Schoharie Valley Concert Band Holiday Concert Saturday, Dec 6 at 7PM at Cobleskill-Richmondville HS

COBLESKILL – The Schoharie Valley Concert Band (SVCB) Holiday Concert performance will be on Saturday, December 6th  at 7 PM in the Cobleskill-Richmondville HS Auditorium. The snow date is Sunday, December 7th at 3PM.  To check the concert inclement weather date/time status go to the SVCB website: https://svconcertband.org or listen for event closures on area radio stations.  

Conductor Baldwin’s program includes many Holiday favorites.  “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is a Larry Clark medley featuring the Broadway tunes “Welcome Christmas” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”.by Albert Hague with lyrics by Dr. Seuss.

“Christmas on Broadway” arranged by John Higgins is a medley of “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas”, March of the Toys”, “Toyland”, “My Favorite Things”, We Need a Little Christmas”, and “God Bless Us Everyone”. 

“C’est Noel! (It is Christmas!)” is a 1985 French-Canadian Yuletide celebration written by Andre Jutras.  It blends original music with familiar favorites “Winter Wonderland”, “Silent Night”, and “Angels We Have Heard on High”.

“Dashing Through the Snow” is based on “Jingle Bells” but Michael Saucedo’s arrangement also intertwines snippets from the German Christmas song “O Tannenbaum” (“O Christmas Tree”),  and “Angels We Have Heard on High”.     

“A Rollicking Hanukkah” is a Randall Standridge 2018 festive quick tempo arrangement of several traditional Hanukkah songs.  

The original traditional English folk song “Greensleeves” was written in 1580.  In 1865 William Chatterton Die added lyrics and today “Greensleeves” is better known as “What Child is This?”.  

John Williams composed the music for both the “Home Alone 1” and Home Alone 2” Christmas movies. “Christmas Star” is one of his pieces from “Home Alone 2”.  

“In the Christmas Mood” will round out the Holiday program. This John Wasson medley is in the style of Glen Miller and includes “A Holly Jolly Christmas”, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, ”Let It Snow”, Frosty the Snowman”, and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”.   

The Schoharie Valley Concert Band is open to area residents including high school and college students.  Thursday rehearsals are held from 7-9:15 PM. in the Cobleskill-Richmondville HS band room.  January 8th is the first rehearsal for the Saturday, February 7th ,7pm Valentine Pops Concert.  To join the band, contact Conductor Samantha Baldwin at svcbconductor@gmail.com.