MUSIC SERVICES by Verlon

Invite Verlon to Serenade You and Your Guests on One of her Elegant Harps for your next Special Event!

I. Musical Services

Verlon is available to play for Weddings, Receptions, Corporate Functions, Bridal Luncheons, Baby Christenings, Store Grand Openings, All size Dinner Parties, Birthday / Anniversary Celebrations and Church Concerts, where she shares her moving testimony of how she began playing the harp.

Her repertoire Includes:

• Traditional Wedding Music
• Jewish Wedding Music
• Classical
• Country
• Disney Themes
• Contemporary Pop & Jazz Standards
• Contemporary Christian / Sacred
• Broadway & Movie Themes
• Celtic Folk
• Oldie Goldies & Big Band Themes
• Latin, Italian, Irish Music

Verlon can accommodate you with one of her beautiful harps - all with battery operated amplification.

Duos and Ensembles are available (harp/violin; harp/flute; harp/piano; harp/voice; Trios and Quartets with violin, viola, cello, & bass.)

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II. Wedding Musical Services

Ceremony Music Includes:

PRELUDE MUSIC
Up to 30 minutes prior to the Ceremony beginning Favorite Music includes: Classical – Air (Water Music Suite), Rondeau, Sheep May Safely Graze, The Four Seasons, Ave Maria

MOTHER'S /GRANDPARENT'S SEATING
You may wish to choose a special selection for the seating of the mothers and grandparents, which occurs just before the start of the ceremony. You might want to have that extra special touch by having the music be a special request that is a favorite of those being seated. Some favorites include: Sunrise, Sunset; My Cup Runneth Over; Memory; You Raise Me Up.

BRIDAL PARTY PROCESSIONAL
Your ceremony officially begins when the officiant and the groom approach the altar. The bridesmaids (along with the groomsmen who may join them) enter while this selection continues. Traditionally, this is a piece that is a majestic piece played at a pace that is easy to walk to. However, you may choose to create a different ambience, perhaps with something gentle or contemplative. No matter what, the selection should flow at an easy walking tempo. This piece ends when the entire wedding party reaches the altar.

Bride's Favorites: Canon in D (Pachelbel), Hymne (Vangelis), Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J. S. Bach), Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke/Purcell)

THE BRIDE'S PROCESSIONAL
Traditionally, the bride enters to fanfare music, such as the well-known "Here Comes the Bride" (Wedding March) that announces her arrival. Other music may be chosen to suit the bride's taste, as long as it sounds good played at an easy walking pace. This piece ends when the bride reaches the altar. When the wedding party is small, the bride may elect to enter to the same piece as the maid or matron of honor.

Bride's Favorites: Canon in D (Pachelbel), Traditional Wedding March (Wagner), Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke/Purcell), Hymne (Vangelis), a Favorite Romantic Love Song (ie. Marry Me)

CEREMONY MUSIC
Sometimes special music is added during the ceremony that adds special meaning to the bride and groom, such as the lighting of the Unity Candle , Sand Ceremony and/or Communion for just bride & groom or for the entire congregation. Keep in mind that this additional music will lengthen the ceremony and the selection ought to be shorter (Just how long can you look adoringly into each other's eyes!)

Wedding Couple's Favorites: Blest Be the Tie that Binds, In This Very Room, O Perfect Love, The Prayer ( as sung by Celine Dion), The Lord's Prayer, Sweet Hour of Prayer, (Communion Favorites include As the Deer, Be Thou My Vision, Holy Ground, How Beautiful – Twila Paris, Shine on Us – Michael W. Smith, Shout to the Lord – Darlene Zscheck.)

WEDDING PARTY RECESSIONAL
Traditionally, the bride and groom, now husband and wife, leave the altar to the tune of a triumphant or joyful, quick paced piece. The wedding party recesses out immediately after to the same selection. However, you may choose to create a different ambience for your recessional – perhaps something flowing and romantic.

Wedding Couple's Favorites: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Beethoven), Wedding March (Mendelssohn), Trumpet Tune (Purcell); All I Ask of You (Webber)

POST-NUPTIAL
As guests leave the ceremonial area, lively music accompanies their exit. As with Pre-Ceremony music, if you do not have particular requests, choose the category of selections you would like performed.

Wedding Couple's Favorites: Alleluia (Sound of Music); Hornpipe; Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee; Morning has Broken; Trumpet Tune

OUTDOORS
Since outdoor weddings are quite popular in Florida (even though it can be very hot in the summer months), music reminiscent of the outdoors adds special meaning to the ceremony.

