Valley Harmony is back in the \u201csing\u201d of things. Their 12th annual community concert is titled simply \u201cLove Songs,\u201d and will be performed at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 16 at the Newark Valley United Church of Christ, located at 32 S. Main St. in Newark Valley. The theme springs from a desire to just do something that will gladden everyone\u2019s heart, performers and audience alike. <\/p>\n
The a cappella<\/i> quartet encountered one small problem. Their original list of songs had to be cut significantly so that the audience could go home before midnight. Even after culling, the variety still remained, including doo wop, pop rock, spirituals, barbershop, Broadway hits, and even classical. <\/p>\n
Valley Harmony will make sure the audience is awake by starting with a rousing \u201cAt the Round Earth\u2019s Imagined Corners\u201d to begin their set, labeled \u201cSacred Love.\u201d \u201cSwing Down Chariot,\u201d a spiritual made popular by Elvis Presley in 1960, is included in that group along with a tribute to Ukraine, titled \u201cUkrainian Alleluia.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was also no problem finding love songs from Broadway musicals. \u201cMaria\u201d from Westside Story<\/i> and \u201cTill There Was You\u201d from The Music Man<\/i> couldn\u2019t be avoided. <\/p>\n
Speaking of Elvis Presley, his 1961 hit \u201cCan\u2019t Help Falling in Love\u201d is still popular today, and Valley Harmony is planning to sing the Pentatonix version of it as part of their \u201cFalling in Love\u201d set. The 1967 hit by The Turtles, \u201cHappy Together,\u201d and Nat King Cole\u2019s 1956 hit, \u201cWhen I Fall in Love,\u201d could not be left out of this set.<\/p>\n
The songs of the last set, \u201cYoung Love,\u201d range from the 1924 barbershop tune \u201cConey Island Baby,\u201d touch the sixties with \u201cUnder the Boardwalk,\u201d and wrap up with two from the 21st century, \u201cAll of Me\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Yours.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHappy Together\u201d and Elvis\u2019 \u201cCan\u2019t Help Falling in Love\u201d will also be performed, but using the arrangement written for the Pentatonix.<\/p>\n
Three guest musicians will join Valley Harmony in provided entertainment for the concert. Woodwindist Laurie Holdridge (Johnson City) is a longtime partner in this endeavor, playing recorder, clarinet and saxophone; and flutist Anne Austin (Endwell) is also back by popular demand. New to the gang is Rhonda Moulton (Berkshire) on piano. One of the songs all three will do together is \u201cThe Snow Begins to Fall.\u201d <\/p>\n
Valley Harmony includes Mike Sheldon (Berkshire) singing tenor, George Lohmann (Berkshire) singing bass, and Randy Kerr (Newark Valley) and J. Ladd Yost (Nichols) alternating baritone and tenor. This all-male quartet has done countless engagements throughout the Southern Tier since their founding in 2007, including church services and church and secular events in Newark Valley, Berkshire, Richford, Waverly, Owego, Apalachin, Endicott, Vestal, Candor, Spencer, Ithaca, Greene, Binghamton and in Athens, Pa. <\/span><\/p>\n Their repertoire, as you might gather from the songs mentioned above, consists of all sorts of a cappella<\/i> music. They enjoy singing folk songs, spirituals, barbershop, swing, pop, rock, rhythm and blues, show tunes, sacred, and even classical music. <\/p>\n A free will offering will be taken. Concert proceeds will benefit outreach programming at the Newark Valley United Church of Christ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valley Harmony is back in the \u201csing\u201d of things. Their 12th annual community concert is titled simply \u201cLove Songs,\u201d and will be performed at 7…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":84656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-happening"],"yoast_head":"\n