Orpheus Club Men's Chorus - Spring Concerts 2014

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ORPHEUS CLUB MEN’S CHORUS Presents its annual

CONGRATULATIONS Orpheus Club on your 105 Years of Music

Family Owned & Operated Since 1954 Walter Perry, Jr., Founder 660 Harristown Road Glen Rock, NJ 07452

Spring Concerts JOhn PalatuCCi**, Conductor James rash**, Assistant Conductor rOn levy*, Pianist Kenny medina, Percussion

105th SeaSon

Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:00 p.m.

Ridgewood United Methodist Church

ridgewood, nJ

ushers: Friends of the Orpheus Club

201-445-5668 www.perrysflorist.net

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Special Thanks to the ownership and management of Ramapo Highlands

Care One at the Cupola W. 100 Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus, NJ

Perry’s Florist

660 Harristown Rd., Glen Rock, NJ

Daily Treat Restaurant 177 Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, NJ

Town & Country Apothecary 60 East Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, NJ

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Rock Ridge Pharmacy 191 Rock Road, Glen Rock, NJ

The Wine Seller 6 West Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood, NJ

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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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Holiday Concerts Saturday, December 20, 2014 • 7:30 pm Sunday, December 21, 2014 • 4:00 pm Mark your calendars now so you won’t miss this delightful way to celebrate the season.

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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 (www.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 3

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.

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 in his 24th year as a singing veteran of the Orpheus Club and has been President along with several other leadership positions. For 25 years he has served 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 for Music Education. Jim is Vice President – Sales Development at Dittman Incentive Marketing in New Brunswick, NJ. 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 Christ Church Symphony Orchestra of Long Island, as solo concerto competition winner with the Hudson Symphony orchestra, and under the auspices of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

He has also served as a percussion instructor for InterSchool Orchestras of New York. He holds a BFA from St. Peter's College in Jersey City and a BA in Music from Kean University in Union.

Benefit Concert for the Orpheus Club

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June 4th at 7pm Unitarian Society of Ridgewood 113 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ. Come and join us as we listen and watch Tom Morrison, Bill Short (Principal Bassoonist of the Met Opera), Nina Decesare, graduate student at Rice University, and Kayla Burggraf, graduate student at Manhattan School of Music. They will perform pieces by J.S. Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mozart, and more.

Dedicatd to Betty and Tom Terhune and Jack and Sue Morrison.

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Ten Years

PALISADES VIRTUOSI Our latest recording is now available:

New American Masters, Volume 5 CD is available from Amazon.com Or download from iTunes Margaret Swinchoski, flute • Donald Mokrynski, clarinet • Ron Levy, piano

SUMMER CONCERTS at the BOTANICAL GARDEN

Skylands

Join us on Friday nights at 6:30pm on the Concert Lawn. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Concerts move indoors in bad weather.

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

June 13 –James L Dean Band (Big Band)

RINGWOOD STATE PARK Morris Road • Ringwood, NJ

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June 27 – Sixteen String Band (Rock) July 11 – Loretta Hagen (Folk) July 25 – The Dalton Gang (Latin Jazz) August 8 – Rave On! (Oldies Rock) August 22 – No fuss & Feathers (Folk) 16

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 award-winning Palisades Virtuosi, resident chamber ensemble at Bergen Community College and the University of Hawaii. 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 ongoing affiliation with the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, and NJ PAC. Mr. Levy conceived two "mini-festivals" 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). Recently, Ron performed the inaugural concert of the new faculty recital series at MSU. He was joined by legendary clarinet virtuoso Stanley Drucker, and Ann Kim, solo cellist with the NY City Ballet. On November 29,2013 Ron presented a concert at Carnegie Hall, performing sixteen works written for him (including two for the Orpheus Club). A two-term President of the Professional Music Teachers' Guild of NJ, he is a contributing editor to BIM Music Publications, Switzerland. Recently Mr. Levy was appointed to the Board of the Rockland (NY) Symphony. Mr. Levy served on the jury of the The 2013 Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition. Recordings by Mr. Levy are available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch International, MMF and High Point labels.

We salute and thank Ron for his first 10 years as pianist for Orpheus.

