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Ability to read music not required.

 
The public is cordially invited to attend our 2010 annual spring concert.
(details TBA)

Day and time: Mondays, 7:30 to 9 pm
Place: Community Congregational Church, 221 Columbia Turnpike, East Greenbush
Schedule:  Rehearsals  begin the first Monday after Labor Day for the winter concert (first Sunday in December). Rehearsals for the  spring concert (third Saturday in May) begin the first Monday in January.

Please contact us for additional information or to arrange to sit in at a rehearsal.
Email: Dave Caneen 
dcaneen@nycap.rr.com
Telephone:  Andy  Lavigne at 518-237-0032 or Bob Montgomery at 518-283-3888

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The chorus performs in a wide variety of musical genres, including sacred, classical, spiritual, theater and film, folk, popular, and operetta.  

HHMC was founded in 1968 by Edward VanKampen as the Cordial Greens Men's Glee Club, the name referring to the country club where the group rehearsed and often performed for the first 15 years of its existence.  The name was changed to the Hendrick Hudson Male Chorus in 1984. Previous conductors include Donald Clair, Theodore Grab, Robert Claus, and Bruce Wagner.

An active member of the Mohawk-Hudson Male Chorus Association, the Hendrick Hudson Male Chorus has participated in each of the association's biannual massed concerts. HHMC hosted the massed concert in April 2008 at the world-renowned Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

HHMC is also represented in the Yankee Male Chorus, which performs annually in Vermont and New Hampshire in August.

Hendrick's Crew 
For more than 24 years, small-group singing has been a tradition in the HHMC, in the a cappella style of such well-known college ensembles as the Yale Whiffenpoofs, Cornell Hangovers, and Colgate Thirteen. 

At its inception, the HHMC a cappella group was known as The Trio, which in 1989 expanded to an octet called the Hendrick’s Two-by-Fours. The group has continued to perform in various combinations since then -- as Hendrick’s Six in the early 1990s, Hendrick’s Ten since 2000, and now Hendrick's Crew.  

In addition to performing at each regular HHMC concert, Hendrick’s Crew does guest appearances, having most recently been featured at the Siena Men's basketball game, in January 2007, at the Times Union Center, where HHMC sang the national anthem for an audience of 5,500.

Hendrick’s Crew counts among its varied repertoire such signature pieces as the swing ballad “Perfidia,” the barbershop selection “Lida Rose,” Billy Joel's “The Longest Time,” and the Scottish air “Loch Lomond.” Hendrick’s Crew is available for hire as public concert guest artists or as entertainment at private functions. Contact dcaneen@nycap.rr.com. 

There are currently 31 singing members in our group. The minimum age to join is 14. Annual dues are $20. Ability to read music is not required. New singers may be accepted at any point during a rehearsal period at the discretion of the conductor. David W. Lance has been the conductor of HHMC since 2005, after serving as assistant conductor from 1992. He has also served as director of the Salem United Methodist Church Choir, West Sand Lake, from 1971 to 1982. Mr. Lance holds an A.S. degree from Hudson Valley Community College and a B.S. from SUNY.

David is a marketing and communications consultant and is also pursuing a degree in radiologic technology at HVCC. He has served as a member of the board of directors of the Rensselaer County regional chamber of commerce and is a past president of the board of trustees of the First United Methodist Church, East Greenbush, New York. David resides in East Greenbush with his wife, Marilyn.
 

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