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1995-1996

The fifth year of the group saw it grow to its largest size ever, 17 members. Auditions brought Katy Hyde and Kristin Strohmeier to join Ryan and Radhika on soprano, the incredibly powerful voice of Fez Abramson and soulful stylings of Natalie Harris joining Zareen and Emma on alto, Loren Cheng on high tenor, Will Budreau on second tenor, and Ben Lipson, the deepest bass in Harmonics history to join Bob. Shortly afterwards, Jonathan Pilat joined as bass/baritone. After fall quarter, Zach Foreman came back from Eastern Europe to sing bass, and Christine Nguyen rejoined as well, moving up to mezzo-soprano.

Spring Tour this year was to the east coast, where we sang with the Penn Pennyloafers, the Princeton Wildcats (who we have since sung with again), Brandeis Spur of the Moment, the Tufts Amalgamates, Boston University Terpsichore, the Wheaton Gentleman Callers, and with Bob's first group, the Dartmouth Dodecaphonics. It was a homecoming of sorts for him. The Harmonics also spent a night on the cold and miserable floor of one (too) small room somewhere in Philadelphia, which has gone down in group folklore as hell night. Folklore is too kind. However, all told Spring Tour was a fabulous success, and exposed the Harmonics to many other styles of a cappella and provided a powerful bonding experience (which led to the extremely popular 'Don't Touch Unless Otherwise Instructed' signs).

The Harmonics also sang with two professional a cappella groups this year. They did a show the House Jacks at CSU Hayward, and sang with M-PACT! in a joint show with Counterpoint in Kresge Auditorium, the day after M-PACT won the 1996 Harmony Sweepstakes... (more on the 95-96 year)