Some of Bride's Favorites: Edelweiss (Sound of Music); For the Beauty of the Earth; In the Garden; Morning has Broken; Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Sunrise Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof); The Rose, What a Wonderful World

Sample Wedding Repertoire (Audio)

• Air "Water Music Suite"
• All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera)
• Ave Maria – Gounod / Schubert
• Rondeau – Mouret (Theme from Masterpiece Theatre)
• My Cup Runneth Over
• You Raise Me Up
• Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" (Here Comes the Bride) – Wagner Traditional Processional
• Trumpet Voluntary – Clark ; Processional
• Bridal March from "A Midsummer's Night Dream" – Mendelssohn Traditional Recessional
• Trumpet Tune – Purcell; Recessional
• Canon in D – Pachelbel
• Hymne – Vangelis
• Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring – J. S. Bach
• Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (Ode to Joy – Beethoven's Ninth Symphony)
• How Beautiful – Twila Paris
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• Sunrise, Sunset (Fiddler on the Roof)
• The Prayer (as sung by Celine Dion)
• What a Wonderful World
• When I Fall in Love

*If you are unsure of what selections you would like, I will be more than happy to make suggestions to fit your style or theme.

*If you have a song that is not part of my very full repertoire, I will be happy to arrange your song for an additional fee (at least one month advanced notice required)

Possible Wedding Reception Music

• From this Moment
• A Whole New World
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight
• Someone to Watch Over Me
• Wind Beneath My Wings
• Unchained Melody
• Through the Eyes of Love
• Endless Love
• Can't Help Falling in Love
• Till There Was You
• What a W onderful World

* For Frequently asked Questions & Answers please visit Wedding Music Services

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III. Private Harp or Piano Instruction at St. Andrews MUSIC CONSERVATORY or her Winter Springs home studio

Verlon has been a private piano instructor for more than three decades. Her strong music background and caring teaching manner make her a teacher students study with at length. She places strong emphasis on excellent music reading, rhythm and theory skills.

Students of all ages from childhood to adults are finding a strong desire to play the harp today. Verlon's students learn solid French technique and are classically trained. Her students have performed in talent competitions, annual recitals, large harp ensembles and some have gone on to study harp on the college level.

Verlon has been an adjudicator for Florida Federation of Music Clubs for many years in both piano and most recently in harp. For more than 25 years, her students have been awarded Superior ratings and compete on the State level.

Length of lessons include:

• 30 minutes
• 45 minutes
• 1 hour*

* All harp lessons are 1 hour in length to develop solid technique
* All lessons are weekly

Inquire about Harp Rentals and how to purchase a harp

To discuss private instruction, please use the CONTACT FORM or Call 407-831-3582.

* For more information please visit: Harp & Piano Lessons by Verlon

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IV. Certified Music Practitioner (CMP) & Hospital Ministry

"Although healing is not synonymous with curing, clinical research has shown that live acoustic music played for the sick produces a healing environment."

• Premie babies gain weight faster, use oxygen more efficiently with shorter hospital stays in ICU
• Stabilizes heartrate and respiration
• Relief of stress
• Aids in digestion
• Reduces the need for pain relievers
• Lowers blood pressure
• Increases production of endorphines, thus reducing pain
• Increases salivary immunoglobulin which speeds healing

Verlon's harp music brings hope, comfort and peace to patients in hospice care, retirement, nursing and assisted living facilities, and hospitals. In addition to playing her therapy harp in patient's rooms providing special therapeutic music for each patient, her soothing harp music also helps relieve stress for hospital staff when playing in the hallways of the medical departments. Playing weekly for patient's, people's faces light up when they see Verlon coming with her therapy harp, knowing they are in for a treat that day! With over four hours of memorized music, she is well trained to give complete specialized care to each listener.

As an experienced CMP, her specialized training enhances each patient's care, whether playing for Mom's in Labor/Delivery, ICU patients, Palliative care, Pre-op and Recovery, Emergency Room, Oncology or patients recovering from Surgery.

Her work as a trained therapeutic harpist touching the lives of patients and families has been notated in news articles circulated throughout the U.S.

Verlon has been employed through Orlando Health as a Healing Artist Specialist for over ten years and currently plays at South Seminole Hospital in Longwood, Fl. and previously at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Lucerne Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Hospital. She also plays for Hospice.

V. Harp Conference Workshops

Teaching is a gift Verlon has enjoyed for over 35 years and has taught special harp workshops at various harp conferences for the past seven years. Because of her many years of teaching expertise, she loves to relate practical information suitable for the harp or piano.

For more information and a list of workshops please visit: Harp Conference Workshops

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CALL TODAY TO INQUIRE ABOUT VERLON'S SERVICES TO MINISTER TO YOUR LOVED ONE.

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Client Comments/Testimonials:

Comments from CD being played in gift shops

Verlon's CD's are played and sold in fine home decorator shops, Hallmark as well as hospital gift shops locally and outside Florida.

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