Below: The Orpheus Club Men's Chorus was honored to sing for our friends at Holland Christian Home on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. Our music director, John Palatucci, played "Carnival of Venice" on the euphonium, and our pianist, Ron Levy, played Scott Joplin's "Pineapple Rag." Photos courtesy of Holland Christian Home.
The chorus sang again at Ridgewood's 2019 Fourth of July Parade. "The Orpheus Club IS Ridgewood" and also represents the best of our greater northern New Jersey community.
Below: Orpheus members sing at the Valley Hospital Auxiliary's Flag Day celebration, Wednesday, June 12, 2019.
Our Spring 2019 Concerts were held Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 7 at 4 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 100 Dayton Street, Ridgewood.
The theme was Music of the Immigrant Experience. (Program below photos.)
The Village of Ridgewood honored Orpheus, celebrating 110 years of music-making, with a proclamation naming April 2019 as Orpheus Club Men's Chorus Month. Village Mayor Ramon M. Hache, Sr. and Deputy Mayor Susan Knudsen read and presented the proclamation on Sunday, April 7, during the chorus' spring concert. Orpheus President Vernon Reed and Music Director John J. Palatucci accepted the award on behalf of the club.
The theme was Music of the Immigrant Experience. (Program below photos.)
The Village of Ridgewood honored Orpheus, celebrating 110 years of music-making, with a proclamation naming April 2019 as Orpheus Club Men's Chorus Month. Village Mayor Ramon M. Hache, Sr. and Deputy Mayor Susan Knudsen read and presented the proclamation on Sunday, April 7, during the chorus' spring concert. Orpheus President Vernon Reed and Music Director John J. Palatucci accepted the award on behalf of the club.
The program for Orpheus' Spring 2019 Concerts included:
We Sing As One - Richard Lane
Arirang - Korean folk song
You'll Be Back from "Hamilton" - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Prelude in G Minor - Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by Ron Levy
Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust" - Charles Gounod
Hear, O Israel - traditional Jewish service music (English and Hebrew)
Roving - sea shanty
Siboney - Ernesto Lecuona (Spanish)
Selections from the Marx Brothers' "A Night At The Opera"
Brush Up Your Shakespeare and So in Love from "Kiss Me Kate" - Cole Porter
In the Still of the Night (doo wop) - Fred Paris
Danny Boy - THE traditional Irish folk melody
O, Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi - Giacomo Pucci (sung by soprano Ula Goldstein, Roland L. Meyer Memorial Scholarship winner)
Ride the Chariot - American spiritual
At the River - Aaron Copland
No Man Is An Island, words by John Donne
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor from "Miss Liberty" - Irving Berlin
God Bless America - Irving Berlin
We Sing As One - Richard Lane
Arirang - Korean folk song
You'll Be Back from "Hamilton" - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Prelude in G Minor - Sergei Rachmaninoff, performed by Ron Levy
Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust" - Charles Gounod
Hear, O Israel - traditional Jewish service music (English and Hebrew)
Roving - sea shanty
Siboney - Ernesto Lecuona (Spanish)
Selections from the Marx Brothers' "A Night At The Opera"
Brush Up Your Shakespeare and So in Love from "Kiss Me Kate" - Cole Porter
In the Still of the Night (doo wop) - Fred Paris
Danny Boy - THE traditional Irish folk melody
O, Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi - Giacomo Pucci (sung by soprano Ula Goldstein, Roland L. Meyer Memorial Scholarship winner)
Ride the Chariot - American spiritual
At the River - Aaron Copland
No Man Is An Island, words by John Donne
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor from "Miss Liberty" - Irving Berlin
God Bless America - Irving Berlin