Mark Hale: Musical Master
Why some bet against him ever winning gold—and why he is stopping at four
Shortly after the turn of the Millennium, Mark Hale loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly (Hills, that is!). Swimmin’ pools, movie stars. And while his culture shock in relocating from Kentucky to Cali might not have been as extreme as the Clampetts, it was probably pretty close. Go ahead and add to this geographical adjustment the dramatic difference in chorus cultures between a small chorus like the Louisville Times, which Mark largely molded in his own image, and a large chorus like the Masters of Harmony, already firmly established, and one has to wonder what would possess a man to pack up his belongings and leave friends and family behind to travel more than 2,000 miles away to the glitz, glamour, and traffic of Southern California. (Full story from The Harmonizer, May/June 2012)
