P.O. Box 762 Amherst, NH 03031

Great show!  There were about 250 people in the audience, 
and ticket sales for the year met the budget.  Thank you all.

Pictures from the show

We'll have a booth at the Amherst July Fourth parade. Stay tuned for details.

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Souhegan Valley Chorus, now in its 28th 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


 
Open Rehearsals
Our first rehearsal for the Spring 2008 Season begins on Tuesday, January 8th in the Milford Congregational Church.  The first three rehearsals—January 8, 15, and 22—are 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

curtain closed
Give My Regards to Broadway
- quartet
Another Op'nin’, Another Show
- quartet
curtain opens       

There’s No Business Like Show Business-
mic for narrator
West Side Story
curtain closes

You’re Just In Love
- Christy and Judy from Call Me Madam- body mics
curtain opens

Walk Him Up-
mic for Natalie F., Joyce, Brandt, (Linda- may not need one- descant over chorus)
Music of The Night 

curtain closes

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
- Tina body mic
Memory
- Barbara body mic
Learn Your Lessons Well
- Joyce body mic
curtain opens

I’ve Never Been In Love Before
- Veto body mic
Guys and Dolls-
mics Jean Desany, (body mic) Mike, Lee Brant, Dan, Veto, Cyndy
curtain closes

INTERMISSION  

curtain closed
Lida Rose
from The Music Man- Valleyaires 
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria
from The Sound of Music
- Valleyaires 
curtain opens
Fiddler On the Roof Medley-
Rich- body mic (Veto, Diana)
Soon It's Gonna Rain
from The Fantasticks
Seasons of Love
from Rent body mics for Shannon and Judith
On My Own
from Les Miserables body mic for Robin
Bring Him Home
from Les Miserables body mic for Lee
curtain closes

The Wizard and I
- Jenn from Wicked body mic
What Is This Feeling
- Brittaney Fournier and Kerry Turner , from Wicked body mics
Popular
- Annie and Jenn from Wicked body mics
curtain opens

Defying Gravity
from Wicked
body mic for Michelle
Final audience address
(for mic changes, costume changes)
Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley
body mics for Jean Wolf, Barbara, Linda, Carolyn, Christy, Michelle, Joyce, Lee, Brant, Dan, Veto 

curtain closes

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Cancellation Policy
Our rehearsal cancellation policy is that if there is no school, or if school 
is let out early in Milford, we have no rehearsal that evening. 
Rehearsal cancellation will be posted at the top of this Website.

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

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Spring 2008 Rehearsal Schedule (7:30 unless otherwise noted)

Date

  Place (see map)

  Special Events

 Notes

Jan 8   Milford Congr. Church   open rehearsal  
Jan 15   Milford Congr. Church   open rehearsal   Valleyaires 6:30
Jan 22   Milford Congr. Church   open rehearsal   Board mtg. 6:00
Jan 29   Milford Middle School   .   Valleyaires 6:30
Feb 5   Milford Middle School   .   
Feb 12   Milford Middle School   .   Valleyaires 6:30
Feb 19   Milford Middle School   .    Board mtg. 6:30
Feb 26   Milford Methodist Church   .   Valleyaires 6:30
Mar 4   Milford Middle School   .   
Mar 11   Milford Methodist Church   .   Valleyaires 6:30
Mar 18   Milford Middle School     Board mtg. 6:30
Mar 25   Milford Middle School     Valleyaires 6:30
Apr 1   Milford Middle School   .  
Apr 8   Milford Middle School     Valleyaires 6:30
Apr 15   Milford Middle School      Board mtg. 6:30
Apr 22   Milford Middle School    Valleyaires 6:30
Apr 29   Milford Methodist Church     Board mtg. 6:30
May 2   Souhegan High School   Friday tech rehearsal   6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
May 3   Souhegan High School   Saturday concert   chorus: 6:15,  show:7:30
May 6

  Granite Square  

  Singout / Party   6:45 at Granite Square

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The Director and the Accompanist

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.

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 Chicago’s classical radio station WFMT and National Public Radio’s “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 CD’s. 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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2007-2008 SVC Board

Here are the job descriptions for each office.

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Advertising
status

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 (), or in hard copy to Souhegan Valley Chorus, P.O. Box 762, Amherst, NH 03031. Make checks payable to Souhegan Valley Chorus. For more information on advertising in our program, email Lynn Wolaver.

Donations:

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Past Concerts

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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