
P.O. Box 762 Amherst, NH 03031
Our fall semester for 2008 will start
Tuesday, September 9 at 7:30 p.m.
in the Milford Middle School music room.
We'll have a booth at the Amherst Fourth of July
celebration. Be on the common
at 8 a.m. to help set up, or at 9 a.m. to learn some patriotic songs.
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Souhegan Valley Chorus, now in its 29th season, is a community chorus in the Milford-Amherst (New Hampshire) area performing a variety of choral music from pops to light classics under the direction of Jennifer K. Erdody. Membership is open, without audition, to singers from high school age through seniors who enjoy choral music. Fifty people come from towns in and around the Souhegan Valley for the weekly rehearsals which are held on Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. usually in the Milford High School or Middle School (see map below) music room. Two concerts are presented each season--one in December and one in May as well as participating in the Nashua Stroll which takes place the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.

Milford Middle School,
33 Osgood Rd (red
star)
Milford High School, 100 West St (yellow
star)
Unitarian Universalist Church, 20 Elm St,
Milford, NH (green
star)
Milford First Congregational Church, 10
Union St (blue
star)
Milford United Methodist Church, 327 N. River Rd (magenta
star)
see map below
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Open Rehearsals
Our first rehearsal for the Spring 2008 Season begins on Tuesday,
January 8th in the Milford Congregational Church. The first three rehearsalsJanuary
8, 15, and 22are for prospective members who want to
"test the waters" before joining.
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Membership Dues
Dues are per semester and are as follows:
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2008 Sprng Concert
May 3 at 7:30 in the Souhegan High School
Lights
Up On Broadway
Give My Regards to Broadway from Little Johnny Jones
Another Op'nin’, Another Show from Kiss Me Kate
There’s No Business Like Show Business from
Annie Get Your Gun
You’re Just In Love
from Call Me Madam
Walk Him Up- from Purley
Music of The Night from Phantom of the Opera
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom of the
Opera
Memory from Cats
Learn Your Lessons Well from Godspell
I’ve Never Been In Love Before from Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls medley
INTERMISSION
Lida Rose from The
Music Man
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria from The
Sound of Music
Fiddler On the Roof Medley
Soon It's Gonna Rain from The Fantasticks
Seasons of Love from Rent
On My Own from Les Miserables
Bring Him Home from Les Miserables
The Wizard and I from Wicked
What Is This Feeling from Wicked
Popular from Wicked
Defying Gravity from Wicked
Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley
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If in doubt, call or email your Section Leader:
Sopranos - Linda
Jeynes 882-0731
Altos - Jean Desany 673-7302
Tenors - Bob Charbonneau 673-1454
Basses - Dan Wolaver 566-0685
Spring 2008 Rehearsal Schedule (7:30 unless otherwise noted)
| Date |
Place (see map) |
Special Events |
Notes |
| Sept 9 | Milford Middle School | open rehearsal | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Sept 16 | Milford Middle School | open rehearsal | Board mtg. 6:00 |
| Sept 23 | Milford Middle School | open rehearsal | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Sept 30 | Milford Middle School | . | |
| Oct 7 | Milford Middle School | . | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Oct 14 | Milford Middle School | . | Board mtg. 6:30 |
| Oct 21 | Milford Middle School | . | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Oct 28 | Milford Middle School | . | |
| Nov 4 | Milford Middle School | . | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Nov 11 | Milford Middle School | . | Board mtg. 6:30 |
| Nov 18 | Milford Middle School | . | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Nov 25 | Milford Middle School | ||
| Dec 2 | Milford Middle School | . | Valleyaires 6:30 |
| Dec 9 | Milford Middle School | Board mtg. 6:30 | |
| Dec 13 | Souhegan High School | Saturday tech rehearsal | 9:00 - noon |
| Dec 14 | Souhegan High School | Sunday concert | chorus: 6:15, show:7:30 |
| Dec 16 | Granite Square | Singout / Party | 6:45 at Granite Square |
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The Director and the Accompanist
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Jennifer K. Erdody, director, is the choral director at Milford High School in Milford, NH, where she directs the concert and select choruses and teaches voice workshop. Previously she was choral director at Parker Middle School in Chelmsford, MA, where her choirs medaled every year at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors' Association's choral festivals. She is also on the staff of the Souhegan Valley Boys and Girls Club School of Theater Arts, where she is currently music director for the Riverbend iTheater class and was the music director for the spring 2007 production of "Carousel". In the early winter she directs the Mont Vernon Community Messiah Sing, a long-standing choral tradition.
Jenn is a graduate of Boston University, where she studied with
Richard Cassilly. She lives in Milford with her husband and two
children. |
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Laura Kennedy, accompanist, has distinguished herself across the nation as a solo performer, accompanist and chamber musician. She has performed with the Lyric Trio and the Wiedemann Trio, in collaborations with the Florida Symphony Chamber Players and the Fairmount String Quartet, at the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Chamber Music at the Barn, and on Chicagos classical radio station WFMT and National Public Radios Performance Today. Laura has played in recitals with David Perry, Donald McInnes, Lazlo Varga, Brian Lewis, and with oboist, Joseph Robinson, principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic. She also enjoys presenting concerts with her brother, violinist Joseph Scheer, with whom she has recorded two CDs. Laura resides in Milford with her family. Her daughter, Clara, a cellist, is in her second year at the Julliard School. |
Click here to hear a live recording of Laura playing Rachmaninov's Etudes Tableaux op.39 no.1
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Here are the job descriptions for each office.
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| SVC is supported chiefly by member dues and by donations and
advertisements in our concert programs. Also, SVC is a 501-C-3
Not-for-Profit Organization. Listed below are our advertisement
prices. (Size is given in width height
in inches.) Here is the ad letter,
and here is the ad order form.
Submit ads in e-copy (.doc, .pdf, .jpg, or .gif) to Lynn Wolaver ( |
Donations:
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2007 Spring Concert - "Pioneers and
Prairies"
The theme for this concert was the westward expansion of the United States
and the various cultures that contribute to our music and language.
Click here to see pictures from the show.
Listen to "Red River Valley"
Listen to "Sunset"
Concerts recorded by DB Systems.
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