QUESTIONS:
1- One M-AD Chorus has won the gold medal in international chorus competition once. Name it and year in which it won.
2- Two M-AD Choruses have won the gold medal in international chorus competition twice. Name them and the years in which they won.
3- One M-AD Chorus has won the gold medal in international chorus competition four times. Name it and years in which it won.
4- One quartet from New Jersey has won first place in international quartet competition. Name it and the year in which it won.
5- Two other quartets from the M-AD (alas, neither from NJ) have won first place in international quartet competition. Name them and the years in which they won.\
ANSWERS:
1- The Singing Capital Chorus (Washington, DC) in 1954
2- The Chorus of the Chesapeake (Dundalk, MD) in 1961 and 1971, and the Dapper Dans of Harmony (Livingston, NJ) in 1967 and 1970. Note that the back-to-back M-AD victories in the 1970 and 1971 international chorus contests marks the only time in society history that one district took the gold in two consecutive years.
3- The Harmonizers (Alexandria, VA) in 1986, 1989, 1995 and 1998
4- The Garden State Quartet (1946)
5- The Oriole Four (1970) and the Regents (1974)
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