Orpheus Club Men's Chorus - Spring Concerts 2013

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ORPHEUS CLUB MEN’S CHORUS P RE S E NTS ITS AN N UAL

Spring Concerts JOHN PALATUCCI**, Conductor JAMES RASH**, Assistant Conductor RON LEVY, Pianist KENNY MEDINA, Percussion JAY VANDEKOPPLE, Bass BOB KAUFMANN, Saxophone

SPECIAL GUEST

Carla Auld

Saturday, April 20, 2013 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:00 p.m.

Ridgewood United Methodist Church Ridgewood, New Jersey

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Welcome!

Welcome to the gala spring concerts of the Orpheus Club. One of the oldest male choruses in the Northeast, Orpheus was established in 1909 by a group of eight Ridgewood businessmen and is dedicated to the continuance of men’s choral singing, fellowship and to providing audiences with an eclectic repertoire of enjoyable music. Our singing membership is made up of men from all walks of life drawn together by the common bond of music. Our singers now come from northern and central New Jersey. We welcome your inquiries about singing with us. If singing is not for you but you enjoy attending our concerts, we invite you to consider becoming a subscribing member. As such, you will be kept apprised of our upcoming concerts and will enjoy significant savings on the cost of tickets. For more information feel free to speak with any singing member after the concert, visit our website (ridgewoodorpheusclub.org), or write to us (PO Box 114, Ridgewood).

JOHN J. PALATUCCI holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education and a Master of Arts degree in music performance from Montclair State College of New Jersey. Orpheus Music Director since 1990, he has striven to uphold and enhance the club’s proud history, tradition and reputation. In the Spring of 2005 he led the OCMC in their Lincoln Center debut, performing at the Lincoln Center Library with the Palisades Virtuosi chamber ensemble.

In 1983 Mr. Palatucci accepted the music department chairmanship of the Eastern Christian School Association of North Haledon. It was while teaching there that he developed a reputation as a builder of fine choral programs, his students winning five national level championships while consistently receiving Division I Superior ratings and invitations to perform in Israel, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and throughout the greater New York metropolitan area. In 1990 he assumed the directorship of choral and orchestral ensembles at Madison High School where his students again distinguished themselves at both the regional and state levels.

He has served as an adjudicator and clinician for the New Jersey Music Education Association, Good News Travel and The Offstage Group of New York City. He has been heard over WQXR and WFME radio and has recorded for Delos Records International, The Educational Testing Service, Koch Records, The Musical Heritage Society and The United States Merchant Marine Academy. He has performed with music luminaries from Placido Domingo and Jerome Hines to Dave Brubeck and Frankie Valli.

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Since 1992 he has taught music in the Livingston Public Schools and served on the faculties of William Paterson University, Montclair State University and Caldwell College teaching courses in applied and chamber music.

Assistant Conductor JIm RASH is a 23-year singing veteran of the Orpheus Club and has served as President along with several other leadership positions.

He is in his 25th year as Music Director at Hackensack United Methodist Church and previously directed two church choirs in Virginia. Jim performed at Carnegie Hall in 2009 and 2010, and Avery Fisher Hall-Lincoln Center in 2012, singing with a 400-member international chorus and orchestra. He serves as General Manager of the Atempo Chamber Ensemble and is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Associated Male Choruses of America, Chorus America, the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music, and the National Association of Music Educators. Jim is Vice President – Sales Development at Dittman Incentive Marketing in New Brunswick, NJ. RON Levy, internationally acclaimed pianist, has been called "first-class" by the New York Times. He regularly appears as a soloist, and in partnership with many of the world's leading singers and instrumentalists. A graduate of Oberlin, Mr. Levy is a founding member of the Hudson Trio, Kaleidoscope, the New World Trio, the Manchester Chamber Players, the Breucklen Trio and the awardwinning Palisades Virtuosi; he has been pianist and harpsichordist of the Oberlin Orchestra, the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, the New Jersey and North Jersey Philharmonics, the Westchester Symphony, and the Albany Symphony.

