Pentatonix
Harmonic convergence on a spring night.
By the time the hippest, most supremely talented a cappella group around strolled onto the Milligan stage Friday night, everyone in the packed house already felt an electric connection to the five singers: Pentatonix. Their YouTube video of “Someone that I Used to Know” had opened Assembly on Wednesday, and for much of the week, you could hear other pieces pounding the walls of the Fitness Center and pouring out of dorm windows flung open to the warm spring air. Better still, two hours before showtime, a dozen or more students had gotten up close during a vocal workshop the group had hosted, learning a little something about their training and backgrounds and hearing how contemporary harmony, electronic music, garage house, and dubstep converge in the ensemble’s unique sound. (That the group--Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado, and Kevin Olusola--had been crowned winner of ABC’s The Sing Off was of less consequence than that they could obviously rock Madison Square Garden ten ways to Sunday.)
No surprise, then, when senior singers Shane Griffee and Eva Batalla-Mann could hardly get a “Help us welcome...” out before the waiting audience erupted in raucous applause and cheers. After more than an hour of singing their hearts out, dancing their shoes down, and riffing with cool collegiality in between numbers, the group had secured fans-for-life, many of whom mobbed the quintet backstage before letting them pack up and head back to LA.
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No surprise, then, when senior singers Shane Griffee and Eva Batalla-Mann could hardly get a “Help us welcome...” out before the waiting audience erupted in raucous applause and cheers. After more than an hour of singing their hearts out, dancing their shoes down, and riffing with cool collegiality in between numbers, the group had secured fans-for-life, many of whom mobbed the quintet backstage before letting them pack up and head back to LA.
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