the history of names.
are thousands and thousands of a capella groups around.
They're really more like a capellini.
I was gonna go a capella with it.
And it's the first a capella musical that's ever been on Broadway, so we were groundbreaking in that respect.
But I had never had a capella experience before.
When I first heard was an a capella musical, I thought to myself, "Well, is it ever going to sound full?" I'm so used to doing rock musicals,
We are lucky enough to have a capella legend Deke Sharon with us today.
So when I say a capella, now, a lot of you guys probably think, well, that's just some people singing pop a capella, right?
Fact of the matter is a capella is the oldest music.
Once you're singing in an a capella group, everything that you do exists in context of everyone else.
So when you're in an a capella group, you begin to understand the value of teamwork.
When you sing in an a capella group, you live it.
But in a college a capella group, people are drawn from all of those different circles-- and the theater person, and the goth, et cetera, et cetera.
This feedback loop exists within an a capella rehearsal constantly.
That's doesn't happen in a capella, right?
When you're in an a capella group, you start to get a clear picture of who you are.
And when you're in an a capella group, you learn what that is.
Because that's really what college a capella is all about it.
Given the competitive nature of a capella and taking it to competitions like the ICCAs, and even just the competitive nature of getting into a group
And it was entirely Michael Capellas' own doing for not Googling Peter Abelard to realize that Carly Fiorina who, of course, was the classic scholar knew the history completely
because I did all this weird orchestral stuff and a capella, strange stuff for an accompaniment for an old silent movie.
So I had to do the rest of the song a capella, which was terrifying at the moment, but also there was a moment where I was like, this is the best.
A few of you mentioned that you have no previous a capella experience.
And one of the great lessons also from a capella is that if you do it right-- if you do music right,
One of my favorite things about college a capella is that a college a capella group is the most diverse gathering of people on a college campus.
And that's one of the things that a capella definitely can give you.
And people sing through school and they sing in college a capella groups.
So my vision is that these kind of casual a capella groups will start to spring up in companies all around.
And getting back to that modern sound of a capella because people who haven't listened to old a capella might not realize that it doesn't always
And I wanted to create a March Madness of a capella so people would know about this.
So if you look at all the other styles of a capella, think about doo-wop, think about barbershop-- these were very popular
My great hope for the future of a capella is that these high school and college groups are doing exactly what you're talking about.