Presently he is Associate Artist with the All Seasons Chamber Players. For over 20 years, Mr. Levy was associated with the Manchester (VT) Music Festival, of which he was a faculty and Board member.

While living in Vermont, he was Music Director & Conductor of the Opera Theatre in Weston, and impresario of the "Third Saturday" chamber music series at the historic Equinox Hotel, as well as the "Music on the Hill" series at the Southern Vermont Art Center. A champion of new music, he has been the recipient of a considerable number of works written for him by prominent composers. Mr. Levy has taught at numerous colleges, and is currently an instructor at Montclair State University. He maintains an active and on-going affiliation with the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, and NJ PAC. Mr. Levy conceived two "minifestivals" which were presented by the NY Public Library at Lincoln Center. In 2008 Mr. Levy played in St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the venerable Stratford (CA) Summer Music Festival (with Palisades Virtuosi). In 2011 Ron performed the inaugural concert of the faculty recital series at MSU where he was joined by legendary clarinet virtuoso Stanley Drucker, and Ann Kim, solo cellist with the NY City Ballet. Last year, Ron and the Palisades Virtuosi returned from a resi-

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dency at the University of Hawaii where they conducted master classes and presented a debut concert featuring their 50th commissioned work. This season Mr. Levy appeared as concerto soloist with the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, and the Rockland Symphony. On November 29th, he will appear at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, performing a concert consisting entirely of works written for him, entitled "In Celebration of Composers."

A two-term President of the Professional Music Teachers' Guild of NJ, he is a contributing editor to BIM Music Publications, Switzerland. Recordings by Mr. Levy are available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch International, MMF and High Point labels.

KeNNy meDINA is an avid percussionist and educator in the New York/New Jersey area. Mr. Medina has performed with the Oratorio Society of New Jersey, The Martina Arroyo Foundation of New York, the Bergen Symphony Orchestra, the Christ Church Symphony Orchestra of Long Island, as solo concerto competition winner with the Hudson Symphony orchestra, and under the sponsorship of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He holds a BFA from St. Peter's College in Jersey City and a BA in Music from Kean University in Union.

JAy vANDeKOPPLe is Principal Double Bass in the Bergen Philharmonic and Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, and freelances throughout the Northern New Jersey area in both orchestral and chamber music. His orchestral experience has included Principal Bass in the Grand Rapids (MI) Symphony and the North Jersey Philharmonic; and section bassist in the New Jersey State Opera and the Somerset Hills Symphony (NJ). He has studied Double Bass with Peter Pocze, Warren Benfield, and Linda McKnight. He participated as a student in the Congress of Strings (USA/Canada) and Meadowbrook School of Music (MI) programs, and as staff bassist at the Eastern Music Festival (NC). Dr. VandeKopple has a Ph.D. in Mathematics, and has always been intrigued by the relationship of music and mathematics, and by stringed instrument acoustics and the physics of sound. He is a Professor Emeritus of Math/CIS at Marymount College of Fordham University in Tarrytown, NY. Dr. VandeKopple currently makes, repairs, and restores double basses, and serves as a Board member of the Violin Society of America (VSA) and as head of the Catgut Acoustical Society.

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Our Guest Flutist CARLA AULD is a soloist and chamber musician who promotes the performance and recording of new classical and cross-over music by various composers throughout the world. Ms. Auld’s solo debut CD, “Beauty in America”, features the works of living American composers and premieres two new works by Mark O’Connor and Steve Giammarino for flute and orchestra. The CD is available under the MSR Classics record label and has been described as "entirely captivating and impressive". Jerry Dubins, editor of Fanfare Magazine called it " ... Beguiling ... perfect technical command ... music made for listening ease and pleasure.” She has performed regularly as a soloist in conjunction with the West Side Oratorio Orchestra and several ensembles throughout the New York Metro Area.