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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 $19,000.00. 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 2014 Roland L. Meyer Orpheus Club Scholarship award of $2000.00 is Emmett Rapaport from Ridgewood. He is a senior at Ridgewood High School where he has been a member of the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Lab, Big Band, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, Saxophone Ensemble and the RHS Marching Band. He has also played in the pit orchestra for several school musical productions. He has been selected to the NJ Region I Symphonic Band, the NJ Region I Saxophone Ensemble, the NJ Region I Jazz Ensemble, the NJ All State Symphonic Band and the NJ All State Jazz Ensemble.

Congratulations and Good Luck, Emmett!

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:

song’s subject is a young girl named Elena, and our performance is dedicated to Elena Diaz, granddaughter of the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus music director, who is of Czech descent on her mother’s side.

Beyond the Sea Words by A. Lawrence, Music by Charles Trenet, arranged by Richard Lane Originally a pop song written in 1946; the 1959 version of “Beyond the Sea”

by Bobby Darin became one of the top hits of that year. Lawrence wrote songs for such artists as Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, the Andrews Sisters and Tony Bennett in a song-writing career that began in the 1930s.

This arrangement is by the late Richard Lane, a beloved composer, pianist and friend who was the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus accompanist for 42 years. We honor his memory by presenting music that Dick wrote or arranged at each of our concerts.

Thanks Be To Thee

By G.F. Handel, arranged by Channing Lefebvre The music of this anthem is commonly attributed to Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), but the music has only been traced back to the late 19th Century.

The first to join the music to the text beginning “Thanks be to thee” appears to have been Siegfried Ochs (1858-1929). Since then, there have been many arrangements with wide variations in both music and lyric. Whatever the origin, the anthem is a work is stately and impressive, with a Handel-like dignity worthy of the composer buried in London’s Westminster Abbey.

Charlottown Southern Folk Song arranged by Chas. F. Bryan This may have been a work song sung on riverboats. Though heard throughout the American South, it might be referring to a great fire in the Canadian city of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1866. music from “my Fair Lady” by Frederick Lowe Words by Alan Jay Lerner One of the most beloved musicals of all time, “My Fair Lady” opened on Broadway in 1956 and set what was then the record for the longest run of any major musical production in history. Some of the stars, including Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway, took their roles into the 1964 movie version which starred Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle (with Marnie Nixon providing the singing voice). The movie won eight Academy Awards. The Lerner and Lowe songs contain all the romance, wit and drama that make for great theater and great music.

Program notes by Charles Austin

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In Flanders Fields Words by Dr. John McCrae, music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson, Arranged by Roger Emerson World War I which began 100 years ago. After weeks of treating the wounded and dying during the battle of Ypres, Dr. John McCrae, a Canadian physician and poet, wrote this poem about the poppies in the fields and the men buried beneath them. The poem was nearly lost, but became one of the most significant poems of the 20th Century. Its plea that the living take up the cause of those who have died has been used as recruitment for military service, but a contemporary analysis might also encourage honoring the dead by seeking an end to warfare so that those buried in Flanders fields might sleep in peace and that there be no need for more military graveyards.

The Ballad of Little musgrave and Lady Barnard Music by Benjamin Britten, words anon.

Benjamin Bitten (1913-1976) was an English-born composer whose work spanned all musical genres. This mini-opera, based on an ancient ballad, had its premiere when it was sung by Allied soldiers in a Nazi prison camp during World War II. A controversial figure in England at the time for having registered as a conscientious objector, Britten’s musical genius nevertheless made it impossible to ignore the artistry and scope of his work.

The Arrow and the Song Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), music by Joseph M Martin.

This setting of a poem by Longfellow was written for the 100th anniversary of the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus and was first sung at our centennial concert in 2009. It has a simple message: An arrow flies and falls to earth; a song breathed into the air continues and brings blessing to the life of a friend. Composer Joseph Martin is director of sacred publications for Shawnee Press. He is recognized as an award-winning composer of choral music. The Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus is proud to have commissioned this piece for men who like to sing.

Paddlin’ madelin’ Home Music by Harry Woods, arranged by Benjamin Miller This song was first performed in 1925 by the vaudeville singer, Cliff Edwards, known as “Ukulele Ike” and has long been a standard for ukulele players (a fine instrument to take with you in a canoe). This arrangement is in the traditional and uniquely American style of barbershop quartet harmony and is dedicated to our own Madeline, the granddaughter of Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus pianist Ron Levy.

