The Champlain Valley Chorus is a fun,
supportive group of women.
To tell about the chorus on the web site, members
were invited to share some of their . . .
CHORUS MEMORIES
* Being at a NYC competition, when suddenly there
was a loud noise and the lid from the street sewer shot up past our
13th floor hotel window, followed by a trail of brown
-----?
* Being stuck in a packed hotel elevator with half
of the chorus for almost two hours. No one knew where we were. We
never made it to the Show of Shows After Glow and had to wait for the
elevator technician to arrive from out-of-town to let us out. We sang
and told jokes to calm our spirits. Some chorus members, who
had gone to bed, wouldn't believe what had happened.
* Trying not to cry when we sang Christmas carols
to the sick and elderly.
* Getting up before dawn to go sing
Valentines.
* Walking 1/4 mile carrying high heels and
costumes at zero degrees on top of Lyon Mountain to the American
Legion Christmas Party sing-out. We had parked at the wrong place,
opened our electronic car window to watch a full-moon eclipse, and
then discovered a dead battery. Brrr!
* Screaming the loudest ever when we won small
chorus 3rd place in 1997!
* The "screaming the loudest" reminds me when we
took 4th in Saratoga. Honestly, I thought I was going to have
an attack of some sort. We were aiming for fifth and when the
fifth place announcement came and went we kind of sighed and thought
"Well, we did our best". And when they announced the 4th place
winner and it was Champlain Valley we couldn't believe it. I
can remember George going to the stage to receive the award and on
the way down the aisle he stopped midway and rested. He was in
shock as well as the rest of us. What a moment!
* Keeping our focus singing while lending a hand
to a chorus member who fell in the middle of the risers.
The show must go on!
* I am not sure if this is the kinda story that
you want but it really struck me when we drove to Keesville and sang
to a little elderly lady that was caring for her grandaughter who was
just home from many stays in the hospital because she had been badly
hurt in an accident. There was another person at the house who was
taking care of them. The other granddaughter had sent us there.
How sad for some people.
* Then this year when we sang to the guy at
the place back of the bowling alley and then the place closed and all
those people lost their jobs.
* Siding down the slippery banks into a cat-tail
ditch when cleaning the NY Route 9N. Dressed in yellow hard hats,
orange vests, gloves, and carrying a long "grabber" and heavy duty
trash bags, a team of us covered two miles, then usually had lunch at
the Royal Savage Restaurant, where we told stories about the "stuff"
we had found. We miss the restaurant. It's gone, but we still clean
the roadway.
2001 Competition
2000 Competition
The Original Chorus 1968-1970, Atlantic
City
The Original Chorus 1968-1970, Columbus
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