Schoharie Valley Concert Band Fall Concert
Sunday, October 20th at 3PM at CR-HS
Conductor Samantha Baldwin has scheduled the Schoharie Valley Concert Band (SVCB) Fall Concert for Sunday, October 20th at 3PM in the Cobleskill-Richmondville High School Auditorium. Students will be admitted free and the performance is open to the general-public.
Conductor Baldwin has selected music from several genres to appeal to the audience. Diane Baltazar will be the featured English horn soloist performing Claude Debussy’s evocative and sensuous piece, ”The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”.
Baltazar is an active oboist/English horn performer with area groups and ensembles and the organist and Director of Music at The Church of Saint Adalbert in Schenectady. Diane composes choral, brass, and band music. The SVCB has performed several of her compositions.
In Randall Standridge’s “The Witching Hour” the clock tower church bells toll on each quarter hour ushering in a new eerie and macabre melody to cast four different musical spells on the audience.
“Amparito Roca” is a well-known Spanish military march named after composer James Texidor’s 12-year-old female piano student Amparito Roca.
“Prairie Dances” by David Solinger is a musical portrait of the cattle regions of Texas complete with rambunctious rhythms of cowboy towns and wide-open plains.
“Down by the Salley Gardens” is Michael Sweeney’s arrangement of an Irish folk melody based on William B. Yates original Irish poem which remembers a lost love.
“Songs of Old Kentucky” by Brant Karrick includes music ranging from traditional Kentucky ballads to barn dance folk songs.
“Duke Ellington Medley for Band” arranged by Caitlin Custer includes swing melodies from “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”, “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me”, “Sophisticated Lady” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing, If It Ain’t Got That Swing”.
Michael Jackson’s Halloween classic, “Thriller” is the best-selling song of all time. Song lyrics for “Thriller” start out “It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s lurking in the dark, under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart” etc.
The Schoharie Valley Concert Band is open to all area residents including high school and college students. Rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings from 7-9:15 PM. in the Cobleskill-Richmondville HS band room. Rehearsals for the Saturday, December 14th 7PM Holiday Concert will begin on October 24th. For information on how to join the band, please contact Conductor Samantha Baldwin at svcbconductor@gmail.com.