Stodelé Pumpa Traditional Czech folk song, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw Some of us remember singing this tune around the campfire. The words are obscure, but generally understood as being translated “barn (water) pump.” The 14

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

Steven Fell

Thomas Olszewski

Clifford Gerenz Henry Trepicchio

NON-siNGiNG MeMBeRs

Walter White

Marcia Perry cOMMiTTee cHaiRMeN

Paul Berinato ..................................................................................................Music Peter Fenzel ...............................................................................................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

Program Notes HERB COHEN* LOU FUCITO* BERNARD GREENFIELD JAMES M. MATTHEWS*

CHARLES CANALE JIM LATHEy ERIC SCHWARz TOM VEIT

JOSEPH ALU BOB CASPARIAN JOHN MCKEON TED RICHTER

Second tenor PAUL BERINATO**, Part Captain BILL DE BLOCK JOHN GALVIN CLIFF HOOK NEIL NEUBERT DAVID STRIFE Baritone DAVE KERR*, Part Captain RAy DEJONGHE* TOM OLSzEWSKI* SAM SHAW PHIL WAxBERG

Spring 2014 PETER FENzEL CLIFFORD GERENz JOE LISELLA* RICK SWANSON

GREG FARRELL* PHILLIP RASPE* GARy STARK BOB WESTERDAHL

BaSS EDWARD J. BROUILLARD**, Part Captain BILL AMAzzINI JEFFREy R. BERINATO* STEVEN FELL* ROGER JACOBSON TOM OTT JAMES W. RASH** VAN SCHNELLBACHER DENNIS M. STEELE

active – not Singing in thiS concert STEVE AMARANTE CHARLES AUSTIN* JAMES J. BELLOTTI*** DOMENICK PANFILE ED SEIDLER* HENRy TREPICCHIO* honorary MeMBer FRANK STROBL*** * Each star represents ten years of music making

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, and more. You will hear us sing about love, patriotism, faith and sorrow. You will also be enthralled by our scholarship winner, our soloists, and Ron Levy at the piano. Here is what’s on our musical menu this Spring.

Shenandoah Traditional, arranged by Marshall Bartholomew The murky origins of this well-known American folk song may lie with French voyageurs traveling the Missouri River and tells of one voyageur falling in love with the daughter of Shenandoah, an Algonquian chief. The song may have evolved into a chantey for sailors hauling on the ropes or raising an anchor Whatever the origin, the song did not make it into print until it was found in an article about “Sailor Songs” in 1882.

We find it a charming piece of Americana, and a moving piece of music; fun to sing and satisfying to hear.

Ain’t Judgin’ No man Words by John Parker, Music by Greg Gilpin Greg Gilpin is an award-winning choral composer and musician who has written for Broadway and the Disney studios. He teamed with songwriter John Parker for this rollicking gospel-style number loosely based on a verse from the Bible about looking to our own faults before denouncing the trespasses of others.

IN MEMORIAM

Home Words and music by Greg Golden and Drew Pearson, arranged by Alan Billingsley

Gene O’Connor

“Home” originated on the immensely popular “American Idol” television series, recorded by season 11 winner Phillip Phillipps. The song immediately hit high on the charts, starting at #10 and eventually selling over five million copies in the United States.

January 30, 1940 – January 17, 2014 Second Tenor, Brother in Song These concerts are dedicated to his memory 8

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Patrons & Sponsors The Orpheus Club

Ridgewood historical Society schoolhouse museum presents an outdoor concert by the Orpheus Club

Sunday, may 18, 2014 • 2:00 Pm

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*

650 East Glen Avenue (next to Old Paramus Reformed Church)

Mr. & Mrs. H. Ralph Kirby*** SuBScriBing MeMBerS Ms. Roberta A. M. Ragg**** Mr. Steven M. Steiner* Mr. Frank Strobl

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

Music for a Summer Evening

donorS

Bring your chairs and blankets

The Orpheus Club gratefully acknowledges the following members and friends who have made donations to the club:

for a free concert at

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ishkanaian Mr. James Matthews Mr. Thomas Ott Perry's Florist Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Price Mr. Phillip Raspe Mr. Ted Richter Mr. Phil Waxberg

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Badach Bank of America (Merrill Lynch) Mr. Edward Brouillard Ms. Margaret Budd Mr. Lee Cheringal Mr. Gregory Farrell Mr. Clifford Gerenz Dr. & Mrs. Barry Halejian

