{"id":2023,"date":"2021-05-24T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/?page_id=2023"},"modified":"2021-05-31T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:12:28","slug":"orpheus-male-choir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/?page_id=2023","title":{"rendered":"Orpheus Male Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Originally men from Calvary Memorial Choir and Bridgeport Evangelical Church choir (since R. A. MacGillivray was choir director at both churches), with friends from other churches, prepared a concert for Calvary Church in 1927.\u00a0 From that came the Orpheus Male Chorus somewhere in 1927.  (There are details missing or discrepancies between various sources.  It&#8217;s amazing actually.  One published books even says &#8220;Orpheus Male Choir, Kitchener, found 1917, merged into the Kitchener-Waterloo Philharmonic Choir, 1922-present&#8221;.  sigh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927-Orpheus-begins-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2025\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927-Orpheus-begins-777x1024.jpg 777w, http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927-Orpheus-begins-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1927-Orpheus-begins-768x1012.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The choir operated for 10 years before going dormant for 6 years, then ran for two more years before needing new leadership.  At that time it merged with the Schneider Male Chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conductors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1927 &#8211; 1933\/4: R. A. MacGillvray <\/li><li>1935 &#8211; 1937: W. R. Mason<\/li><li>1943 &#8211; 1946: Garfield Bender<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1929 &#8211; 1934: Miss Anna Hymmen<\/li><li>1935 &#8211; 1937: A. H. Heller<\/li><li>1943 &#8211; 1946: unclear, possibly A. H. Heller<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/1947-2-Outstanding-Male-Choirs-Will-Be-Fused-Copy_l-500x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2026\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1947-2-Outstanding-Male-Choirs-Will-Be-Fused-Copy_l-500x1024.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1947-2-Outstanding-Male-Choirs-Will-Be-Fused-Copy_l-147x300.jpg 147w, http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/1947-2-Outstanding-Male-Choirs-Will-Be-Fused-Copy_l-768x1572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The choir merged with the Schneider Male Chorus in 1947, since they were in need of a conductor and pianist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally men from Calvary Memorial Choir and Bridgeport Evangelical Church choir (since R. A. MacGillivray was choir director at both churches), with friends from other churches, prepared a concert for Calvary Church in 1927.\u00a0 From that came the Orpheus Male &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/?page_id=2023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2023\/revisions\/2036"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schneidermalechorus.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}