Riff Offs and Roses: SU’s First Riff Off and Pitch Perfect Screening
Article by Dexter Hargreaves, University Union Editorial Board
Staff Writer | Photo by Asia Lising
Love was in the air at the University Union collaboration event with SU Acapella: Riff-Offs and Roses. Lines wrapped around Goldstein Auditorium for the first ever A Capella riff off event at SU, followed by a screening of Pitch Perfect, the 2012 classic film that created the iconic style of musical showdown.
The official A Cappella Council at SU(ACCSU) has six groups: The Ottotunes, Oy Capella, Groovestand, Orange Appeal, The Mandarins, and Main Squeeze. They came together to duke it out in an epic battle of classic tunes. The night’s theme: love, of course! Audience members, popcorn in hand, packed the auditorium seats with palpable anticipation.
Photo by Jesse Mair
The official A Cappella Council at SU(ACCSU) has six groups: The Ottotunes, Oy Capella, Groovestand, Orange Appeal, The Mandarins, and Main Squeeze. They came together to duke it out in an epic battle of classic tunes. The night’s theme: love, of course! Audience members, popcorn in hand, packed the auditorium seats with palpable anticipation.
However, in the end, this night was about love. Unlike the film, there were no brutal “cut-offs”, winners, or losers. The real winners were everyone on stage and in the audience who got to be a part of SU aca-history.
Photo by Kyra Rubenstein
Following the performance, the lights dimmed for a special screening of the film Pitch Perfect, put together by University Union’s Cinemas board. This marks the first screening of the semester, and it started with a bang. The film’s themes of community, love, and self-discovery, as well as the iconic a-capella musical sequences, still resonate heavily with audiences even more than ten years after it was released.
Though A Capella groups have been around Syracuse for decades now, Pitch Perfect played a big role in inspiring interest and passion in the musical medium. The film showed that A Capella is about more than just singing, it’s about fostering community and building life-long friendships through music. SU has fully embraced that idea, fostering some of the most tight-knit communities on our campus within its groups.
