Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus’ spring 2022 concert, with the theme Music Springs Eternal!, featured performances by the club’s two scholarship awards for 2022, high school seniors Yoona Park and Margot Jerkovich. 

The concert was held Sunday, April 24 at First Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ. 

Ms. Park, a violist, played Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise from “Fourteen Romances,” Op. 34 (1915). Ms. Jerkovich, a soprano vocalist, sang Paul Simon’s Bridge Over Troubled Water (1969). 

Other highlights of the concert included: 

• Pianist Ron Levy’s rendition of two pieces by William Grant Still, Summerland from “Three Visions” (1936) and Dance from “A Deserted Plantation” (1933). 
• The world premiere of America Singing by composer Roger Stubblefield, based on text by Walt Whitman, featuring soloists Mitchell Shapiro (tenor) and Sam Shaw (bass).
• A doo-wop performance of The Longest Time, with words and music by Billy Joel. Shapiro and Lou Fucito were tenor soloists. The other singers in the doo-wop ensemble were Vernon Reed, Bob Husband, and David Strife (tenors); Richard Rehbein and Peter Bernich (baritones); and Ed Brouillard (bass).
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Photos by Zigi Putnins. Video by Elizabeth Shane.

Orpheus Club Men's Chorus is pleased to announce the winners of its two scholarship awards for 2022, to high school seniors Yoona Park and Margot Jerkovich.
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Yoona Park is a violist (musician who plays the viola) from Paramus, New Jersey, whom Orpheus honored with the Roland L. Meyer Scholarship Award.

Margot Jerkovich is a vocalist and actor from Ridgewood, New Jersey. She won the Harriet & Edward Levy Memorial Scholarship Award.

​Orpheus Club Men's Chorus members Mitchell Shapiro and Sam Shaw are among dozens of singers, throughout the world, who contributed to a choral rendition of the Ukrainian National Anthem.

The video was organized by Valerie Samn. Lyrics by Pavlo Chubynsky (1862), music by Mykhailo Verbytsky (1863), and arranged by Tim Ribchester (2022). Here are the lyrics translated into English (also shown in the video):

Ukraine's glory has not yet died.
Nor her freedom.
Upon us, my young brothers, fate shall yet smile.
Our enemies will perish, like dew in the morning sun.
And we too shall rule, brothers, in our own land.
Souls and bodies we'll lay down, all for our freedom.
And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Kozak nation.
Souls and bodies we'll lay down, all for our freedom.
And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Kozak nation.

THE RIDGEWOOD CHORAL 
Women in Song and Service Since 1928 
Marjorie Vandervoort, Music Director
Susan LaFever, Piano 
Presenting our 92nd Spring Concert 
Say It With Music

​After 29 seasons, we express farewell to our beloved Conductor 
through her favorite songs. 
Featuring 
The 2022 Florence Reinauer Memorial Music Award Winner 
Calvin Harper, Trombone 
A Senior at Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ 
The 2022 Marjorie Vandervoort Vocal Music Award 
Margot Jerkovich, Soprano 
A Senior at Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ 
Saturday, April 9, 2022, 7:30 p.m. 
West Side Presbyterian Church 
6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, New Jersey 
Tickets: at the door -- $20 cash or check made out to The Ridgewood Choral 
www.ridgewoodchoral.org  
The concert will Covid compliant with the regulations of the State of New Jersey applicable at the time.

Lyrics:
“Who are the brave? Those who go to war.
Who are the brave? Those who fight no more.
Those who gave their lives, protecting freedom’s shore.
Who are the brave? Those who serve in war.
Who are the brave? Those who live with pain.
Who are the brave? Those whose lives are plain.
Those with healthy bodies, those protecting the unsure.
Who are the brave? Those who serve the poor.
Who are the brave? Those whose speech is free?
Who are the brave? Those loving liberty.
All those with heart and mind, protecting all they find.
Who are the brave? Those who serve mankind.
These are the brave.” - J. Paul Williams

​Want to support the people in Ukraine? Here's how you can help (from NPR)