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

The biggest project of this year was the cd, which started production in January under the working title 'Flaming Avocados in Purgatory.' This was the first cd to be recorded with a professional recording engineer, Bill Hare, the guardian angel of Stanford A Cappella recordings. This cd featured the arrangements from the last two years, such as Gone, Rhythm of Love, and Down Under, plus old Harmonics favorites Walking on Broken Glass and December 1963, that were recorded by the previous year's group. After long discussion, the title Escalator Music was chosen and a tracklist was agreed upon. This CD went on to great fame and fortune, including a CARA nomination for best co-ed CD, a track, Four Brothers, on the BOCA '98 compilation CD, and a positive RARB review.

Spring show, this year in Annenberg Auditorium, put an entirely new spin on Harmonics Spring Shows. In addition to the wildly popular spy theme, it had an at least mostly developed plot, complete with our poster model, Will Budreau, as the dashing James Bond, who thwarted the devlish plan of Dr. Evil, director Matthew Kaufman.

At the end of the year, Matthew passed the pitchpipe off to Shannon Pierce, the seventh director of the Harmonics. However, Shannon was the only woman returning, and the Harmonics needed a large incoming class to fill out the group the next year. In addition, the Harmonics bid farewell to 6-year member and founder Bob Lantz. While this is not as drastic as the division between '93-'94 and '94-'95, due to changes in personnel and repetoire, auditions '97 may have started the third era in Harmonics history.