Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus Spring Concert Features Scholarship Winners

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.