Carla is a First Prize winner of the Alexander and Buono International Flute Competition garnering her a performance at Weill Recital Hall in Autumn of 2010. Ms. Auld is a founding member of the ensemble UpTown Flutes, winners of the Artist International Chamber Music Award, and has released three CD’s entitled, A Flute Renaissance, An UpTown Christmas, and 21st Century Gems. She also performs in the flute and voice ensemble CASSANDRA DUO, along with mezzo-soprano, Karen Leigh-Post. She and Dr. Karen Leigh Post have commissioned works by Allen Cohen, Jason Hoogerhyde to name a few. Ms. Auld has recently joined forces with Guitarist, Ana Maria Rosado to form a spirited and dynamic Latin-American Music ensemble, ¡DUO CARAMBA! presenting classical and contemporary Latin repertoire. Ms. Auld also performs a workshop series called Music in the Gardens with visual artist, Christine Zaccardi, presenting works for solo unaccompanied flute in various community gardens.

Carla most recently performed the U.S. premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's "Il Cerchio Tagliato Dei Suoni:Per 4 Flauti Solisti e 100 Flauti Migranti". The NY Times mentions the performance as "fascinating and engaging".

Carla Auld holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Temple University. As an educator, she is one of the founding members of the New Jersey Flute Choir Day and was a part of the project's coaching team from 1995-2008. Carla Auld is a Hammig flute Artist. She maintains a private teaching studio in her home.

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OFFICERS Greg Farrell.................................................................President Bill Amazzini .................................Vice President, Membership Bob Husband ............................Vice President, Administration Peter Bernich ..............................................................Treasurer Neil Neubert ................................................................Librarian Robert Silvera ..............................Chairman, Board of Trustees

BOARD OF TRUSTEES SINGING MEMBERS

Steve Amarante Thomas Olszewski

Steven Fell Edward Perrone

Clifford Gerenz Henry Trepicchio

NON-SINGING MEMBERS

Walter White

Marcia Perry COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

Paul Berinato ..................................................................................................Music Charles Austin ............................................................................................Publicity Ted Richter ..........................................................................................Performance PAST PRESIDENTS George U. White Frank F. Knothe George W. Campbell Wilbur Morris Paul J. Howe Herbert R. Talbot George A. Steves Theodore Northrup Robert Nutt, Jr. Ray M. Gidney Harry Wiltshire Richard H. Long Chester S. Lawton William J. Crawford Arthur I. Demarest Leon A. Payne Albert W. Staub Clifford D. Ackerman

Howard R. Leroy Richard G. Mannheim Frederick A. Blanpied Charles R. Dewhurst Stanley M. Staples Howard M. Liechty John Bing Walter C. Doscher Frederick E. Ray Theodore H. Mastin, Jr. Herbert S. Buzzard Otis H. Grendler Jack D. Morrison Oliver H. Hiester Karel V. Ctibor Vincent G. Beck 7

Robert J. Egner Charles B. Hepburn George W. Billings Jerome Wyckoff E. Raymond Greve Carl F. Bilz Robert E. Duane Frank Strobl Roland L. Meyer James W. Rash Paul D. Berinato Dan Williams Lou Fucito Jim Lisanti Pat O’Brien Joe Lisella Robert Silvera

Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus FIRST TENOR ROBERT F. SILVERA**, Part Captain CHARLES BROWN JIM LISANTI*

PETE BERNICH BOB HUSBAND

MATT GRIPPI VERNON REED

SECOND TENOR PAUL BERINATO**, Part Captain BILL DE BLOCK CLIFFORD GERENZ JOE LISELLA*

HERB COHEN* JOHN GALVIN CLIFF HOOK NEIL NEUBERT

LOU FUCITO* BERNARD GREENFIELD JAMES M. MATTHEWS* RICK SWANSON

BARITONE HENRY TREPICCHIO, Part Captain CHARLES CANALE DAVE KERR* PHILLIP RASPE* TOM VEIT BOB WESTERDAHL

CHARLES AUSTIN* GREG FARRELL TOM OLSZEWSKI* GARY STARK

RAY DEJONGHE* JIM LATHEY SAM SHAW PHIL WAXBERG

BASS JOSEPH ALU JAMES J. BELLOTTI*** STEVEN FELL* JAMES W. RASH** ED SEIDLER*

EDWARD J. BROUILLARD**, Part Captain STEVE AMARANTE BILL AMAZZINI JEFFREY R. BERINATO* BOB CASPARIAN JOHN MCKEON TOM OTT TED RICHTER VAN SCHNELLBACHER DENNIS M. STEELE

