2022

Orpheus Video Sends L-O-V-E for Valentine’s Day

"L-O-V-E" ("Love Was Made for Me and You"), performed by the men of Orpheus Club Men's Chorus on Feb. 9, 2022, to celebrate Valentine's Day. Words and music by Bert Kaempfert and Milton Gabler.

Music Springs Eternal! Concert Features
Performances by Scholarship Winners

Our spring 2022 concert, with the theme Music Springs Eternal!, was held Sunday, April 24 at 4 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ. Printed concert program.
In addition to the Orpheus repertoire listed below, our two student scholarship winners performed:

  • Bridge Over Troubled Water (1969), words and music by Paul Simon (b. 1941), sung by Margot Jerkovich.
  • Vocalise [from "Fourteen Romances," Op. 34; 1915] by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), viola performance by Yoona Park.

Orpheus pianist Ron Levy performed Summerland [from "Three Visions"; 1936] and Dance [from "A Deserted Plantation; 1933], both by William Grant Still (1895-1978).                 

Choral performances:
  • Salutation ("Hail, Friends of Music!"), words and music by Wm. P. Bentz.
  • America, the Beautiful, lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates, music by Samuel A. Ward, arranged by Ladislas Helfenbein.
  • Stout Hearted Men, words by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Sigmund Romberg.
  • For the Beauty of the Earth, words by F. S. Pierpoint (1835-1917), music by John Rutter.
  • De Animals a-Comin', Negro spiritual, tune and text as rendered by Maginel Wright Barney, arranged by Marshall Bartholomew.
  • A Place in the Choir, words and music by Bill Staines (1947-2021), arranged by Erica Phare-Bergh.
  • America Singing (world premiere), text by Walt Whitman, music by Roger Stubblefield.
  • Seventy Six Trombones, words and music by Meredith Willson, arranged by William Stickles.
  • Desperta Ferro, words and music by Christopher Fox, based on an Almogàver battle cry.
  • The Voice of Music, words by George Bottomley, music by Richard Lane.
  • The Longest Time (doo-wop group), words and music by Billy Joel, arranged by Roger Emerson.
  • Jamaica Farewell, Jamaican folk song arranged by L. M. House.
  • Not While I'm Around [from Sweeney Todd], words and music by Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), arranged by Robert Page.
  • Let All Men Sing​, words and music by Keith Christopher.
​Photos by Zigi Putnins. Video by Elizabeth Shane.

’Twas a Grand Night for Singing!

Photos from Orpheus Club Men's Chorus concert at Ridgewood's Kasschau Memorial Bandshell (Tuesday, June 28, 2022, from 8:30 to 9:45 p.m.). From Orpheus' music director, John J. Palatucci: ’Twas a grand night for singing! Thank you to the singing men of the OCMC, our faithful fans, friends and families and especially Zigi Putnins for taking another set of great pictures.