The Kasschau Shell Tuesday, July 8, 2014 • 8:30 Pm

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 Mr. & Mrs. Howard and Elizabeth Ostrow Ms. Marcia Perry

new Sheet MuSic contriBution

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Ms. Maja Britton Ms. Colleen Keating Ms. Alex Rainer-Meyer

H H congratulationS! Pete Bernich

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Mr. James Rash and Ms. Marcia Guthrie

Greg Farrell

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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 Shenandoah.....................................................................Traditional Chantey arranged by Marshall Bartholomew

Ain’t Judgin’ No Man .......................................John Parker and Greg Gilpin Home.............................................................Greg Holden and Drew Pearson arranged by Alan Billingsley ii

Londonderry Air ..........................................................................Traditional arranged by Stephen Hough In memory of Gene O’Connor

Early Morning Bathe………..............................................Benjamin Britten

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Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home..........................................................Harry Woods arranged by Benjamin S. Miller Matt Grippi, Charles Brown, Lou Fucito & James Matthews, tenor Sam Shaw & Dennis M. Steele, baritone Ted Richter & Bill Amazzini, bass Stodolé Pumpa...................................................................Czech Traditional arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw Charles Brown, tenor

Just the Way You Are...............................................Bruno Mars, Ari Levine Philip Lawrence, Khari Cain and Khalil Walton arranged by Christopher Peterson

Beyond the Sea ..............................................A. Lawrence and Charles Trenet arranged by Richard Lane v

Concertino Da Camera .............................................................Jacques Ibert I. Allegro con moto

Ron Levy, piano

Emmett Rapaport, saxophone 2014 Winner Roland L. Meyer Orpheus Club Scholarship

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In Flanders Fields .....................................John Jacobsen and Roger Emerson Text from the poem by Dr. John McCrae arranged by Roger Emerson World War I photos courtesy of England's Imperial War Museum and Belgium's In Flanders Field Museum.

Dottie Fucito, visual producer

Thanks Be to Thee ....................................................................G. F. Handel

The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard.............Benjamin Britten

James Matthews, tenor

The Arrow and the Song ...................................................Joseph M. Martin

My Fair Lady (Choral Selection).........Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

From Holiday Diary, Op. 5

arranged by Channing Lefebvre Dennis M. Steele, bass

Charlottown ....................................................................Southern Folk Song arranged by Chas. F. Bryan

Text from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

arranged by Clay Warnick 10

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ORPHeUS PROgRAm

ORPHeUS PROgRAm

Spring 2014

Spring 2014 there will be a fifteen-minute intermission.

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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 Shenandoah.....................................................................Traditional Chantey arranged by Marshall Bartholomew

Ain’t Judgin’ No Man .......................................John Parker and Greg Gilpin Home.............................................................Greg Holden and Drew Pearson arranged by Alan Billingsley ii

Londonderry Air ..........................................................................Traditional arranged by Stephen Hough In memory of Gene O’Connor

Early Morning Bathe………..............................................Benjamin Britten

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Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home..........................................................Harry Woods arranged by Benjamin S. Miller Matt Grippi, Charles Brown, Lou Fucito & James Matthews, tenor Sam Shaw & Dennis M. Steele, baritone Ted Richter & Bill Amazzini, bass Stodolé Pumpa...................................................................Czech Traditional arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw Charles Brown, tenor

Just the Way You Are...............................................Bruno Mars, Ari Levine Philip Lawrence, Khari Cain and Khalil Walton arranged by Christopher Peterson

Beyond the Sea ..............................................A. Lawrence and Charles Trenet arranged by Richard Lane v

Concertino Da Camera .............................................................Jacques Ibert I. Allegro con moto

Ron Levy, piano

Emmett Rapaport, saxophone 2014 Winner Roland L. Meyer Orpheus Club Scholarship

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In Flanders Fields .....................................John Jacobsen and Roger Emerson Text from the poem by Dr. John McCrae arranged by Roger Emerson World War I photos courtesy of England's Imperial War Museum and Belgium's In Flanders Field Museum.

