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."
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?
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.
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?"
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.
Pentatonix, biggest a capella group out there right now.
I thought-- maybe for those-- particularly those of you who are in a capella groups, or maybe you've come because you're interested in music,