ACTIVE – NOT SINGING IN THIS CONCERT EDWARD H. PERRONE

HONORARY MEMBER FRANK STROBL*** * Each star represents ten years of music making

IN MEMORIAM

Frederick G. Spain 1937 – 2012 Second Tenor and former Secretary of the Club These concerts are dedicated to his memory 8

Patrons & Sponsors PATRONS Mr. Wesley Cheringal Mrs. Joseph Fitzsimmons Mr. & Mrs. Robert Fleckenstein*** Mr. James Rash & Ms. Marcia Guthrie*

Mr. Conrad Hirzel* Mrs. Walter Perry* Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Petretti* Mr. & Mrs. Walter White*

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Mrs. Dottie Fucito*

Mr. & Mrs. H. Ralph Kirby***

SUBSCRIBING MEMBERS Ms. Margaret Budd Mrs. Alida E. Manley***** Mrs. Marianne S. Neville*

Ms. Roberta A. M. Ragg**** Mr. Steven M. Steiner* Mr. Frank Strobl

DONORS The Orpheus Club gratefully acknowledges the following members and friends who have made donations to the club: Mr. Edward Brouillard Ms. Margaret Budd Mr. Lee Cheringal Cristina Farrell, MD Mr. Louis Fucito Mr. Clifford Gerenz Homewares, Inc.

Mr. James Matthews Perry's Florist Mr. Phillip Raspe Mr. Sam Shaw Ms. Marleigh Siebeckeer Mr. Thomas Veit Mr. Phil Waxberg

In Memory of Frederick G. Spain Healthcare Facilities Mr. & Mrs Brian Marcotte Ms. Adrianna O'Toole Mr. James Rash & Ms. Marcia Guthrie Ms. Virginia Spain Mr. & Mrs. Gary Sykes Mr. & Mrs. Earl Tebault Ms. Virginia Totorelli Ms. Linda Westenberger

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Best Mr. & Mrs. Peter Del Monaco Ms. Janet Earp Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Farrell Ms. Heather Fitzsimmons Ms. Linda Frankshun Mr. & Mrs. Louis Fucito Ms. Ethel and Ms. Janice Fulton Glen Ridge Surgicare Ms. Diana Hatch

We invite your support “in praise of song.” Please make your check payable to Orpheus Club, Inc. and mail it to Post Office Box 114, Ridgewood, NJ 07451.

All contributions to Orpheus are fully tax deductible to the maximum extent of the law.

ROLAND L. MEYER ORPHEUS CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FUND Maja Britton Ms. Colleen Keating Alex Rainer-Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Howard and Elizabeth Ostrow Marcia Perry 9

ORPHeUS PROgRAm

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Salutation. ...................................................................................William P. Bentz America, the Beautiful ...................Katherine Lee Bates and Samuel A. Ward arranged by Ladislas Helfenbein

The audience is invited to sing along ~ lyrics on the inside back cover Seize the Day ...............................................Jack Feldman and Alan Menken From Walt Disney’s NEWSIES

arranged by Roger Emerson

Embraceable You....................................................George and Ira Gershwin arranged by Jay Althouse

Malagueña ...........................................................................Ernesto Lecuona arranged by Clay Warnick II

Eighteenth Variation .....................................................Sergei Rachmaninoff From Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43 In memory of Van Cliburn (1934 - 2013) Ron Levy, piano Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (1975)…………………... ....Claude Bolling I. Sentimentale VII. Veloce Carla Auld, flute Ron Levy, piano Jay VandeKopple, bass Ken Medina, drums III

Soon and Very Soon..............................................................Andraé Crouch arranged by Rollo A. Dilworth

Prayer of the Children ................................................................Kurt Bestor

arranged by Andrea S. Klouse

Carousel.......................................Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II arranged by Clay Warnick 10

ORPHeUS PROgRAm

Spring 2013 There will be a fifteen-minute Intermission.

