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Join Us!
New
members are welcome.
Ability to read music not required.
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The public is cordially invited to attend our fall 2008 concerts.
click here for
details
Conductor
David W. Lance
Accompanist
Jean Adams Bookhop
President
Dave Caneen
Vice President
David Titus
Secretary
William Bookhop
Treasurer
Carl Eno
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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: Bill Bookhop at 518-732-2998 or Bob
Montgomery at 518-283-3888
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The Hendrick Hudson Male Chorus performs throughout
the Capitol District and each December presents a holiday concert at the
Community Congregational Church of Clinton Heights, its current rehearsal site. In
addition, HHMC gives an annual spring concert each May.
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 hosted the massed concert of
the association in April 2002. HHMC has participated in each biannual massed
concert since, most recently (2006) in Saugerties, New York,
when it was sponsored by the Catskill Glee Club.
HHMC is also represented in the Yankee Male
Chorus, which performs annually in Vermont and New Hampshire in August.
Hendrick's Ten
For more than 24 years, small-group singing has been
a tradition in the HHMC, in the a capella style of such well-known college
ensembles as the Yale Whiffenpoofs, Cornell Hangovers, and Colgate Thirteen.
At its inception, the HHMC a capella 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 and Hendrick’s Ten since 2000.
In addition to performing at each regular
HHMC concert, Hendrick’s Ten 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
Ten 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 Ten is available for hire as public concert guest
artists or as entertainment at private functions. Contact
dcaneen@nycap.rr.com.
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Fall 2008 Concert Schedule |
| Please check this space again for our
fall concert schedule. On
May 3, Hendrick Hudson hosted a
massed concert presented by the Mohawk Hudson Male Chorus Association.
The performance took place at the historic Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
To read more about the concert click here. |
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.
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David W. Lance is
in his third season
as the conductor of HHMC, 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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