Dottie Fucito, visual producer

Thanks Be to Thee ....................................................................G. F. Handel

The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard.............Benjamin Britten

James Matthews, tenor

The Arrow and the Song ...................................................Joseph M. Martin

My Fair Lady (Choral Selection).........Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

From Holiday Diary, Op. 5

arranged by Channing Lefebvre Dennis M. Steele, bass

Charlottown ....................................................................Southern Folk Song arranged by Chas. F. Bryan

Text from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

arranged by Clay Warnick 10

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Patrons & Sponsors The Orpheus Club

Ridgewood historical Society schoolhouse museum presents an outdoor concert by the Orpheus Club

Sunday, may 18, 2014 • 2:00 Pm

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*

650 East Glen Avenue (next to Old Paramus Reformed Church)

Mr. & Mrs. H. Ralph Kirby*** SuBScriBing MeMBerS Ms. Roberta A. M. Ragg**** Mr. Steven M. Steiner* Mr. Frank Strobl

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

Music for a Summer Evening

donorS

Bring your chairs and blankets

The Orpheus Club gratefully acknowledges the following members and friends who have made donations to the club:

for a free concert at

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ishkanaian Mr. James Matthews Mr. Thomas Ott Perry's Florist Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Price Mr. Phillip Raspe Mr. Ted Richter Mr. Phil Waxberg

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Badach Bank of America (Merrill Lynch) Mr. Edward Brouillard Ms. Margaret Budd Mr. Lee Cheringal Mr. Gregory Farrell Mr. Clifford Gerenz Dr. & Mrs. Barry Halejian

The Kasschau Shell Tuesday, July 8, 2014 • 8:30 Pm

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 Mr. & Mrs. Howard and Elizabeth Ostrow Ms. Marcia Perry

new Sheet MuSic contriBution

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Ms. Maja Britton Ms. Colleen Keating Ms. Alex Rainer-Meyer

H H congratulationS! Pete Bernich

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Mr. James Rash and Ms. Marcia Guthrie

Greg Farrell

10 yEARS

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

PETE BERNICH* BOB HUSBAND

MATT GRIPPI VERNON REED

Program Notes HERB COHEN* LOU FUCITO* BERNARD GREENFIELD JAMES M. MATTHEWS*

CHARLES CANALE JIM LATHEy ERIC SCHWARz TOM VEIT

JOSEPH ALU BOB CASPARIAN JOHN MCKEON TED RICHTER

Second tenor PAUL BERINATO**, Part Captain BILL DE BLOCK JOHN GALVIN CLIFF HOOK NEIL NEUBERT DAVID STRIFE Baritone DAVE KERR*, Part Captain RAy DEJONGHE* TOM OLSzEWSKI* SAM SHAW PHIL WAxBERG

Spring 2014 PETER FENzEL CLIFFORD GERENz JOE LISELLA* RICK SWANSON

GREG FARRELL* PHILLIP RASPE* GARy STARK BOB WESTERDAHL

BaSS EDWARD J. BROUILLARD**, Part Captain BILL AMAzzINI JEFFREy R. BERINATO* STEVEN FELL* ROGER JACOBSON TOM OTT JAMES W. RASH** VAN SCHNELLBACHER DENNIS M. STEELE

active – not Singing in thiS concert STEVE AMARANTE CHARLES AUSTIN* JAMES J. BELLOTTI*** DOMENICK PANFILE ED SEIDLER* HENRy TREPICCHIO* honorary MeMBer FRANK STROBL*** * Each star represents ten years of music making

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, and more. You will hear us sing about love, patriotism, faith and sorrow. You will also be enthralled by our scholarship winner, our soloists, and Ron Levy at the piano. Here is what’s on our musical menu this Spring.

Shenandoah Traditional, arranged by Marshall Bartholomew The murky origins of this well-known American folk song may lie with French voyageurs traveling the Missouri River and tells of one voyageur falling in love with the daughter of Shenandoah, an Algonquian chief. The song may have evolved into a chantey for sailors hauling on the ropes or raising an anchor Whatever the origin, the song did not make it into print until it was found in an article about “Sailor Songs” in 1882.

We find it a charming piece of Americana, and a moving piece of music; fun to sing and satisfying to hear.

Ain’t Judgin’ No man Words by John Parker, Music by Greg Gilpin Greg Gilpin is an award-winning choral composer and musician who has written for Broadway and the Disney studios. He teamed with songwriter John Parker for this rollicking gospel-style number loosely based on a verse from the Bible about looking to our own faults before denouncing the trespasses of others.

IN MEMORIAM

Home Words and music by Greg Golden and Drew Pearson, arranged by Alan Billingsley

Gene O’Connor

“Home” originated on the immensely popular “American Idol” television series, recorded by season 11 winner Phillip Phillipps. The song immediately hit high on the charts, starting at #10 and eventually selling over five million copies in the United States.

