Have you ever wanted to cross a fast moving stream but there was neither boat nor bridge? That\u2019s what those who are wheelchair bound experience just about every day. Owego\u2019s Coburn Free Library is a striking physical structure – first opened in 1912 – with wonderful resources for the community, but it is not handicap accessible. <\/p>\n
On Saturday, April 1, the Valley Harmony will present \u201cRise Up and Sing\u201d at St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church, located at 117 Main St. in Owego, at 7 p.m. Joining Valley Harmony will be mezzo soprano Kathy Starks from Johnson City; Patricia O\u2019Connell from Owego, French horn; and Katie Schulthies of Binghamton, piano.<\/p>\n
Proceeds from the free will offering taken at the concert and from the advertisements placed in the concert program by generous Owego businesses will be shared between the Coburn Free Library Elevator Fund and St. Paul\u2019s Building Fund.<\/p>\n
If you like 60\u2019s music, Valley Harmony will serenade you with such favorites as \u201cHooked on a Feeling\u201d and \u201c(Sittin\u2019 on) The Dock of the Bay.\u201d Want something older? How about \u201cWhat\u2019ll I Do?\u201d or \u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d? Valley Harmony will even give you something very new, like Ola Gjeilo\u2019s \u201cUbi Caritas\u201d (2009) and Pentatonix\u2019 \u201cRun to You\u201d (2013). <\/p>\n
Providing even more variety, Kathy Starks, accompanied by Katie Schulthies on piano, will sing a few show tunes including \u201cI Dreamed a Dream\u201d from Les Miserables<\/i> and \u201cAdelaide\u2019s Lament\u201d from Guys and Dolls<\/i>. Patricia O\u2019Connell will tap into the classical scene with Vasily Kalinnikov\u2019s \u201cChanson Triste\u201d and Rossini\u2019s \u201cLanguir per una Bella\u201d from L\u2019 Italiana in Algeri<\/i>. And Katie Schulthies won\u2019t let you leave without hearing a little ragtime, like Scott Joplin\u2019s \u201cSolace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Valley Harmony is an all male a cappella quartet founded by George Lohmann in 2007. Mike Sheldon (Berkshire) sings tenor, Randy Kerr (Newark Valley) and J. Ladd Yost (Nichols) alternate baritone and tenor, and Lohmann (Berkshire) sings bass. <\/p>\n
Don\u2019t think of them as just a barbershop quartet, because besides singing that sort of music they sing pop, oldies, show tunes, sacred, gospel and classical. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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