91-92 :: 92-93 :: 93-94 :: 94-95 :: 95-96 :: 96-97 :: 97-98 :: 98-99 :: 99-00 :: 00-01
01-02 :: 02-03 :: 03-04

1991-1992

In the fall of 1991, the Harmonics were but a gleam in the eye of a man. His name was Bob Lantz. He was a first year grad student at Stanford who had sung in the Dartmouth Dodecaphonics as an undergraduate. He was also, importantly, a bass. He joined University Singers, where he sent around a sign-up list for the Yet-To-Be-Named A Cappella group of Stanford University. Bob wanted to fashion an a cappella Goliath in his own image. However, he was willing to compromise, and therefore was able to attract several singers to his new group.

Membership fluctuated during the first year of the group, but eventually settled to eight. Bob was alone on bass, Brian Kane and Jody Sanders, both freshmen, sang tenor, Miranda Lee, Leslie Dawe, and Vivian Liu on alto, and Charlotte Smith, Renee Hoch, and Karyn Easton on soprano. Other people who sang with the group for part of that year were Lyle "Van" Perrigo, Rob Dickert, and Bijoy Goswami. The '91-'92 Harmonics concentrated mainly on off-campus and community service concerts. The repertoire this year consisted of jazz standards, such as Someone to Watch Over Me and My Romance, traditional A Cappella pieces, like Longest Time by Billy Joel and Under the Boardwalk, and 80s pop covers like Bad Connection by Yaz and Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel.

However, many of the group's members were leaving campus for fame and fortune (or Chile), and so a high priority of the founding members was holding auditions so that singing with the Harmonics could continue for those remaining next year.