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Jazz Medley: A Tribute to Dave Brubeck (1920 – 2012) Just Because ................................................................. Dennis Leogrande Keep It Movin’ ....................................................................... David Kerr Blue Rondo A La Turk....................................................... Dave Brubeck Ron Levy, piano Jay VandeKopple, bass Ken Medina, drums

A Red, Red Rose ..............................................................James Mulholland Text from the poem by Robert Burns

Come Go With Me .....................................................................C. E. Quick Bob Kaufmann, saxophone

arranged by Kirby Shaw

The Butterfly and the Bee ........................................................Richard Lane V

Carmen Fantasie....................................................................François Borne Carla Auld, flute

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Give Us a Song..................................................................Joseph M. Martin No Man is an Island......................................Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer arranged by Roy Ringwald James Matthews, tenor

Hard Times Come Again No More .......................................Stephen Foster arranged by Donald Moore

The Testament of Freedom (excerpts) ............................Randall Thompson Text from the writings of Thomas Jefferson 11

Program Notes Spring 2013 Welcome to the spring concert of the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus. We’re glad you are here and we believe we have a program that all will find entertaining and inspiring. We have tunes from Broadway, from the classic “American Songbook,” from Scotland and England. You will hear us sing about love, patriotism, faith and sorrow. You will also be enthralled by our guest artist, our soloists, and Ron Levy at the piano. Here is what’s on our musical menu this Spring.

Seize the Day (From “Newsies”) words by Jack Feldman, Music by Alan Menken, arranged by Roger Emerson “Newsies,” a musical about a strike among young newspaper boys in 1899, was first conceived in 1992 as a movie from the Disney studio. It opened on Broadway in 2012, garnering a batch of Tony Award nominations and winning for best score and best choreography. “Seize the Day” is a universally inspiring anthem about the power of solidarity and courage in the face of oppression. embraceable you Music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, arranged by Jay Althouse Originally written in 1928 for an operetta that never made it to the stage, “Embraceable You” finally appeared in “Girl Crazy,” a Broadway musical produced in 1930. It has been recorded hundreds of times and is considered one of the era’s classics. The sophistication of the song is found in its light lyrics and rhythms, the sort that evoke images of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on a star-lit dance floor. malagueña Music by Ernesto Lecuona, arranged by Clay Warnick Originally a movement of Lecuona’s “Suite Andalucia”, Malagueña evolved into a virtuoso guitar piece, a stirring march for drum and bugle corps and a pop vocal hit. The title means a girl from Malaga. In 1960, the pop vocal by Connie Francis hit the charts.

Soon and very Soon Words and music by Andrae Crouch, Arrange by Rollo Dillworth.

The troubles of the earth will not last, says this song, because believers are “goin’ to see the King.” Songwriter Andrae Crouch (b. 1942) began singing in his father’s San Francisco church at the age of 11. After a brief career as a teacher, Crouch began writing gospel songs that became favorites within the youth “Jesus 12

movement” music of the 1960s. Crouch also wrote or arranged music for singers such as Diana Ross, Elton John, Quincy Jones and Madonna, and won seven Grammy awards in gospel music categories.

Prayer of the Children Words and music by Kurt Bestor. Arranged by Andrea S. Klouse.

Children in wartime are often too young to understand the terror going on around them. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Kurt Bestor grew up in Utah and began composing music as a teenager. He was a Mormon missionary in Yugoslavia when the war raged among Serbs, Bosnians and Croatians bringing death and destruction to the region. This poignant prayer asks whether the world will hear the prayers of children who are facing death and being torn from their home lands and their loved ones. The phrase “Dali _ujete sve dje_je molitve” is the song’s title in Croatian.

“A Red, Red Rose” From a poem by Robert Burns, music by James Muholland.

