The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
HousaTonics to hold community singalong
The HousaTonics Barbershop Chorus will host the first Northwest Corner Community Singalong on May 12 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Salisbury Congregational Church.
Wine, cheese and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Director Donald Sosin and his wife, singer Joanna Seaton, will lead the singalong with favorites from Broadway, the American Songbook, the Beatles, folk songs and special requests. The lyrics will be projected on a big screen. The HousaTonics will entertain with some new music and a few oldies. Tickets are $20.
This is the only HousaTonics event this spring in the area. To reserve seats, or for information, send an email with “Singalong” in the subject to farmhouse41@comcast.net.
The HousaTonics Barbershop Chorus, founded in 1985, has been part of the popular music scene in the Northwest Corner since its founding in 1985.
With concerts of familiar songs mixed with more recent hits, and “Serenade Suppers,” at the Salisbury School, it has an appeal across generations. Sosin and Seaton have performed all over the U.S. and Europe, at the homes of Michael Douglas, Leonard Bernstein and other lumi-
naries.
They have performed their silent film music and songs at major film festivals — New York, Telluride, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, TriBeCa, Denver, Virginia, and Newport — as well as MoMA, BAM, MFA Boston, the Berlin Filmmuseum, and Moscow’s prestigious Lumière Gallery. They are favorite guest artists at the National Gallery and at Italy’s annual silent film retrospectives in Bologna and Pordenone. In 2015, they appeared at the largest film and music festival in Asia, the Jecheon International Film Festival in South Korea. In 2016, Donald’s score for the 1916 Sherlock Holmes was premiered by the Odessa Opera Orchestra on the historic Potemkin steps, with 15,000 spectators attending. Sosin and Seaton have performed many times at Yale University, as well as Harvard, Brown and Emory universities, and created scores for more than 60 silent film DVDs on the Criterion, KinoLorber and Milestone labels.