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It is, by invention, a musically ample eve attached to portion No Longer Alone Ministries, an formation in help to individuals who battle with genial unwellness.

And implemental to delivery its sounds of hautbois, clarinet, viola, vox and pianoforte to a local hearing is Dr. Neal S. Harnly. The medico who practices at Norlanco Family Medicine in Elizabethtown has organised the welfare concert for 10 of its 12 years.

And it is a accommodation organization: Harnly is a composer and Juilliard-trained player who testament nowadays “Resounding Joy: An Evening of Music for Instrument and Voice” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, at the Lancaster Mennonite School Fine Arts Center, 2178 Lincoln Highway East.

The eve, touting the plant of Karl Reinecke and Georg Philipp Telemann, among others, bequeath lineament award-winning French oboist the Rev. Jean-Christophe Robert; clarinettist and medicine pedagogue David Hoagland; and New York Philharmonic violist Dr. Peter Kenote.

Harnly is pianist for the platform, which bequeath besides admit treble Rebeka Kenote AuYeung, the violist’s girl. He has too staged trey spirituals and “Amazing Grace” for the eventide.

Hometown: Manheim.

Family: Single. One sustenance sis. Two nieces and two nephews. Two aged felid brothers that percentage my abode.

Educational desktop: Manheim Central High School Class of 1977; Bachelor of Music level in penning from The Juilliard School 1981; Doctor of Medicine from Temple University School of Medicine, 1990; residence in class practise at Lancaster General Hospital, 1990-93.

When I was development up, I cherished to be: An designer.

I distinct to turn a dr. because: I went on a checkup missions misstep to Honduras as a voluntary with the Christian Medical and Dental Society in 1983 and completed I was meant to be a md.

I am convoluted in No Longer Alone Ministries because: It is a knock-down ministry to mass with genial unwellness and their families that fills a motivation not met elsewhere in the wellness tending organization.

What I’d ilk masses to realize roughly genial sickness: Since it is a precondition no unlike from others that I goody in the post — ie, diabetes or hypertension — it should not extend the sociable mark ofttimes affiliated to it. Mental sickness can be toughened or managed efficaciously with the right resources.

What I’d care masses to acknowledge approximately the Aug. 6 concert: Rebekah Kenote AuYeung, treble! She has a beautiful, first vox that bequeath wow the hearing!

Music has unnatural the way I practise medication by: Providing a counterpoise in my sprightliness that helps counterpunch the strain of a busybodied place praxis.

My virtually late constitution is: “The Lost Son,” a 40-minute cantata for children’s consort and orchestra based on the scriptural storey of The Prodigal Son with libretto by local source/composer Alisa Bair. It was licenced by Soli Deo Gloria, of Chicago, and volition be premiered in November by the Indianapolis Children’s Choir below the focusing of Henry Leck.

My predilection in euphony runs to: All forms of definitive medicine … to jazz and definitive careen. I care near anything that’s through swell.

A player I’d lovemaking to encounter: Andre Previn (composer, pianist). His flair has straddled the graeco-roman and democratic worlds of euphony in a way few let through.

Favorite composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) for the ghostlike and excited comprehensiveness of his symphonies and Bela Bartok (1881-1945) for his rhythmical thrust and nonrational train penning.

People mightiness be surprised to cognise that I: Rarely hear to euphony at plate or in the car. I do near of my hearing when run on the [Conewago] tag or at concerts.

A leger I’d urge: I mustiness lean quatern! “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations,” by David Landes; “Jude the Obscure,” by Thomas Hardy; “The Jesus I Never Knew,” by Philip Yancey; and “Undaunted Courage,” by Stephen Ambrose.

What’s on my iPod: A all-inclusive diverseness of ’60s and ’70s sway … and Bartok.

My front-runner holiday billet: Idaho.

My over-the-counter interests admit: Travel, humanity story, maps, old movies and dangling out with friends on weekends.

I ne’er forget habitation without: My cadre sound and notecase!

The outdo advice I always standard: From my begetter a few years ago … “Don’t delay until you adjourn to do the things you need to do in spirit.”

What makes me grinning: Some of the awful animation stories my aged patients percentage with me. They birth so practically to offering our humankind.

Favorite restaurants: Houlihan’s in Hershey and The Belvedere in Lancaster.

For exercising I: Run on the train conscientiously and road-bike when I can.

A pet peeve: Drivers who don’t respectfulness rockers on the route.

My deepest promise: That in roughly diminished way my biography would contemplate the bang of God shown to me in his son.

There is no bearing for the Friday concert, which is outdoors to the world. An oblation bequeath be standard. For more entropy most the case, cry No Longer Alone Ministries at 390-4891.

Barbara Hough Roda is Managing Editor of the Sunday News. Contact her at broda@lnpnews.com or 481-7335.

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