The poet also known as Bobbie Burns (1759-1796) is considered Scotland’s national poet, writing many of his poems in the Scots language as well as in English. He is the author of the New Year’s standard, “Auld Lang Syne,” (“Long Long Ago”), and Scottish patriotic songs. But Burns was a forerunner of the Romantic movement in poetry, and “A Red, Red Rose” is a man’s hymn to his beloved, the one he will love “till a’ the seas gang dry,” the one to whom he will return “Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.”

“Carousel” medley Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd.

Rodgers and Hammerstein followed the success of “Oklahoma” in 1943 with “Carousel” which opened in 1945 and became an instant hit. “Carousel” is a mixture of romance, intrigue, a longing for heaven and a tale of a community that comes together in good times and bad. It starts with a “real nice clambake” and takes us to the joy of June, “bustin’ out all over.” give Us A Song Words and music by Joseph M. Martin.

Joseph Martin (b. 1959) is director of sacred music for Shawnee Press and has composed hundreds of works, including 40 cantatas, for church choirs and secular choruses including “The Arrow and the Song” which Martin wrote for our 2009 centennial. If our beloved “Hail! Friends of Music” were not the Orpheus Club theme song, this one might do. It asks for a song of grace, peace, freedom, courage that will have us sing together, with power and majesty, “one alleluia!”

The Butterfly and the Bee

By Richard Lane Our dear friend and pianist for 42 years, Richard Lane, wrote many songs for the Orpheus Club. Some were based on weighty lines from classic literature and 13

poetry; some were lofty words and melodies from his own creative musical and lyrical pen. This one is of a different sort, still bearing all the joys of our late friend’s musical skills.

No man Is An Island (From a poem by John Donne, 1573-1631) by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer, Arranged by Roy Ringwald John Donne’s poem declares the unity of the human family, where each one’s death is a loss to all. The words by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer lift up the “living” side of Donne’s sentiment, where “each man’s joy is joy to me, and each man’s grief is my own.” Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians made this song a hit when they recorded it in 1951.

Hard Times Come Again No more Words and music by Stephen Foster, arranged by Donald Moore.

Stephen Foster (1826-1864) published this song in 1854, as a “parlor song” with a social conscience. Those with “life’s pleasures” are asked to remember that all “sup sorrow with the poor” and that while people seek “mirth and beauty,” there are “frail forms fainting at the door.” It is a song appropriate for any time when the poor suffer and all have a responsibility to, in the rhetoric of poetry, see that “Hard Times Come Again No More.”

The Testament of Freedom Words by Thomas Jefferson, music by Randall Thompson.

Our nation’s third president had a gift for words that, though written as prose, had poetic “style” and the power to rouse the people of the newly-born United States of America to honor and defend the creation of a land where freedom reigned and liberty was intended for all. Randall Thompson (1899-1984) is one of the greatest American composers writing operas, choral and instrumental works, teaching, and setting unusual pieces of literature to grand music. Here he takes Jefferson’s words about the gifts God gives our country and creates a moving choral “testament of freedom.”

Program notes by Charles Austin

★★ CONGRATULATIONS! 10 YEARS

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Charles Austin CELEBRATING THE SONG AND SPIRIT OF ORPHEUS 14

Orpheus Club Scholarship Program Roland L. Meyer Orpheus Club Scholarship

The Orpheus Club is proud to sponsor a scholarship program designed to honor and assist a graduating high school senior who has demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in music and who intends to continue musical studies on the collegiate level. Since the program took on its current form in 1993, we have been pleased to recognize students from more than a dozen area high schools with grants totaling $17,000.00. These outstanding young musicians have gone on to study at colleges and universities across the country.

Earlier this year, application packets were sent to area high schools. Additional information was made available on our web site and through the press. The students from whom we received applications all demonstrated high levels of accomplishment in their musical pursuits as well as in academics and other school activities.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 Roland L. Meyer Orpheus Club Scholarship award of $2000.00 is Yuta Takano from Ramsey. A senior at the Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, Yuta is a member of the Concert and Chamber Choirs. A multi-talented instrumentalist, his prime instrument is cello but he also plays the French horn, clarinet and bass clarinet. He has been elected to the Tri-M Music Honor Society and the National Honor Society.