January 30, 1940 – January 17, 2014 Second Tenor, Brother in Song These concerts are dedicated to his memory 8

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In Flanders Fields Words by Dr. John McCrae, music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson, Arranged by Roger Emerson World War I which began 100 years ago. After weeks of treating the wounded and dying during the battle of Ypres, Dr. John McCrae, a Canadian physician and poet, wrote this poem about the poppies in the fields and the men buried beneath them. The poem was nearly lost, but became one of the most significant poems of the 20th Century. Its plea that the living take up the cause of those who have died has been used as recruitment for military service, but a contemporary analysis might also encourage honoring the dead by seeking an end to warfare so that those buried in Flanders fields might sleep in peace and that there be no need for more military graveyards.

The Ballad of Little musgrave and Lady Barnard Music by Benjamin Britten, words anon.

Benjamin Bitten (1913-1976) was an English-born composer whose work spanned all musical genres. This mini-opera, based on an ancient ballad, had its premiere when it was sung by Allied soldiers in a Nazi prison camp during World War II. A controversial figure in England at the time for having registered as a conscientious objector, Britten’s musical genius nevertheless made it impossible to ignore the artistry and scope of his work.

The Arrow and the Song Words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), music by Joseph M Martin.

This setting of a poem by Longfellow was written for the 100th anniversary of the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus and was first sung at our centennial concert in 2009. It has a simple message: An arrow flies and falls to earth; a song breathed into the air continues and brings blessing to the life of a friend. Composer Joseph Martin is director of sacred publications for Shawnee Press. He is recognized as an award-winning composer of choral music. The Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus is proud to have commissioned this piece for men who like to sing.

Paddlin’ madelin’ Home Music by Harry Woods, arranged by Benjamin Miller This song was first performed in 1925 by the vaudeville singer, Cliff Edwards, known as “Ukulele Ike” and has long been a standard for ukulele players (a fine instrument to take with you in a canoe). This arrangement is in the traditional and uniquely American style of barbershop quartet harmony and is dedicated to our own Madeline, the granddaughter of Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus pianist Ron Levy.

Stodelé Pumpa Traditional Czech folk song, arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw Some of us remember singing this tune around the campfire. The words are obscure, but generally understood as being translated “barn (water) pump.” The 14

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

Steven Fell

Thomas Olszewski

Clifford Gerenz Henry Trepicchio

NON-siNGiNG MeMBeRs

Walter White

Marcia Perry cOMMiTTee cHaiRMeN

Paul Berinato ..................................................................................................Music Peter Fenzel ...............................................................................................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 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 $19,000.00. 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 2014 Roland L. Meyer Orpheus Club Scholarship award of $2000.00 is Emmett Rapaport from Ridgewood. He is a senior at Ridgewood High School where he has been a member of the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Lab, Big Band, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, Saxophone Ensemble and the RHS Marching Band. He has also played in the pit orchestra for several school musical productions. He has been selected to the NJ Region I Symphonic Band, the NJ Region I Saxophone Ensemble, the NJ Region I Jazz Ensemble, the NJ All State Symphonic Band and the NJ All State Jazz Ensemble.

Congratulations and Good Luck, Emmett!

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:

song’s subject is a young girl named Elena, and our performance is dedicated to Elena Diaz, granddaughter of the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus music director, who is of Czech descent on her mother’s side.

Beyond the Sea Words by A. Lawrence, Music by Charles Trenet, arranged by Richard Lane Originally a pop song written in 1946; the 1959 version of “Beyond the Sea”

by Bobby Darin became one of the top hits of that year. Lawrence wrote songs for such artists as Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, the Andrews Sisters and Tony Bennett in a song-writing career that began in the 1930s.

This arrangement is by the late Richard Lane, a beloved composer, pianist and friend who was the Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus accompanist for 42 years. We honor his memory by presenting music that Dick wrote or arranged at each of our concerts.

Thanks Be To Thee

By G.F. Handel, arranged by Channing Lefebvre The music of this anthem is commonly attributed to Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), but the music has only been traced back to the late 19th Century.

