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The 1992-1993 school year saw the Harmonics expand from the Octet format they had the year before. Joining returning members Bob Lantz, Brian Kane, Jody Sanders, Miranda Lee and Renee Hoch were two new sopranos, Ryan Henderson and Joanna Salgado, three altos, Amy Weinburg, Audrey Leung, and Jeanie Kim, a new high tenor, Brian Walter, and two new Basses, Frank Tseng and Marcus Jackson. For part of the year, Blake Stephenson also sang bass. Bob was the musical director for the first two years of the group.

The Harmonics of this year started to concentrate more on campus shows including dorm shows, and starting the process of joining the Stanford A Cappella Nation. Harmonics sang in their first on-campus charity show, the Rape Awareness concert, their first Cal/Stanford Big Sing, which featured the performance of a parody of Longest Time (to great appreciation of the audience), and they held the first Spring Show extravaganza in Toyon Lounge. This year's Harmonics concentrated less on jazz standards, and more on the pop covers that were to become the foundation of the Harmonics sound. In particular, Walking on Broken Glass and Seven Bridges Road were featured in the concert sets of that year.

In fact, the year was so successful that twelve of thirteen members decided to remain in the group, only Brian Kane not returning, as he was heading overseas to Stanford-in-Oxford. This was also the first passing of the pitchpipe, as Bob decided he no longer wanted to direct the group (though he would remain as an anchor in the bass section for several more years). He handed leadership of the group to Jody.

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