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This incomplete cellphone quality video footage captures one of the final apparitions of our high school male singing group, “The Last Chapter” (to be spoken with an echoing deep voice). Andrea, Ean (piano, unseen in the video), and I were all in our final year of college with this was shot. The song is one that we wrote in high school and was originally intended for four voices.
We started out as Freshmen in high school. We wanted to do the guys group thing but we wanted to do our own way, so we committed to writing all the music we performed. After a year in highschool, a couple insignificant performances, and some slight changes in personel (due to a couple members who moved away), we nailed down during our sophmore year a core group of 4 singers, a pianist, and drummer. We also adopted the name “Last Chapter” given to us by our pianist’s mother who suggested the name for a group of singers who would be seeking to give God’s message during the last chapter of earth’s history.
A fifth singer/musician joined us a year later, and our last 2 years in high school saw dozens of performances and a couple of concerts. In what appeared to be our final performance we sang an original composition accompanied by our high school stringed orchestra during our high school graduation ceremony.
As we all went our separate ways for college, this group was very rarely thought of in my mind. My freshman year was a blast. I joined my college traveling choir, a gospel mass choir, met up with a few other guys who sang and did few performances, made a ton of new friends, and started kicking it hard with this brother named Jesus (He’s really cool, you should get to know Him too).
But the “fat lady” hadn’t finished singing yet. My second year of college saw four members of our group together again at the same university (2 tenors, our baritone, and our pianist). Yet because we were all so busy in our respective fields of study the resurrected Last Chapter didn’t accomplished nearly as much as did its high school incarnation. We did manage, however, to write a few new songs and do a decent number of performances, including a talent show (in which we won 2nd place) and live world-wide broadcast performance on the campus church for a Christian television network.
We continued only to get busier and busier as we neared the end of our college years and a couple of times our “group” dwindled down to a duet and our pianist as was the case in the above clip.
Currently the Last Chapter is awaiting its third resurrection (which may just happen concurrently with the resurrection the dead, 1Thessalonians 4:16).
Click the vintage photo below to see the full size pic.
Back: Dave (bass), Ezra (tenor), Andrea (baritone)
Front: Evert (piano), me (tenor), Joe (1st tenor), Sean (percussion)
