Conductors and Accompanists
More than a century of beautiful choral music is the proud patrimony of the Orpheus Club. Below are the names of the gifted artists, both Conductors/Directors and Pianists/Accompanists, who evoked from the chorus its very best, decade after decade:
Conductors/Directors1909 - 1915 DeWitt Clinton, Jr.
1915 - 1922 Wilbur A. Luyster 1922 - 1930 Bruno Huhn 1930 - 1944 Frank Kasschau 1944 - 1962 Howard Kasschau 1962 - 1963 Richard Bloch 1963 - 1977 Gerald Weale 1977 - 1978 Bailey (Oats) Harvey 1978 - 1990 James Bender 1990 - John J. Palatucci |
Pianists/Accompanists1909 George Young
1910 - 1922 Bevier Smith 1922 - 1937 Charles M. Hobbes 1937 - 1944 Howard Kasschau 1944 - 1950 Ralph Stoughton 1950 - 1951 Gates Wray 1951 - 1963 Harry Thurber 1963 - 2004 Richard Lane 2004 - Ron Levy |