The first to join the music to the text beginning “Thanks be to thee” appears to have been Siegfried Ochs (1858-1929). Since then, there have been many arrangements with wide variations in both music and lyric. Whatever the origin, the anthem is a work is stately and impressive, with a Handel-like dignity worthy of the composer buried in London’s Westminster Abbey.

Charlottown Southern Folk Song arranged by Chas. F. Bryan This may have been a work song sung on riverboats. Though heard throughout the American South, it might be referring to a great fire in the Canadian city of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1866. music from “my Fair Lady” by Frederick Lowe Words by Alan Jay Lerner One of the most beloved musicals of all time, “My Fair Lady” opened on Broadway in 1956 and set what was then the record for the longest run of any major musical production in history. Some of the stars, including Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway, took their roles into the 1964 movie version which starred Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle (with Marnie Nixon providing the singing voice). The movie won eight Academy Awards. The Lerner and Lowe songs contain all the romance, wit and drama that make for great theater and great music.

Program notes by Charles Austin

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Ten Years

PALISADES VIRTUOSI Our latest recording is now available:

New American Masters, Volume 5 CD is available from Amazon.com Or download from iTunes Margaret Swinchoski, flute • Donald Mokrynski, clarinet • Ron Levy, piano

SUMMER CONCERTS at the BOTANICAL GARDEN

Skylands

Join us on Friday nights at 6:30pm on the Concert Lawn. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.

Concerts move indoors in bad weather.

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

June 13 –James L Dean Band (Big Band)

RINGWOOD STATE PARK Morris Road • Ringwood, NJ

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June 27 – Sixteen String Band (Rock) July 11 – Loretta Hagen (Folk) July 25 – The Dalton Gang (Latin Jazz) August 8 – Rave On! (Oldies Rock) August 22 – No fuss & Feathers (Folk) 16

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 award-winning Palisades Virtuosi, resident chamber ensemble at Bergen Community College and the University of Hawaii. 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 ongoing affiliation with the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, and NJ PAC. Mr. Levy conceived two "mini-festivals" 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). Recently, Ron performed the inaugural concert of the new faculty recital series at MSU. He was joined by legendary clarinet virtuoso Stanley Drucker, and Ann Kim, solo cellist with the NY City Ballet. On November 29,2013 Ron presented a concert at Carnegie Hall, performing sixteen works written for him (including two for the Orpheus Club). A two-term President of the Professional Music Teachers' Guild of NJ, he is a contributing editor to BIM Music Publications, Switzerland. Recently Mr. Levy was appointed to the Board of the Rockland (NY) Symphony. Mr. Levy served on the jury of the The 2013 Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition. Recordings by Mr. Levy are available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch International, MMF and High Point labels.

We salute and thank Ron for his first 10 years as pianist for Orpheus.

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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.

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 in his 24th year as a singing veteran of the Orpheus Club and has been President along with several other leadership positions. For 25 years he has served 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 for Music Education. Jim is Vice President – Sales Development at Dittman Incentive Marketing in New Brunswick, NJ. 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 Christ Church Symphony Orchestra of Long Island, as solo concerto competition winner with the Hudson Symphony orchestra, and under the auspices of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

He has also served as a percussion instructor for InterSchool Orchestras of New York. He holds a BFA from St. Peter's College in Jersey City and a BA in Music from Kean University in Union.

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June 4th at 7pm Unitarian Society of Ridgewood 113 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ. Come and join us as we listen and watch Tom Morrison, Bill Short (Principal Bassoonist of the Met Opera), Nina Decesare, graduate student at Rice University, and Kayla Burggraf, graduate student at Manhattan School of Music. They will perform pieces by J.S. Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mozart, and more.

Dedicatd to Betty and Tom Terhune and Jack and Sue Morrison.

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Save the dateS! The annual Orpheus Club

Holiday Concerts Saturday, December 20, 2014 • 7:30 pm Sunday, December 21, 2014 • 4:00 pm Mark your calendars now so you won’t miss this delightful way to celebrate the season.

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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 (www.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 3

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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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ORPHEUS CLUB MEN’S CHORUS Presents its annual

CONGRATULATIONS Orpheus Club on your 105 Years of Music

Family Owned & Operated Since 1954 Walter Perry, Jr., Founder 660 Harristown Road Glen Rock, NJ 07452

Spring Concerts JOhn PalatuCCi**, Conductor James rash**, Assistant Conductor rOn levy*, Pianist Kenny medina, Percussion

105th SeaSon

Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:00 p.m.

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