He plans to study cello performance in college.

Congratulations and Good Luck, Yuta!

We thank all the individuals and groups who made donations to this valuable effort. Your support is much appreciated by the club and the student award recipients. Donations of any size are welcomed. Make your check payable to the Orpheus Club Scholarship Fund and give it to any singing member or mail it to:

Orpheus Club, Inc. P.O. Box 114 • Ridgewood, NJ 07451 All contributions are tax-deductible.

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A Concert of Celebration

THE RID GEWO OD CHORAL Women in Song and Service Celebrating 85 Years Marjorie Vandervoort Celebrating 20 Years as Conductor

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8 p.m.

West Side Presbyterian Church 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ Elegant music from years gone by: Brahms, Respighi, Mulholland, Erwin The Chambered Nautilus by Amy Beach Richard Lane on Broadway! Berlin, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Rome, Carmichael, the Gershwins Featuring Susan LaFever, piano and French horn and Deborah Goodell, piano Soloists Daniella Ashbahian and Laura Van Orden And The 2013 Florence Reinauer Memorial Music Award Winner

Tickets: $15 advance; $20 at the door. Call 201-327-8184 www.ridgewoodchoral.org

Spring Concert Saturday, April 27, 2013 -- 7:30 p.m.

Featuring Works By: Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Mozart and more!

Douglas Duck Sung Chung Concertmaster/Music Director Hackensack United Methodist Church 400 Summit Avenue, Hackensack, NJ Tickets in Advance: $15 -- $10 Senior/Students under 17 Tickets at Door: $20 -- $15 Seniors/Students under 17 Reception following concert For information/tickets: 201-233-6753 -- ddschung@hotmail.com Jim Rash, General Manager

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SAVE the DATES! The annual Orpheus Club

Holiday Concerts Saturday, December 14, 2013 • 7:30 pm Sunday, December 15, 2013 • 4:00 pm Mark your calendars now so you won’t miss this delightful way to celebrate the season.

! d e t n a W ★ S R E G N I S RPHEUS N E M FOR O ★

Our Wednesday evening rehearsals start again September 11, 2013 8 to 10 p.m.

The Georgian Room Care One at the Cupola W. 100 Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus

Call for more information!

Greg Farrell 201-652-2873 Bill Amazzini 551-404-3976

• Enjoy the Camaraderie • It’s a great weekly bre ak • Come to rehearsal—try us out!

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Thank You! In the past year a number of members and friends have underwritten the purchase of new sheet music for the club. We would like to acknowledge these generous gifts:

Ted Richter • Lou Fucito • Vernon Reed Neil Neubert • Pete Bernich • Anonymous Although Orpheus has an extensive library, we are always on the lookout for new pieces which our audiences will enjoy. If you would like to learn more about how you can participate in this program, contact Greg Farrell, president.

Music for an (almost) summer evening The Orpheus Club celebrates the 85th anniversary of “our sisters in song,”

The Ridgewood Choral In a joint concert at the

Kasschau Shell Tuesday, June 18, 2013 • 8:30 Pm Behind the Ridgewood Library

Bring chairs or blankets

SUMMER CONCERTS AT THE BOTANICAL GARDEN Join us on Friday nights at 6:30pm on the Concert Lawn. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Concerts move indoors in bad weather.

RINGWOOD STATE PARK Morris Road • Ringwood, NJ

973.962.9534 • njbg.org

No pets or alcohol on State property, please. $5 Donation.

June 14 – Brassworks (Classical) June 28 – The Kootz (Rock) July 12 – Loretta Hagen (Folk) July 26 – The Dalton Gang (Jazz) August 9 – Rave On! (Oldies) August 23 – Carolann Solebello & Band (Folk)

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The little red lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge

America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.

For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain.

America! America! God shed his grace on thee. and crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness!

America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years.

Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears.

America! America! God shed his grace on thee.

And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea.

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CONGRATULATIONS Orpheus Club on your 104 Years of Music

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