2020
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, In celebration of Veterans Day 2020, Orpheus Club Men's Chorus (OCMC) sings "America, the Beautiful," with words by Katherine Lee Bates and music by New Jersey's own Samuel Ward. In this video, we sing an arrangement by Ladislas Helfenbein that has been the opening selection at every OCMC spring concert for some two decades.
Music Director: John J. Palatucci
ianist and Assistant Conductor: Ron Levy
Singers: Peter Bernich, Bob Casparian, Matthew Fairchild, Andrew Ferretti, Lou Fucito, Bob Husband, Joe Lisella, James Matthews, Hal Maxwell, Paul Nelson, Vernon Reed, Eric Schwarz, Mitch Shapiro, Sam Shaw, David Strife.
Video Editor: Zigi Putnins
Music Director: John J. Palatucci
ianist and Assistant Conductor: Ron Levy
Singers: Peter Bernich, Bob Casparian, Matthew Fairchild, Andrew Ferretti, Lou Fucito, Bob Husband, Joe Lisella, James Matthews, Hal Maxwell, Paul Nelson, Vernon Reed, Eric Schwarz, Mitch Shapiro, Sam Shaw, David Strife.
Video Editor: Zigi Putnins
On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, we met online via Zoom to celebrate Halloween and to hear member Lou Fucito's presentation on the history of male choral singing going back to Gregorian Chant through the catches and glees of merry olde England to our present day.
On Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, we performed for the first time publicly in 2020, at the Welcome Back, Ridgewood street festival. View a 90-second version of our (socially distanced) rendition of "Brothers, Sing On!"
Orpheus enters the Zoom age, with its first annual meeting held online (Wednesday, May 20, 2020).
In April 2020, Orpheus awarded its annual Roland L. Meyer Scholarship to saxophonist Kieran Corcoran, of Ridgewood.
