In addition, Take 6 will give a master class on the African-American tradition of a cappella singing Friday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m. UCI Winifred Smith Hall, near corner of West Peltason Drive and Mesa Road. Free and open to the public. For Irvine World News Gospel music relies for the most part on its message. If you don't pay attention to the lyrics, the music means little to the listener.
Lyrics are paramount.
But Take 6 gets its message across even if one doesn't listen to the lyrics. That's because the songs are instrumentally conceived. It's our instrumental approach to a cappella singing. The Barclay concert will be the Irvine debut for Take 6. The idea for the concert first came up, said Dent, when Take 6 member Alvin Chea was talking with UCI jazz professor Kei Akagi.