SVCB Valentine Pops Movie-Theme Concert Feb 7

COBLESKILL – Conductor Samantha Baldwin has scheduled the Schoharie Valley Concert Band (SVCB) Valentine Pops Concert for Friday, February 7th at 7PM in the Cobleskill-Richmondville High School Auditorium, with a concert snow date of Saturday, February 8th at 7PM.  Students are admitted free and the performance is open to the general-public.

Conductor Baldwin has selected music from motion pictures for this year’s Valentine Pops Concert.  “Mancini Magic” is a Jerry Brubaker medley of Henry Mancini works including “Mr. Lucky”, “Moon River”, “Baby Elephant Walk”, “Charade”, “The Pink Panther”, and “Peter Gunn”.  

 “Grease” includes the following Olivia Newton John and John Travolta soundtracks from their 1978 film: “We Go Together”; “Summer Nights”; “Born to Hand Jive”; “Beauty School Dropout”; and “Greased Lightnin’ ”. 

“Disney at the Movies” is a collection of 12 Walt Disney melodies from the following movies: “Song of the South”, “Peter Pan”, “The Jungle Book”, “Pocahontas” “Beauty and the Beast”, “Cinderella”, “Aladdin”, “Mary Poppins”, and “The Lion King” which were written by Disney over almost 50 years from 1945 – 1994.

“Pirates of the Caribbean” is the 2003 Disney movie soundtrack written by Klaus Badelt.  The medley arranged by Ted Ricketts includes “Fog Bound”, “The Medallion Calls”, “To the Pirate’s Cave”, “The Black Pearl”, “One Last Shot”, and “He’s a Pirate”.  

“The Imperial March” is from “Star Wars – the Empire Strikes Back”. John Williams’ Darth Vader music theme has menacing brass and strong rhythms which create the impression of a dark abnormal evil  presence in the world and impending doom.  

John Powell wrote the music for “How to Train Your Dragon”, a series of animated fantasy dragon films based on the writings of British author Cressida Cowell.   This arrangement includes  the “This is Berk” theme from “How to Train Your Dragon -1” and the “Come Back Around” theme from “How to Train Your Dragon –2”.

“The Blues Brothers Revue” arranged by Jay Bocook is a medley of music from  the Blues Brothers concert held to raise $5,000 to pay back taxes to keep their childhood orphanage open before they led the Chicago Police Department on a high-speed chase. The medley includes “I Can’t Turn You Loose”, “Soul Man”, “Soul Finger” and “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”. 

A movie-theme band concert would not be complete without a James Bond film. In the 2012 James Bond film “Skyfall” both the music and the movie portray an older, more physically and emotionally vulnerable Bond, who comes out of retirement to rescue the British secret service.   

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 Sunday, April 27th  3PM Spring Concert will begin on March 6th.  For information on how to join the band, please contact Conductor Samantha Baldwin at svcbconductor@gmail.com.