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The Orpheus Club is a men's singing club based in Philadelphia, the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania, United States, and is the oldest of its kind in the United States. It was founded on December 7, 1872, when twenty-two members performed at the Musical Fund Hall on Locust Street in Philadelphia. The club was first led by the American conductor Michael Hurley Cross (1833–1897), who was one of its original founders. Well over a century later, in 2012, the conductors of the group are John Shankweiler (Conductor) and Clyde R. Dengler, Jr. (Conductor Emeritus). The Orpheus club performs its Christmas, winter and spring concerts at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and at the Kimmel Center. Its Twelfth Night Revels performance is held at the Orpheus clubhouse on South Van Pelt Street each January. == History == The Orpheus Club of Philadelphia gave its first performance at the Musical Fund Hall in 1872. Its founders, including the conductor Michael Hurley Cross, had broken away from the old Abt Society in the summer of that same year. Article 11 of the club's charter reads: "(Orpheus Club's ) object shall be in the attainment of the greatest possible excellence in the performance of part songs for male voice." In the first season, 319 men were proposed and elected as associate members. Headquarters were in a room in the A.P.A. building at 1415 Locust Street. That location was soon abandoned, however, in favor of more satisfactory quarters at the northwest corner of 12th and Chestnut Streets, where meetings and rehearsals were held for five additional seasons. During the club's second season, in addition to three concerts at the hall owned by the Musical Fund Society, the club made its first appearance at the Academy of Music. Its members sang two works in a program marking the centennial of the Boston Tea Party on December 17, 1873. In May 1889, the club moved to the Academy of Music, having outgrown the capacity of the Musical Fund Hall. Subsequently, in 1928, after several moves, the male singing club settled permanently in the clubhouse that, as of June 2012, continues to exist at 254 South Van Pelt Street. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orpheus Club of Philadelphia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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