Stambaugh Chorus, Concert Band Team Up for Benefit Performance
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Stambaugh Chorus and Youngstown Area Community Concert Band are teaming up for another fundraiser for Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.
They will present Spring into Giving, a concert featuring a wide-ranging program, at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 2, at the Morley Arts Pavilion, in the Wick Recreation Area of Mill Creek Park, on McCollum Road on the West Side.
It’s the first time the chorus and concert band will present a spring concert. The two entities have teamed up every year since 2011 for their Holiday Concert of Giving at Stambaugh Auditorium to benefit the food bank.
Hae-Jong Lee, director of the chorus and a music professor at Youngstown State University, said Morley Pavilion is “perfect for enjoying the warm weather and beautiful surroundings of Mill Creek Park.”
Food or cash donations will not be collected at the Spring into Giving Concert. Instead, the audience will be able to donate using a QR code that will be provided on the program.
“This collaboration has allowed us to share our music and support a great local charity,” Lee said. “The audiences’ response has been fantastic, with donations steadily increasing. In 2022, we raised over $6,000 [at the Holiday concert].”
Sunday’s concert will feature alternating performances by the chorus and the concert band.
It will open with a combination of the Star-Spangled Banner, accompanied by the chorus, and the Olympic Theme.
The chorus will then perform Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Baba Yetu,” a Swahili version of the Lord’s Prayer in a gospel-African style.
The concert band will follow with “Irish Washerwoman” and “Piccolo Espanol.”
The chorus will perform four movements from Karl Jenkins’ “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace,” accompanied by some YACCB players. The chorus performed the entire “Armed Man” oratorio in April at St. Joseph’s Church in Austintown.
The concert will close with the concert band performing “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
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