1. It's fun. 2. You have total responsibility for your part, not the responsibility for the other guys in the chorus section. 3. You can really ring chords! Yes, choruses can produce overtones, but not the lock and ring of a quartet. 4. You don't have to go through a board of directors or a music committee to decide what you're going to sing. 5. You don't have to go through a board of directors or a music committee to decide for whom you're going to sing. 6. You don't have to go through a board of directors or a music committee for any other darn thing, like moves and such. 7. Yet, if you get good, the chapter will ask you to sing on the show. 8. If you're good enough to sing on the show, your family and friends will be more adoring than if you simply sang in the chorus. 9. Your section has unison sound! : ) 10. You don't have to watch a chorus director. 11. You don't have to pander to a chorus director, or look to him or her for inspiration, and all the other things choruses must do with chorus directors. 12. You learn more about blend and balance from playing a tape recording of your quartet than you could ever from a chorus director. 13. If you also are a member of a chorus, then you make the chorus better for having learned to sing in a quartet. 14. You don't have to be a member of a chorus if that's your preference. 15. You'll be popular with the Singing Valentines Chairman. 16. You'll sing Valentines very well. 17. Resolving decisions about when, where and what the quartet will sing only requires convincing the tenor. : ) 18. The other three singers take delight in the responsibility of keeping the baritone in only three dimensions. : ) 19. You get to choose your quartet costume. (After convincing the tenor, of course.) 20. You get three really good friends. :D :D :D :D :D So why not get together and give it a try for next Prelims???